410 Lxvi. FicoiDE^. [Tetragonia 



LoANDA. — An annual herb ; stems prostrate, branched to a great 

 distance : branchlets very crowded, ascending ; leaves glaucescent, 

 fleshy. Indigenous in New Zealand and Japan, etc., and cultivated 

 occasionally in kitchen gardens at Loanda, where it was introduced by 

 Welwitsch in 1853 and throve ; Museque of Senhor Antonio Lopez 

 da Silva, Island of Loanda, August 1858, and Museque of Senhor 

 Schut, March 1854. New Zealand spinach. No. 2378. 



3. AIZOON L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 854. 



1. A. mossamedense Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 584. 

 MossAMEDES. — An annual herb,rather fleshy erect or in old age usually 



decumbent with repeated ramifications ; leaves alternate ; flowers 

 deep-yellow, without petals ; stamens about 50, inserted on the throat 

 not at the bottom of the calyx ; filaments purple, almost flattened ; 

 styles 5 ; capsule 5-valved, 5-celled ; seeds exactly reniform, brown- 

 black, glossy, rather compressed, with one or two furrows along the 

 back. In sandy-rocky parts of Serra de Montes Negros ; fl. and fr. 

 10 August 1859. No. 2380- A subpubescent branched rather fleshy 

 annual herb, rather erect or prostrate-ascending ; calyx green outside, 

 bright-yellow inside, in habit resembling a Sesuvium ; capsule 5-celled, 

 dehiscent with 5 valves each of which bears in the middle a small 

 septum laying bare the central 5-winged column. In sandy maritime 

 places, Praia da Amelia ; fl. and fr. beginning of August 1859. 

 No. 2380?>. An annual herb, at first erect, soon branching and pros- 

 trate, rather fleshy papillose and glaucous-green throughout ; calyx 

 deep-yellow inside ; stamens very numerous, in phalanges ; capsule as 

 in Caryophyllacese. In sandy places by the sea near Praia da Amelia ; 

 fl. and fr. July 1859. Coll. Carp. 117. 



The following No. may be mentioned here ; it probably belongs 

 to the same species or to -4. canariense L. : — 



MossAMEDES.^A subsucculent glaucous-green annual herb, branched 

 from the base : branches ascending ; branchlets corymbose ; petals , 

 stamens indefinite. In moist sandy places at the mouth of the river 

 Bero, near Mossamedes, sparingly ; fl. July 1859. Only one young 

 specimen gathered ; in June 1860 the same locality was searched in 

 vain for more specimens. No. 1264. 



2. A. virgatum Welw., I.e. 



Mossamedes. — An undershrub, woody at the base, 2 to 3 ft. high, 

 brittle, erect ; stem weak, mostly oblique ; branches virgate-sarmentose, 

 white-silky, elongated ; sarmentose branchlets subscandent or spreading 

 horizontally among other plants ; young parts and leaves brilliantly 

 silvery- silky ; leaves strictly alternate ; lateral flowers not rarely 

 abortive or reduced, and the central sessile flower in the dichotomy of 

 the cyme the only fertile one : calyx deeply 5-cleft, with ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate spreading segments, silky-pilose outside, naked 

 and yellowish inside ; stamens indefinite, 50 to 60, inserted in rows at 

 the middle or a little below the mouth of the calyx-tube ; filaments 

 flattened at the base, filiform, acuminate, sometimes biseriate ; anthers 

 oblong, with linear versatile cells ; petals 0, or very rarely represented 

 by a few threads or by one antherless or occasionally by a 2- to 3-clef t 

 filament : ovary free, inversely pyramidal, 5- or often 4-celled, 5- or 

 4-angled ; cells 1- or 2-ovuled ; styles 5 or 4, spreading in a radiate 

 manner, deflexed, densely papillose or rather stigmatose ; flowers 

 axillary, arranged in little dichotomous cymes, shortly pedicellate, the 



