Halimuin\ lxvi. ficoide^. 413 



genus ; seeds black, glossy. On the sea-sands of Praia de San Thiago ; 

 fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. The specimens were lost in crossing the river 

 Bero. 



LoANDA.— A glaucescent herb, the whole plant, but especially the 

 stems, turning red, annual but somewhat shrubby ; stems diffuse, 2 to 

 4 ft. long, dichotomously branched, arranged in a circle ; leaves linear, 

 thick, very glaucous, tleshy, brittle, pale-green ; flowers deep-violet or 

 purplish ; calyx-lobes densely papillose and green outside, rosy inside ; 

 styles 3 or 4, filiform ; capsule pyramidal, truncate at the apex. In 

 gravelly sea-sands of the island of Loanda in company with Siui'vola 

 Lobelia L. (Welw. Herb. No. 1137) ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853, July 1854, 

 and 12 June 1858 ; island of Cazanga to the south of Loanda ; fl. and 

 fr. 30 April 1854 and Oct. 1854. Abundant. No. 2386. A perennial 

 plant, well worth cultivating ; stems deep purple-red, prostrate in a 

 circle ; leaves semicylindrical, fleshy glaucous ; flowers rosy, usually 

 rather large. In sandy places in the island of Loanda ; fr. Feb. 1858. 

 Coll. Carp. 160. 



2. H. congense O. Kuntze, I.e. {Halimus congensis) (1891). 

 Sesuvium congense Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 58G. 



Ambriz. — A very rigid low almost suffruticose herb, with the 

 habit of a Mesembryanthemum, very much and diffusely branched 

 from the base, prostrate ; branches cylindrical, tortuous, minutely 

 papillose as well as the branchlets; shoots ascending, subsecund; leaves 

 fleshy, linear or nearly worm-shaped, strongly involute on the margin, 

 green-glaucescent, fasciculate-crowded; flowers small, subsessile, bright- 

 rosy inside ; petals ; stamens numerous ; hd of the capsule conical- 

 umbonate. In rocky places and in gravel in mountainous places along 

 the estuary of the river On^o in Mossul, near Ambriz, abundant ; fl. 

 and fr. Nov. 1853. Collected in flight under pursuit by a party of 

 Mossul negroes. No. 2382. 



3. H. mesembriantliemoides. 



Sesuvium mesembrianthemoides Wawra in Wawra & Peyr. in 

 Sitz. Akad. Wien, xxxviii. p. 564 (1860). *S'. cri/stcdlinum Welw. 

 ex Oliv., I.e. Halimus crystallinns O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. 

 p. 263 (1891). 



MossAMEDES. — A prostrate suffruticose herb, perennial or sometimes 

 apparently annual, forming large clumps, the whole plant in the living 

 state densely covered with rather large watery-glassy papilla;, very 

 beautiful in the manner of Mesemhrijanthemum ci-i/fifall/nitm L. ; stem 

 cylindrical, jointed ; leaves opposite, fleshy, terete, marked with one 

 furrow on the upper face, hoary-papillose, and thus appearing verj- 

 glaucous ; petioles short, sheathing the stem ; flowers deep-rosy inside: 

 styles 4 ; capsule 4-celled ; seeds helix-siiaped. In sandy gravelly 

 situations along the seashore near Mossamedes, very abundant ; fl. and 

 fr. beginning of July 1859. No. 2389. 



The following No. is doubtfully referred here : — 



Mossamedes. — A succulent green minutely papillose herb, with the 

 habit of this genus or of Portulacaceaj. In sandy places at the sea- 

 side, near Cabo Negro ; not yet in fl. Sept. 1859. No. 2387. 



4. H. sesuvioides O. Kuntze, I.e. (Halimus sesuviodes) (1891). 

 JJiplochoniiim sesuvioides Fenzl, Nov. Stii'p. Dec. (vii) p. 58 



(30 June 1839). Sesuvium digynmn Welw. ex Oliv, I.e. 



