414 Lxvi. ficoidejE. [ffalimum 



Var. reduplicatum (Welw. ms. in Herb). 



MossAMEDES. — A prostrate fleshy glaucous-green annual herb, 

 branched from the base, sometimes scarcely 2 in. long, in other cases 

 quasi-scandent among shrubs almost 3 to 4 ft. long ; leaves lanceolate, 

 rather rigid, mostly turning purple or dark-red, the blade folded back 

 along the length of the midrib or occasionally contorted ; flowers as 

 in HaVtmum^ purple ; styles 2. In moist sandy places at the base of 

 Serra dos Montes Negros, about 6 to 8 miles from the sea ; also at 

 the banks of the river Bero ; fl. and fr. 10 Aug. 1859. No. 2391. 

 Styles 2. In rather elevated hilly sandy places between Cazimba and 

 Caroca, near Cabo Negro, in company with Tumhoa Bainesii Hook, f., 

 sporadic ; fl. and fr. beginning of Sept. 1859. No. 2388. 



Var. Welwitschii. 



MosSAMEDES. — An annual biennial or triennial herb, glaucescent, 

 sometimes prostrate with stems of a few inches, in other cases sub- 

 scandent among shrubs with a much-branched stem of 4 ft. ; flowers 

 rose-purple ; calyx-sinuses cornuate outside ; styles 2, elongated, erect 

 from an ascending base. In sandy thickets at the banks of the river 

 Bero near Cavalheiros, in company with an amphibious species of 

 Mars'dea ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 2392. In the hot sand along the 

 banks of the river Mai6mb6 ; fl. and fr. 12 Oct. 1859. No. 2394. 



Var. angustifolium (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. App. iii. p. 74 

 (April 1897)). 



Diplochonium sesuvioides Wawra & Peyr. in Sitz. Akad. Wien, 

 xxxviii. p. 564 (1860). 



Benguella. — An annual or biennial herb, branched from the base, 

 at first rather erect and corymbosely branched, soon with lateral 

 divaricate very patent branches ; stems and older branches mostly 

 yellowish-white, purplish when young ; branches always dichotomous ; 

 leaves rather fleshy, flat, glaucous-green, sometimes linear-filiform or 

 linear or almost linear-lanceolate, acute, in other cases broader and 

 exactly lanceolate ; flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, bright-rosy inside; 

 calyx-lobes gradually and much acuminate, more so than usual in species 

 of Hcdimum ; sinuses folded into cornua outside; ovary 2-celled; styles 

 2, elongated, straight or ascending ; capsule 2- or rarely 1-celled ; seeds 

 helix-shaped, dull, transversely and roughly rugose on both sides. In 

 bushy sandy maritime places along the sides of streams between the 

 river Cotumbella and the rivulet Cavaco near the city to Benguella ; 

 fl. and fr. June 1859. No. 2393- 



MossAMEDES.— Flowers rosy. In sandy stony places along the banks of 

 the river Maiombo, at Pao, in company with Phyllanthus mossamedejisis 

 Welw. and a species of Lobelia ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 2395 



6. TRIANTHEMA Sauv., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. i. p. 855. 



1. T. crystallina Vahl, Symb. Bot. i. p. 32 (1790); Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. ii. p. 587. 



MosSAMEDES. — An annual, prostrate, rather glabrous herb ; stem 

 slender, brittle, weak, whitish-green or bright-purple, dichotomously 

 or trichotomously branched, occasionally furnished with minute 

 papillae ; leaves rather fleshy, sometimes turning purple, falling off 

 in course of drying ; stem-leaves spathulate ; floral-leaves obovate- 

 ellipsoidal or suborbicular ; calyx rosy inside, 5-cleft ; lobes arched- 

 subulate ; corolla ; stamens 5, alternating with the calyx-lobes ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers orange-coloured, rather broadly didymous ; 



