MoUtigo] Lxvr. ficoide^e. 417 



Calumbo. — A lierl), apparently annual or biennial ; stems prostrate, 

 spread out in a stellate manner. In rich muddy-sandy pastures flooded 

 in summer, by dried-up pools between Bemposta and Camama by the 

 road towards Calumbo, fl. al)undant ; fl. and fr. July 1854. No. 1110- 



3. M. nudicaulis Lam. Eiuvcl. Meth. iv. p. 234 (1795-96); 

 Oliv., I.e., p. 591. 



M. hellidifolia Ser. in DC. Prodr. i. p. 391 (1824); Welw 

 Apont. p. 591, 11. 101. 



Am imiz.— Habit of an Alismu ; radical leaves rather fleshy, patent, 

 subglaucescent ; filaments subulate ; seeds globose-compressed, uni- 

 angular ; testa crustaceous, granulated, brown-black. In damp culti- 

 vated places and sandy thickets around negro villages, near Quizembo' 

 fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 2396. 



LoANDA. — An annual herb ; leaves radical, rosulate, green, rather 

 fleshy ; scapes rather erect, smooth, mostly turning red, primary 

 branches 4, all the branches furnished at the ba§e with a white 

 scarious bract ; calyx 5-parted nearly to the base, segments concave, 

 keeled, obtuse, reddish outside, white inside : stamens usually 3, rarely 

 4, very rarely G ; stigmas 3, sessile, horizontally divaricate, broadly 

 lanceolate, whitish, very delicately fringed. In fields formerly 

 cultivated, abundant where found, but almost every year appearing in 

 another spot, in fertile places flooded in summer ; fl. chiefly from Oct. 

 to the end of June ; near Penedo, 27 Dec. 1857. No. 23'97. At the 

 well close to Welwitsch's house in the middle of the town of Loanda ; 

 fl. and fr. Nov. 1860. No. 2397^. 



Cazengo. — Annual in hot rather dry sparingly grassy places and in 

 rocky places, at the river Luinha, fairly abundant though in but few 

 spots ; both young and old plants together ; about 1200 ft. altitude ; 

 fl. and fr. Dec. 1854. No. 2398 and Coll. Carp. 621. 



Amb.\ca. — At the muddy bank, almost dried up, of the river Caringa; 

 fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 2399. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An erect annual herb, 3 to 5 in. high ; leaves 

 radical, rosulate, obovate-spathulate ; flowers white, small. In places 

 • formerly cultivated near Canguerasange ; fl. and fr. Aug. 1857. Coll. 

 Carp. 622. 



PuxGO Andongo. — In rocky places near Cabondo in the fortress ; 

 sporadic ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1857. No. 2400. 



4. M. Cerviana Ser. in DO. Prodr. i. p. 392 (1824) ; Oliv., I.e. 



Amuriz. — A very slender plant, growing after the fashion of a 

 SjKrgnla. glaucous-purplish on its stems and leaves : radical leaves 

 narrowly linear, never spathulate ; umbels sessile ; flowers whitish. In 

 fields between Ambriz and Mubango, near the latter place, in spots 

 flooded in summer ; fl. and fr. Nov. 185.'}. No. 2404. 



Barra do Dandk. — A very elegant little plant, representing in 

 tropical Africa Erophiln jirorox DC. ; radical leaves rosulate, glaucous ; 

 flowers whitish. In fields on sandy clay between Barra do Dande and 

 Barra de Lifune, abundant ; fl. and fr. beginning of Nov. 1853. 

 No. 2401. 



Loanda. — Stems shining, smooth, mostly reddish, capillary, usually 

 when old very intricately intermixed ; radical leaves obovate or 

 spathulate, glaucous, rather fleshy : stem-leaves verticillate, 3 to 7 

 together in each whorl : flowers greenish-purple outside, whitish 

 inside ; seeds reniform, fuscous-red. In damp sandy places, and also 

 in quite dry places, above the city of Loanda, near country houses 



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