Pharnaceuni] lxvi. kicuide.e. 4 J 9 



suflFrutescent, scarcely a hand high, wholly violet-grey ; stems 

 numerous, decumbent-ascending ; leaves fleshy, almost terete, 

 like those of a Sedum, linear, rather obtuse, niuticous, glaucous, 

 rather purplish, bistipulate at the base, subaniplexicaul ; stipules 

 scarious, whitish ; warts on the foliage, and intlorescence some- 

 times plentiful, in other cases scarcely conspicuous or rai'e or 

 altogether absent ; flowers apetalous ; calyx prettily rosy or red, 

 the three inner segments smaller, more coralline, and not so 

 broadly membranous on the margin as the two outer ones; 

 stamens mostly 7, rarely more numerous, or in short-stalked 

 flowers only 1 ; anthers broadly oblong ; ovary 1 to 5-celled ; styles 

 3 or 5, recurved ; placentation axile ; seeds indefinite, pear-shaped. 

 At the base of the long rays of the umbel there are sometimes 

 1 to 3 almost sessile flowei's with a single effete stamen and an 

 abortive ovary. 



MossAMKDEs. — In sandy seaside situations near the town of Mossa- 

 medes, abundant ; fl. and fr. June and July 1859. No. 2381, and Coll. 

 Carp. 624. On the sands of the coast near Mossamedes : fl. July 1859, 

 fr. June 1860. Coll. Carp. 238. 



10. PSAMMOTROPHA Eckl. k Zeyh. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. i. p. 858. 



1. P. myriantha 8ond. in Harv. & Soncl. Fl. Cap. i. p. 147 (1860). 



Var. huillemis Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 593. 



HuiLLA. — A herb, at first sight seeming annual, but with a fleshy- 

 thickened perennial rootstock bearing a rosette of leaves at its apex ; 

 when young with quite the habit of an Andvosare ; stems weak, some- 

 times decumbent-ascending, in other cases almost erect, mostly rubicund: 

 branches thickened at the distant nodes ; leaves lanceolate, rather 

 fleshy, glaucous-lepidote, collected in half-whorls, rather flaccid ; 

 flowers apetalous, greenish ; calyx deeply 5-cleft : segments rather 

 obtuse, white-membranous at the margin, imbricate in aestivation ; 

 corolla 0: disk rudimentary; ovary pentagonal, 5-celled; cells 1-ovulate: 

 style firm ; stigmas 5, connivent in flower, soon radiate-patent; capsule 

 globose-pentagonal, 5-celled, 5-valved, foveolate-impressed at the apex, 

 angles rather acute ; cells 1 -seeded ; seeds globose, gi-anulated outside. 

 In sandy grassy thickets along the road from the lake Ivantala towards 

 Quilengues, near Lopollo andMonino, abundant ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. 

 No. 3417. 



I follow Oliver in referring this number as above, but its characters 

 are intermediate between those of P. nii/rHuithn Sond. and those of 

 P. (tudro.sarrn Fenzl in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. p. 265 (1840), and it might 

 be considered as a variety of the latter and older species ; in fact, the 

 two species are probably not distinct. 



11. GISEKIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. i. p. 859. 



1. G. pharnacioides L. Mant. PI. alt., p. 562 {GisecJiia) (1771); 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 593 (pharnaceoides). 



LoANDA. — An annual, prostrate, rather fleshy hei'b ; stems quadran- 

 gular, purplish, dichotomously or trichotomously branched, spreading 

 radiately over the ground, leaves opposite, rather fleshy, glaucous, 

 lanceolate, whitish-papillose beneath ; peduncles and pedicels brae- 



