420 Lxvi. PicoiDE^. [Gisekia 



teate; calyx 5-partite, green outside, coralline inside, rosy; segments 

 imbricate, concave, connivent in a campanulate manner, persistent; 

 corolla 0; stamens 5, alternating with the calyx-segments, included; 

 filaments greatly dilated at the base, abruptly acuminate ; anthers 

 globose, erect, 2-celled ; ovaries 5, sessile, half-ovate, connivent, some- 

 what compressed, each bearing on the axile side the erect cylin- 

 drical whitish filiform style stigmatose at the apex ; carpels 5, distinct, 

 obovoid, somewhat compressed, muriculate especially on the back, 

 indehiscent, 1 -seeded ; seed obovoid, with a shining black testa. In 

 sandy maritime stations about the islands situate between the city of 

 Loanda and the mouth of the river Cuanza, as, for instance, the islands 

 of Loanda and Cazanga, abundant ; Cazanga island, fl. and fr. 14 March 

 1858. No. 2428. An annual, rather fleshy, prostrate herb ; leaves 

 opposite, rather fleshy, marked beneath with raised whitish lines, that 

 is, with very crowded adpressed setute, cartilaginous-serrulate on the 

 margin ; flowers greenish-rosy, apetalous, pentandrous ; carpels 5, dis- 

 tinct, membranous, crested-muriculate, utricle-like, monospermous. In 

 exposed sandy places by thickets near Teba, abundant ; fl. and fr. Jan. 

 and Feb. 1854. No. 2429. 



PuiSGO Andongo. — At the sandy banks of the river Cuanza, near 

 Candumba, between it and Muta-Lucala; fl. andfr. Jan. 1857. No. 2434. 



Var. pedunculata Oliv., I.e., p. 594. 



G. linearifolia Schum. & Thonn. in Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. 

 iii. p. 187 (1828). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A small, annual, pale, glaucous-green herb, 

 branched from the base ; stems prostrate ; branchlets ascending ; 

 flowers pale rosy, In exposed sandy damp places, among short 

 grasses, at the banks of the river Cuanza, near Muta-Lucala, abund- 

 ant ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 2430. 



HuiLLA. — Midrib of the leaves obsoletely pinnate ; flowers rosy, 

 pedicellate, not always in pedunculate umbels. In fields sown with 

 Sorghum and PeniciUaria, between Lopollo and Humpata : fl. and 

 scarcely ripe fr. Dec. 1859. No. 2432. 



Var. congesta Oliv., I.e., p. 594. 



G. congesta Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 28 (1849). 



Ambriz. — A usually annual herb, but with the copious spring rains 

 biennial ; stems prostrate ; leaves glaucescent, rather fleshy ; flowers 

 rosy. In exposed hilly places covered with sand, among short grasses, 

 not far from the sea, near the city of Ambriz, on the left bank of the 

 river Loge, sparingly ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 2436. 



Loanda. — A very slender, prostrate-ascending herb, with angular 

 stems. In sandy grassy places, not rarely flooded in summer, near 

 Penedo, in company with species of Boerhaavia ; fl. and fr. Jan. and 

 end of Feb. 1858. No. 2433. 



MosSAMEDES. — A very slender annual herb ; flowers in little heads 

 which are sessile in the forks of the stem and branches or terminal at the 

 tips of the ultimate branchlets and spuriously long-pedunculate, rosy. 

 In gravelly hilly places between the town of Mossamedes and Praia 

 da Amelia, very sparingly ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 2427. Near 

 Cazimba, with sparse herbage and with species of A triplex ; fl. and f r. 

 No. 2427?^. 



2. G. Miltus Fenzl Nov. Stirp. Dec. (x.) p. 86 (5 August 1839) ; 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 594. 



Miltus africana Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 302 (1790). 



