Gisekia] lxvi. fic'OIDE.«. 421 



PuN(to Andongo. — An annual prostrate herb ; stem and leaves 

 mostly blood-red ; flowers white. In sandy, sparingly grassy places 

 on the right bank of the river Cuanza, near Sausamanda, abundant ; 

 fl. and fr. 7 Feb. 1857. No. 2431. 



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



Giesekia asj)era Kl. in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. (i.) p. 130 (18G2). 



M()SSA>rETiES. — A prostrate annual herb, much branched from the 

 root, dichotomous ; calyx bright-rose inside, pale-rose outside. In 

 moist sandy places by Bocca do Rio Bero, sporadic ; fl. and fr. end of 

 July 1859. No. 2435. A diffuse annual herb, much branched from 

 the base, with red flowers (calyx). In sandy places at the borders of 

 Mata dos Carpenteiros, in company with Tanuirix or/entalU Forsk., etc., 

 sparingly ; fl. and fr. August 1H50. No. 2435/^. An annual herb, 

 branched from the base ; stems and branches prostrate ; leaves fleshy, 

 glaucous-pruinose, obovate or oblong or even linear-elliptical ; flowers 

 very prettily rosy ; petals ; stamens 11 or 12 ; carpels 5 to 7. In damp 

 sandy places at the mouth of the river Bero ; fl. and fr. end of 

 June 1859 ; also 4 weak specimens at Praia da Amelia, in company 

 with G. liharnacioides L., var. com/csta Oliv. No. 2437. 



12. LIMEUM L. ; Benth. A: Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p, 859. 



1. L. viscosum Fenzl Nov, Stirp. Dec. (x.) p. 87 (5 August 

 1839) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 595. 



MossAMEDES. — A small inelegant annual herb, glandular-viscid 

 throughout ; stems diffuse or oblique ; br;inches orange-coloured ; 

 flowers greenish ; sepals with broad margins ; cocci plane-convex, 

 scrobiculate on the back. In dry gravelly places at the dried-up 

 banks of the river Bero and along the sea-coast near Praia da Amelia ; 

 fl. and fr. end of June 1859. No. 2419. 



HuiLLA. — Rootstalk thick, deeply penetrating the soil, giving off 

 several prostrate-ascending angular stems. In fields sown with a 

 species of PeiikiUaria, near Lopollo, scarce ; fl. and fully ripe fr. 

 Jan. 1860. A form or variety less glandular than the type. 

 No. 2423. 



Var. hispidulum (Welw. ex) Oliv., I.e., p. 596. 



MossAMKDES. — The whole plant, especially the stems and branches 

 beset with rather rigid straight patent hyaline hairs glandular at the tip, 

 hispidulous, slightly stinging ; stems prostrate, ascending at the apex, 

 1 to 2 ft. long ; flowers rather small, arranged in lax long-pedunculate 

 corymbs terminal on the branchlets. In sandy-gravelly places with 

 sparse herbage along the banks of the river Bero, not at all abundant, 

 perhaps more frequent in the summer ; fl. and fr. July 1859. 

 No. 2426. 



Var. leiocarpum Oliv., I.e., p. 596. 



MossAMEDES. — An annual, prostrate-ascending herb, covered all 

 over with short straight hairs glandular at the tip, puberulous ; leaves 

 narrowly oblong-lanceolate ; petiole rather long : calyx densely 

 glandular ; sepals without nerves, broadly membranous on the 

 margins, obtuse ; petals usually wanting but occasionally 1 or 2, 

 lanceolate, very acute and fugacious because very tender ; stamens in 

 most cases 7 ; style short, ^bifurcate from the middle ; cocci hemi- 

 spherical, shorter than the sepals, one of them usually abortive, from 



