410 LXVI. FICOIDE&. [Tetragonia 
Loanpa.—An annual herb ; stems prostrate, branched to a great 
distance ; branchlets very crowded, ascending; leaves glaucescent, 
fleshy. Indigenous in New Zealand and Japan, etc., and cultivated 
occasionally in kitchen gardens at Loanda, where it was introduced by 
Welwitsch in 1853 and throve ; Museque of Senhor Antonio Lopez 
da Silva, Island of Loanda, August 1858, and Museque of Senhor 
Schut, March 1854. New Zealand spinach. No. 2378. 
3. AIZOON L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 854. 
1. A. mossamedense Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 584. 
MossamMeEpEs.—An annual herb, rather fleshy erect or in old age usually 
decumbent with repeated ramifications; leaves alternate ; flowers 
deep-yellow, without petals ; stamens about 50, inserted on the throat 
not at the bottom of the calyx; filaments purple, almost flattened ; 
styles 5; capsule 5-valved, 5-celled; seeds exactly reniform, brown- 
black, glossy, rather compressed, with one or two furrows along the 
back. In sandy-rocky parts of Serra de Montes Negros; fl. and fr. 
10 August 1859. No. 2380. A subpubescent branched rather fleshy 
annual herb, rather erect or prostrate-ascending ; calyx green outside, 
bright-yellow inside, in habit resembling a Sesuviwm ; capsule 5-celled, 
dehiscent with 5 valves each of which bears in the middle a small 
septum laying bare the central 5-winged column. In sandy maritime 
places, Praia da Amelia; fl. and fr. beginning of August 1859. 
No. 2880). An annual herb, at first erect, soon branching and pros- 
trate, rather fleshy papillose and glaucous-green throughout ; calyx 
deep-yellow inside ; stamens very numerous, in phalanges ; capsule as 
in Caryophyllaces. In sandy places by the sea near Praia da Amelia ; 
fl. and fr. July 1859. Cott. Carp. 117. 
The following No. may be mentioned here; it probably belongs 
to the same species or to .d. canariense L, :— 
MossaMEDES.—A subsucculent glaucous-green annual herb, branched 
from the base ; branches ascending ; branchlets corymbose ; petals 0 , 
stamens indefinite. In moist sandy places at the mouth of the river 
Bero, near Mossamedes, sparingly ; fl. July 1859. Only one young 
specimen gathered ; in June 1860 the same locality was searched in 
vain for more specimens. No. 1264. 
2. A. virgatum Welw., /.c. 
MossaMEDES.—An undershrub, woody at the base, 2 to 3 ft. high, 
brittle, erect ; stem weak, mostly oblique ; branches virgate-sarmentose, 
white-silky, elongated ; sarmentose branchlets subscandent or spreading 
horizontally among other plants; young parts and leaves brilliantly 
silvery-silky ; leaves strictly alternate; lateral flowers not rarely 
abortive or reduced, and the central sessile flower in the dichotomy of 
the cyme the only fertile one; calyx deeply 5-cleft, with ovate- 
lanceolate acuminate spreading segments, silky-pilose outside, naked 
and yellowish inside ; stamens indefinite, 50 to 60, inserted in rows at 
the middle or a little below the mouth of the calyx-tube ; filaments 
flattened at the base, filiform, acuminate, sometimes biseriate ; anthers 
oblong, with linear versatile cells ; petals 0, or very rarely represented 
by a few threads or by one antherless or occasionally by a 2- to 3-cleft 
filament: ovary free, inversely pyramidal, 5- or often 4-celled, 5- or 
4-angled ; cells 1- or 2-ovuled ; styles 5 or 4, spreading in a radiate 
manner, deflexed, densely papillose or rather stigmatose ; flowers 
axillary, arranged in little dichotomous cymes, shortly pedicellate, the 
