Aizoon] LXVI. FICOIDE&. 411 
capsule ob-pyramidal, truncate at the apex, 5- or 4-celled, with 5 or 4 
rather thick spongy valves ; cells 1- or 2-seeded ; seeds pendulous from 
the central column, which is thickened at the apex, compressed-reniform, 
half surrounded by the rather long funicle, estrophiolate. In a moist 
sandy place at the border of a forest along the banks of the river 
Maiombé, near Péo, among short bushes, in company with species of 
Lobelia, Heliotropium and Phyllanthus, sparingly ; fl. and young fr. 
Oct. 1859. No. 1113. 
4. GALENIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 854. 
1. G. africana L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 359 (1753); Oliv. Fl. Trop. 
Afr. ii. p. 585. 
Var. pentandra. 
Leaves oblanceolate-linear, ranging up to 1 in. long by 3 in. 
broad ; stamens mostly only 5. 
MossaMEpDES.—An erect very rigid shrubby herb, or a hard-woody 
little shrub, 1 to 2 ft. high, branched in a cespitose-divaricate manner ; 
leaves opposite or congested pseudo-verticillate, rather fleshy, viscid, 
pale-green, folded-reflexed at the apex ; flowers dichotomously corym- 
bose ; calyx green-yellowish outside, rather rosy inside, with 1, 2, or 4 
bracteoles, and with 5 rather obtuse hooded lobes obtusely tuberculate 
on the back ; stamens 5, alternating with the calyx-lobes ; filaments 
filiform ; anthers didymous ; ovary sessile, obovoid, 2-celled, cells 1- or 
rarely 2-ovuled ; styles 2, erect-spreading, central, stigmatose a long 
way down the inner side ; capsule membranous, turbinate, when fully 
ripe opened down to the base into 2 valves, almost always 1-seeded in 
consequence of one cell becoming abortive or reduced and the septum 
disappearing to a great extent or adhering to the wall of the capsule ; 
seed pyriform, quite black, longitudinally densely and deeply furrowed, 
the lines of the furrows very delicately punctulate. In rocky sparingly- 
bushy places along the right bank of the river Bero, at Boca do Bero, 
rather rare; in late fl. and fr. June 1859. No. 1093. An ascending 
or nearly erect undershrub, perhaps only biennial ; stems and branches 
opposite, with a whitish bark; leaves rather fleshy, pale-green ; flowers 
white. On maritime sand-rocks between Cabo Negro and Mossamedes, 
sparingly ; not yet in good fl. 4 Sept. 1859. Apparently a young state 
of No. 1093. No. 1092. 
The admission of this variety necessitates the enlargement of 
the characters of the genus to include isostemonous flowers. 
5. HALIMUM Loefl. It. Hisp. p. 191 (1758); non Halimus 
P. Browne(1756). Portulacastrwm Loefl,, U.c.,p. 106. Sesuviwm L. 
(1759) ; Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 855. 
1. H. Portulacastrum O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. p. 263 
(Halimus) (1891). 
Portulaca Portulacastrwum L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 446 (1753). 
Sesuvium Portulacastrum L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, ii. p. 1058 (1759) ; 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 585. 
Ampriz.—The whole plant blood-red-purple ; stems decumbent, 1 to 
4 ft. long ; flowersrosy. In grassy maritime sandy places at the mouth 
of the river Loje, near Ambriz, very abundant ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. 
and 1857. No. 2883. 
