Halimum|] LXVI. FICOIDEE. 413 
genus ; seeds black, glossy. On the sea-sands of Praia de San Thiago ; 
i‘ and fr. Sept. 1853. The specimens were lost in crossing the river 
ero. 
Loanpa.—A glaucescent herb, the whole plant, but especially the 
stems, turning red, annual but somewhat shrubby ; stems diffuse, 2 to 
4 ft. long, dichotomously branched, arranged in a circle ; leaves linear, 
thick, very glaucous, fleshy, brittle, pale-green ; flowers deep-violet or 
purplish ; calyx-lobes densely papillose and green outside, rosy inside ; 
styles 3 or 4, filiform ; capsule pyramidal, truncate at the apex. In 
egravelly sea-sands of the island of Loanda in company with Scwvola 
Lobelia L. (Welw. Herb. No. 1137); fl. and fr. Dec. 1853, July 1854, 
and 12 June 1858 ; island of Cazanga to the south of Loanda; fl. and 
fr. 30 April 1854 and Oct. 1854. Abundant. No. 2386. A perennial 
plant, well worth cultivating ; stems deep purple-red, prostrate in a 
circle ; leaves semicylindrical, fleshy glaucous ; flowers rosy, usually 
rather large. In sandy places in the island of Loanda ; fr. Feb. 1858. 
CoLu. Carp. 160. 
2. H. congense O. Kuntze, l.c. (Halimus congensis) (1891). 
Sesuvium congense Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 586. 
AMBRIZ.—A very rigid low almost suffruticose herb, with the 
habit of a Mesembryanthemum, very much and diffusely branched 
from the base, prostrate; branches cylindrical, tortuous, minutely 
papillose as well as the branchlets; shoots ascending, subsecund; leaves 
fleshy, linear or nearly worm-shaped, strongly involute on the margin, 
green-glaucescent, fasciculate-crowded; flowers small, subsessile, bright- 
rosy inside ; petals 0 ; stamens numerous ; lid of the capsule conical- 
umbonate. In rocky places and in gravel in mountainous places along 
the estuary of the river Oncgo in Mossul, near Ambriz, abundant ; fl. 
and fr. Nov. 1853. Collected in flight under pursuit by a party of 
Mossul negroes. No. 2382. 
3. H. mesembrianthemoides. 
Sesuvium mesembrianthemoides Wawra in Wawra & Peyr. in 
Sitz. Akad. Wien, xxxviii. p. 564 (1860). 3S. erystallinum Welw. 
ex Oliv., lc. Halimus crystallinus O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen, Pl. i. 
p. 263 (1891). 
MossaMEDES.—A prostrate suffruticose herb, perennial or sometimes 
apparently annual, forming large clumps, the whole plant in the living 
state densely covered with rather large watery-glassy papille, very 
beautiful in the manner of Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. ; stem 
cylindrical, jointed ; leaves opposite, fleshy, terete, marked with one 
furrow on the upper face, hoary-papillose, and thus appearing very 
glaucous ; petioles short, sheathing the stem ; flowers deep-rosy inside; 
styles 4; capsule 4-celled; seeds helix-shaped. In sandy gravelly 
situations along the seashore near Mossamedes, very abundant ; fl. and 
fr. beginning of July 1859. No. 2389. 
‘The following No. is doubtfully referred here :— 
MossaMEDES.—A succulent green minutely papillose herb, with the 
habit of this genus or of Portulacacee. In sandy places at the sea- 
side, near Cabo Negro ; not yet in fl. Sept. 1859. No, 2387. 
4. H. sesuvioides O. Kuntze, /.c. (Halimus sesuviodes) (1891). 
Diplochoniwm seswrioides Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Dec. (vii) p. 58 
(30 June 1839). Sesuviwm digynum Welw. ex Oliv. 1c. 
