414 LXVI. FICOIDEZ. [Halimum . 
Var, reduplicatum (Welw. ms. in Herb). , 
MossaMEDES.—A prostrate fleshy glaucous-green annual herb, 
branched from the base, sometimes scarcely 2 in. long, in other cases 
quasi-scandent among shrubs almost 3 to 4 ft. long ; leaves lanceolate, 
rather rigid, mostly turning purple or dark-red, the blade folded back 
along the length of the midrib or occasionally contorted ; flowers as 
ir Halimum, purple ; styles 2. In moist sandy places at the base of 
Serra dos Montes Negros, about 6 to 8 miles from the sea; also at 
the banks of the river Bero; fl, and fr. 10 Aug. 1859. No. 2391., 
Styles 2. In rather elevated hilly sandy places between Cazimba and 
Caroca, near Cabo Negro, in company with Tumboa Bainesii Hook. f., 
sporadic ; fl. and fr, beginning of Sept. 1859. No. 2388. 
Var. Welwitschii. 
MossaMEDES.—An annual biennial or triennial herb, glaucescent, 
sometimes prostrate with stems of a few inches, in other cases sub- 
scandent among shrubs with a much-branched stem of 4 ft.; flowers 
rose-purple ; calyx-sinuses cornuate outside; styles 2, elongated, erect 
from an ascending base. In sandy thickets at the banks of the river 
Bero near Cavalheiros, in company with an amphibious species of 
Marsilea ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 2392. In the hot sand along the 
banks of the river Maiombd ; fl. and fr. 12 Oct. 1859. No. 2394. 
Var. angustifolium (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. App. iii. p. 74 
(April 1897)). 
Diplochonium sesuvioides Wawra & Peyr. in Sitz. Akad. Wien, 
xxxvili. p. 564 (1860). 
BENGUELLA.—An annual or biennial herb, branched from the base, 
at first rather erect and corymbosely branched, soon with lateral 
divaricate very patent branches; stems and older branches mostly 
yellowish-white, purplish when young ; branches always dichotomous ; 
leaves rather fleshy, flat, glaucous-green, sometimes linear-filiform or 
linear or almost linear-lanceolate, acute, in other cases broader and 
exactly lanceolate ; flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, bright-rosy inside; 
calyx-lobes gradually and much acuminate, more so than usual in species 
of Halimum ; sinuses folded into cornua outside; ovary 2-celled; styles 
2, elongated, straight or ascending ; capsule 2- or rarely 1-celled ; seeds 
helix-shaped, dull, transversely and roughly rugose on both sides. In 
bushy sandy maritime places along the sides of streams between the 
river Cotumbella and the rivulet Cavaco near the city to Benguella ; 
fl, and fr. June 1859. No. 2393. 
MossaMEDES.— Flowers rosy, In sandy stony placesalong the banks of 
the river Maismbé, at Pdo, in company with Phyllanthus mossamedensis 
Welw. and a species of Lobelia ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 2395 
6. TRIANTHEMA Sauv., L.; Benth. & Hook. f. i, p. 855. 
1. T. crystallina Vahl, Symb. Bot. i. p. 32 (1790); Oliv. Fl. 
Trop. Afr. i. p. 587. 
MossaMEDES.—An annual, prostrate, rather glabrous herb; stem 
slender, brittle, weak, whitish-green or bright-purple, dichotomously 
or trichotomously branched, occasionally furnished with minute 
papille ; leaves rather fleshy, sometimes turning purple, falling off 
in course of drying ; stem-leaves spathulate ; floral-leaves obovate- 
ellipsoidal or suborbicular ; calyx rosy inside, 5-cleft ; lobes arched- 
subulate ; corolla 0; stamens 5, alternating with the calyx-lobes; 
filaments filiform ; anthers orange-coloured, rather broadly didymous ; 
