Trianthema] LXVI. FICOIDEA. 415 
ovary attenuate at the base, 1-celled, 2-ovuled ; style 1, erect, arising 
from the centre of the truncate apex of the ovary ; capsule turbinate, 
truncate, opening in a circumscissile manner; seeds 2, lenticular- 
subreniform, black, delicately furrowed on both sides, superposed, the 
lower one usually reduced or at least much smaller than the upper 
one. In gravelly hilly maritime places at Praia da Amelia, near the 
town of Mossamedes, among specimens of a leafless Euphorbia, 
abundant, fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 1090 and Cott. Carp. 237. 
Var. sedifolia. 
T. sedifolia Visiani, Pl. Aigypt. ac Nub. p. 19, t. 3, f. 1 (1836), 
in Spongia, Comm. Med. ii. p. 204 (Aug. 1836), Oliv., Jc. p. 588. 
MossaMEDES.— Always prostrate, rigid, brittle; leaves linear-oblong ; 
stamens purplish ; flowers greenish-yellow; calyx-lobes arched-conical ; 
petals 0 ; stamens 5, alternating with the calyx-lobes ; ovary 1-celled : 
style very shortly bifid-stigmatose at the apex, sometimes almost 
undivided ; capsule circumsciss. In hilly sandy maritime places near 
Praia da Amelia, rather rare ; fil. and fr. July 1859. No. 1089 and 
CoLu. Carp. 236. 
7. ORYGIA Forsk. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 856. 
1. 0. decumbens Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. p. 103 (1775) ; Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 589. 
Mossamepes.—A perennial herb; rhizome thick, woody ; stems 
decumbent-ascending, turning purple or rosy; leaves alternate, 
glaucous, rather fleshy ; capsule suggesting Caryophyllacee. By red 
sand-rocks near Boca do Rio Bero, rather rare : in advanced fr. with- 
out fi. July 1859. No. 2418. A long-rooted perennial herb; primary 
stem decumbent, as well as the branches whitish or purplish ; branches 
angular, brittle ; leaves rather fleshy, glaucous, elliptical, attenuate 
at both ends; calyx green with purple margins, 5-partite ; capsule 
almost as in Hypertelis E. Mey., 5-celled, 5-valved ; seeds reniform. 
In dry stony places near Ladeira dos Arrependidos between Mata dos 
Carpenteiros and Pdo, sparingly; fr. and late fl. June 1860. No. 24180. 
8. MOLLUGO L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 857. 
1. M. hirta Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap. (i.) p. 24 (1794). 
Glinus lotoides Loefl. It. Hisp. p. 145 (1758); Fenzl. in Ann. 
Wien. Mus. i. p. 357 (1838). M. Glinus A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 
p. 48 (1847); Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 590. 
Loanpa.—An annual much branched herb ; branches prostrate, 2 to 
A ft. long, spreading in a circle ; leaves rather wavy and more tomentose 
in dried-up swamps than in marshes. By nearly dried-up swamps and 
at the edges of lakes near Alto das Cruzas (also at the lake Quilanda 
in Zenza Do GoLuNGo), abundant; fl. and fr. beginning of Sept. 
1857. No. 2412. An annual, prostrate, hoary or softly shaggy herb ; 
anther-cells separate except their middle, where they are inserted on 
the filament by means of the narrow transverse connective. In a few 
flowers the calyx was hexamerous, with the interior segments quite 
petaloid pale-yellowish and ovate-lanceolate like the other segments. 
Staminodes bipartite. About swamps to the south of the city of 
Loanda, between Bemposta and Camama; fl. and fr. end of March 
1858. No. 2414. 
Barra DO Benco.—In muddy-sandy pastures flooded in summer, 
near Panda, by the river Bengo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853. 
