416 LXVI. FICOIDEZ. [Mollugo 
No. 2415. A succulent prostrate annual herb. On sandy somewhat 
salt gravel by the lake Quisequella ; in fl.-bud, Dec. 1853. Only one 
specimen found, apparently belonging to this species. No. 1265. 
MossaMEDES.—An annual prostrate herb, branched from the base. 
In damp sandy places near the banks of the river Bero, abundant ; fl. 
and fr. July 1859. No.2418. White-tomentose, by pools nearly dried 
up, near Cavalheiros ; fl. June 1860. No. 24130. Branches prostrate, 
spreading in a stellate manner, clothed with a snow-white felt, as are 
also the leaves, which are very much nerved on the back. In sandy 
muddy places by dried-up pools along the banks of the river Caroca 
near Cabo Negro ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 2416. 
Var. virens (Fenzl, i.c., p. 353; Oliv., Zc, p. 590). 
Pungo AnDoNGO.—A prostrate herb; stems elongated, with ram- 
bling branches, 2 to 3 ft. long. By a nearly dried-up swamp between 
Condo and Quisonde, in a wooded place ; fl. and fr. end of March 
1857. Only one plant seen ; all the specimens were mutilated by oxen 
rushing to the swamp in search for water ; they all had uniform leaves, 
of the same size and shape, from the top to the bottom. No. 1111. 
2. M. oppositifolia L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 89 (1753); Trimen, FI. 
Ceyl. ii. p. 271 (1894). 
M. Spergula WL, Syst. Nat., edit. 10, ii. p. 881 (1759) ; Oliv. de. 
Loanpa.—A herb apparently lasting for several years but certainly 
also annual; root rather thick, fleshy-woody, descending vertically, 
giving off numerous divisions from its crown; stems very numerous, 
branched, prostrate, spreading in a circle, ascending at the apex; leaves. 
herbaceous-green, but little fleshy ; flowers greenish ; calyx-segments 5, 
obtuse, keeled, erect; corolla 0; stamens included, 8; filaments 
filiform ; anthers oblong-rectangular, 2-celled ; cells linear, separate 
except in the middle where they are joined by the connective and 
inserted on the filament ; ovary triquetrous, turgid, included ; stigmas 3, 
sessile, diverging ; capsule 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved; seeds. 
numerous, subreniform, fuscous-red, marked in rows with minute 
dense raised points or tubercles, scarcely strophiolate, balf-surrounded 
by a white funicle. By rain-pools drying up at the time, near Alto 
das Cruzes, abundant, fl. and fr. April 1854 ; at the pond (repressa), 
Museque de Luis Gomes, fl. and fr. Aug. 1854. No. 1109. An annual 
herb, with the habit of a Cerastium or Alsine; stems numerous, 
filiform, sparingly dichotomous, furrowed, shortly pilose, 4 to 9 in. 
long, erect or ascending-erect ; whorls of the rather fleshy bright-green 
leaves distant ; peduncles whorled, capillary, } to 2 in. long, erect in 
flower, nodding in fruit; flowers from white to greenish; calyx- 
segments thickly and acutely keeled ; filaments 3, 4, or 5, subulate, not. 
short ; capsule elongated-ellipsoidal, deeply 3-furrowed, crowned with 
3 stigmas ; seeds turgid. Around rain-pools on clay among short grass 
near Museque de Luis Gomes, in the southern plain above Loanda, very 
abundant, but seen in only one locality; fl. and fr. 10 Jan. 1858. 
Not seen in 1853 or 1854. No. 2409 and CoLL. Carp. 623. By 
dried-up pools near Museque do Senhor Schut above Loanda ; fl. and 
fr. June 1854. Rather small specimens. No. 24090. 
Barra Do BenGo.—An annual, prostrate-diffuse herb. In muddy 
places previously flooded at the banks of the river Bengo near: 
Quifandongo, sparingly ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 1071. 
Barro vo DanpE.—An annual herb, with the habit of a Cerastium ; 
at the edges of pools along the right bank of the river Dande, near 
Bombo, sparingly : fl. and fr. end of Sept. 1858. No. 1112. 
