Mollugo| LXVI, FICOIDEA. 417 
CaLumBo.—A herb, apparently annual or biennial ; stems prostrate, 
spread out in a stellate manner. In rich muddy-sandy pastures flooded 
in summer, by dried-up pools between Bemposta and Camama by the 
road towards Calumbo, fl. abundant ; fl. and fr. July 1854. No. 1110. 
3. M. nudicaulis Lam. Encycl. Méth. iv. p. 234 (1795-96) ; 
Oliv., ic. p. 591. 
M. belhkdifolia Ser. in DC. Prodr. i. p. 391 (1824); Welw 
Apont. p. 591, n. 101. 
AmBriz.—Habit of an Alisma ; radical leaves rather fleshy, patent, 
subglaucescent ; filaments subulate; seeds globose-compressed, uni- 
angular ; testa crustaceous, granulated, brown-black. In damp culti- 
vated places and sandy thickets around negro villages, near Quizembo: 
fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 2396. 
Loanpa.—An annual herb ; leaves radical, rosulate, green, rather 
fleshy ; scapes rather erect, smooth, mostly turning red, primary 
branches 4, all the branches furnished at the base with a white 
scarious bract ; calyx 5-parted nearly to the base, segments concave, 
keeled, obtuse, reddish outside, white inside ; stamens usually 3, rarely 
4, very rarely 6; stigmas 3, sessile, horizontally divaricate, broadly 
lanceolate, whitish, very delicately fringed. In fields formerly 
cultivated, abundant where found, but almost every year appearing in 
another spot, in fertile places flooded in summer ; fl. chiefly from Oct. 
to the end of June ; near Penedo, 27 Dec. 1857. No. 2397. At the 
well close to Welwitsch’s house in the middle of the town of Loanda; 
fl. and fr. Nov. 1860. No. 23978. 
CazeENGO,—Annual in hot rather dry sparingly grassy places and in 
rocky places, at the river Luinha, fairly abundant though in but few 
spots ; both young and old plants together ; about 1200 ft. altitude ; 
fl. and fr. Dec. 1854. No. 2398 and Cott. Carp. 621. 
AmpBaca.—At the muddy bank, almost dried up, of the river Caringa; 
fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 2399. 
Gottnco ALTo.—An erect annual herb, 3 to 5 in. high ; leaves 
radical, rosulate, obovate-spathulate ; flowers white, small. In places 
formerly cultivated near Canguerasange ; fl. and fr. Aug. 1857. Co... 
Carp. 622. 
Puneo ANpongo.—In rocky places near Cabondo in the fortress ; 
sporadic ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1857. No. 2400. 
4. M. Cerviana Ser. in DC. Prodr. i. p. 392 (1824); Oliv., Lc. 
AmBriz.—A very slender plant, growing after the fashion of a 
Spergula, glaucous-purplish on its stems and leaves ; radical leaves 
narrowly linear, never spathulate ; umbels sessile ; flowers whitish. In 
fields between Ambriz and Mubango, near the latter place, in spots 
flooded in summer ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 2404. 
Barra DO DanpE.—A very elegant little plant, representing in 
tropical Africa Erophila preecox DC. ; radical leaves rosulate, glaucous ; 
flowers whitish. In fields on sandy clay between Barra do Dande and 
Barra de Lifune, abundant; fl. and fr. beginning of Nov. 1853. 
No. 2401. ‘ 
Loanpa.—Stems shining, smooth, mostly reddish, capillary, usually 
when old very intricately intermixed ; radical leaves obovate or 
spathulate, glaucous, rather fleshy ; stem-leaves verticillate, 3 to vi 
together in each whorl; flowers greenish-purple outside, whitish 
inside ; seeds reniform, fuscous-red. In damp sandy places, and also 
in quite dry places, above the city of Loanda, near country houses 
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