420 LXVI. FICOIDEE. [Gisekia 
teate; calyx 5-partite, green outside, coralline inside, rosy; segments 
imbricate, concave, connivent in a campanulate manner, persistent; 
corolla 0; stamens 5, alternating with. the calyx-segments, included; 
filaments greatly dilated at the base, abruptly acuminate; anthers 
globose, erect, 2-celled ; ovaries 5, sessile, half-ovate, connivent, some- 
what compressed, each bearing on the axile side the erect cylin- 
drical whitish filiform style stigmatose at the apex ; carpels 5, distinct, 
obovoid, somewhat compressed, muriculate especially on the back, 
indehiscent, 1-seeded ; seed obovoid, with a shining black testa. In 
sandy maritime stations about the islands situate between the city of 
Loanda and the mouth of the river Cuanza, as, for instance, the islands 
of Loanda and Cazanga, abundant ; Cazanga island, fl. and fr. 14 March 
1858. No. 2428. An annual, rather fleshy, prostrate herb ; leaves 
opposite, rather fleshy, marked beneath with raised whitish lines, that 
is, with very crowded adpressed setule, cartilaginous-serrulate on the 
margin ; flowers greenish-rosy, apetalous, pentandrous ; carpels 5, dis- 
tinct, membranous, crested-muriculate, utricle-like, monospermous. In 
exposed sandy places by thickets near Teba, abundant ; fl. and fr. Jan. 
and Feb. 1854. No. 2429. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—At the sandy banks of the river Cuanza, near 
Candumba, between it and Muta-Lucala; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 2484. 
Var. pedunculata Oliv., J.c., p. 594. 
G. linearifolia Schum. & Thonn. in Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. 
iii. p. 187 (1828). 
Pungo ANDOoNGO.—A small, annual, pale, glaucous-green herb, 
branched from the base; stems prostrate ; branchlets ascending ; 
flowers pale rosy, In exposed sandy damp places, among short 
grasses, at the banks of the river Cuanza, near Muta-Lucala, abund- 
ant ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 2430. 
Hu1Lita.—Midrib of the leaves obsoletely pinnate ; flowers rosy, 
pedicellate, not always in pedunculate umbels. In fields sown with 
Sorghum and Penicillaria, between Lopollo and Humpata: fl. and 
scarcely ripe fr. Dec. 1859. No. 2432. 
Var. congesta Oliv., U.c., p. 594. 
G. congesta Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 28 (1849). 
AmpBriz.—A usually annual herb, but with the copious spring rains 
biennial ; stems prostrate ; leaves glaucescent, rather fleshy ; flowers 
rosy. In exposed hilly places covered with sand, among short grasses, 
not far from the sea, near the city of Ambriz, on the left bank of the 
river Loge, sparingly ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 2436. 
Loanpa.—A very slender, prostrate-ascending herb, with angular 
stems. In sandy grassy places, not rarely flooded in summer, near 
Penedo, in company with species of Boerhaavia ; fl.and fr. Jan. and 
end of Feb. 1858. No. 2438. 
MossamMEbDEs.—A very slender annual herb ; flowers in little heads. 
which are sessile in the forks of the stem and branches or terminal at the 
tips of the ultimate branchlets and spuriously long-pedunculate, rosy. 
In gravelly hilly places between the town of Mossamedes and Praia 
da Amelia, very sparingly ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 2427. Neaz 
er ie sparse herbage and with species of Atriplex ; fl. and fr. 
0. ; 
2. G, Miltus Fenzl Nov. Stirp. Dec. (x.) p. 86 (5 August 1839) ; 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, ii. p. 594. 
Miltus africana Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 302 (1790). 
