Gisekia] LXVI, FICOIDEA, 421 
Punco ANDoNGO.—An annual prostrate herb; stem and leaves 
mostly blood-red ; flowers white. In sandy, sparingly grassy places 
on the right bank of the river Cuanza, near Sansamanda, abundant ; 
fi. and fr, 7 Feb. 1857. No. 2431. 
Var. pedunculata Oliv., Jc, p. 594. 
Giesekia aspera Kl, in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. (i.) p. 136 (1862). 
Mossamepes.—A prostrate annual herb, much branched from the 
root, dichotomous ; calyx bright-rose inside, pale-rose outside. In 
moist sandy places by Bocca do Rio Bero, sporadic ; fl. and fr. end of 
July 1859. No. 2435. A diffuse annual herb, much branched from 
the base, with red flowers (calyx). In sandy places at the borders of 
Mata dos Carpenteiros, in company with Tamarix orientalis Forsk., etc., 
sparingly; fl. and fr. August 1859. No. 2435d. An annual herb, 
branched from the base ; stems and branches prostrate ; leaves fleshy, 
glaucous-pruinose, obovate or oblong or even linear-elliptical ; flowers 
very prettily rosy ; petals 0 ; stamens 11 or 12 ; carpels5 to 7. In damp 
sandy places at the mouth of the river Bero; fl. and fr. end of 
June 1859 ; also 4 weak specimens'at Praia da Amelia, in company 
with G. pharnacioides L., var. congesta Oliv. No. 2437. 
12. LIMEUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 859. 
1. L. viscosum Fenzl Nov. Stirp. Dec. (x.) p. 87 (5 August 
1839) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 595. 
MossaMepEs.—A small inelegant annual herb, glandular-viscid 
throughout ; stems diffuse or oblique ; branches orange-coloured ; 
flowers greenish ; sepals with broad margins; cocci plane-convex, 
scrobiculate on the back. In dry gravelly places at the dried-up 
banks of the river Bero and along the sea-coast near Praia da Amelia ; 
fl. and fr. end of June 1859. No. 2419. 
Hovit1a.—Rootstalk thick, deeply penetrating the soil, giving off 
several prostrate-ascending angular stems. In fields sown with a 
species of Penicillaria, near Lopollo, scarce; fl. and fully ripe fr. 
Jan. 1860. A form or variety less glandular than the type. 
No. 2423. 
Var. hispidulum (Welw. ex) Oliv., ic. p. 596. 
MossaMEepEs.—The whole plant, especially the stems and branches 
beset with rather rigid straight patent hyaline hairs glandular at the tip, 
hispidulous, slightly stinging ; stems prostrate, ascending at the apex, 
1 to 2 ft. long ; flowers rather small, arranged in lax long-pedunculate 
corymbs terminal on the branchlets. In sandy-gravelly places with 
sparse herbage along the banks of the river Bero, not at all abundant, 
perhaps more frequent in the summer; fl. and fr. July 1859. 
No. 2426. 
Var. leiocarpum Oliv., .c., p. 596. 
MossamMepes.—An annual, prostrate-ascending herb, covered all 
over with short straight hairs glandular at the tip, puberulous ; leaves 
narrowly oblong-lanceolate; petiole rather long; calyx densely 
glandular; sepals without nerves, broadly membranous on the 
margins, obtuse ; petals usually wanting but occasionally 1 or 2, 
lanceolate, very acute and fugacious because very tender ; stamens in 
most cases 7; style short, ;bifurcate from the middle ; cocci hemi- 
spherical, shorter than the sepals, one of them usually abortive, from 
