422 LXVI. FICOIDEZ. [Limeum 
orange to brown (perhaps not quite ripe), nearly smooth or very 
minutely granulated, the sides convex and remotely ribbed, the ribs 
more raised towards the margin. In a sandy-gravelly place near the 
sea-coast at Sacco de Giraal, only one plant seen, in mid-winter, in 
company with a species of Cressa L. ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 2420. 
In gravelly maritime places by the mouth of the river Caroca near 
Cabo Negro ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 2420. The whole plant, 
even in the living state, tinged with a yellow or orange colour ; stems 
prostrate, spreading in a circle. In very dry sandy places near Qui- 
pola, about three miles distant from the sea, sparingly ; fl. and fr. 
August 1859. No. 2421. 
2. L. glomeratum Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. Pl. Afr. (ii) p. 288 
(Jan. 1836). 
L. Meyeri Fenzl in Ann. Wien. Mus. i. p. 342 note (18364) ; 
Oliv., Z.c., p. 596. : 
Hviiia.—A prostrate, annual or biennial herb, spreading diffusely ; 
stems greenish-yellow, tenacious; leaves grass-green, somewhat 
glaucous and fleshy ; petals 3 in some cases, obovate-cuneate, clawed ; 
stamens 7, all fertile ; anthers yellow. In fields on a sandy-clay soil, 
between Lopollo and Humpata ; fl. and ripe fr. Dec. 1869. No. 2422. 
3. L. linifolium Fenzl, /.c. ; Oliv., Je. 
MossaMEDES.—An annual prostrate glaucescent herb; stems 
branched at the apex, brittle; leaves rather fleshy ; calyx whitish 
with green nerves. In sandy places by Mata dos Carpenteiros with 
Tamarix orientalis Forsk. and Euclea pseudebenus E. Mey., and at the 
banks of the river Bero near Cavalheiros ; very scarce ; fl. and fr. 
August and end of June 1859. No. 2425. 
Var. polygonoides (Welw. ex) Oliv., Le. p. 596. 
L. argute-carinatum Wawra ex Wawra & Peyr in Sitz. Akad. 
Wien, xxxviii. p. 563 (1860). 
MossaMeDeEs.—An annual herb, prostrate, glabrous and highly 
glaucous throughout, dichotomously branched, brittle in the living 
state, at least when old, very much so in the dry state, pretty on 
account of its glaucous bloom and milk-white corymbs, in habit re- 
sembling a species of Polygonum ; sepals milk-white, green-glaucous 
along the acute keel, subcucullate-apiculate at the apex, very broadly 
membranous on the margin; petals always present, usually 2 or 1, 
narrowly spathulate, 3 to 2 as long as the sepals, very tender, milk- 
white ; stamens usually 7; style rather long, bifurcate at the apex or 
in some cases deeply so, fugacious; cocci elevato-hemispherical, 
blackish, tenacious, all over except their excavated base beset with 
short conical obtuse straight tubercles, always shorter than the sepals. 
In sandy places along the banks of the river Bero near Cavalheiros, 
among short herbage, 6 to 8 miles distant from the sea, not abundant ; 
fl. and fr. June and July 1859. No. 2424. 
The following No. should be compared with this species :— 
Punco ANDONGO.—A very slender erect annual herb, 3 in. high ; 
stem filiform, a little branched in the upper part ; leaves alternate ; 
flowers very small. In a moist pasture on the right bank of the river 
Cuanza, in company with species of Isoétes and Drosera; only one 
specimen in fl. bud, 22 Feb. 1857. No. 6751. 
