Chenopodiimi] cii. chenopodiaceje. 899 



HuiLLA. — la places neglected after cultivation, about Lopollo, 

 plentiful, in company with Monsonia hiflora DC. (Welw. herb. no. 1606 ; 

 ante, p. 108) ; fl. and fr. Jan. and Feb. 1860. No. 6317. 



2. BETA Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 52. 

 1. B. vulgaris L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 222 (1753). 



B. ma/ritima L. Sp. PI., edit. 2, p. 322 (1762). £. procumbens 

 Sm. in Homem. Hort. Hafn. Suppl. p. 31 (1819) ; J. A. Schmidt, 

 Beitr. Fl. Cap Verd. p. 171 (1852). 



Cape de Vekde Islands. — In sandy places in the island of St. 

 Yincent ; fr. Jan. 1861. No. 6325. 



3. ATEIPLEX Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. iii. p. 53. 

 1. A. paludosa R. Br. Prodr. p. 406 (1810). 



Mossamedes. — A much branched undershrub or almost a shrub, 

 6 to 8 ft. high ; branches patent, elongated, subscandent ; leaves some- 

 what fleshy, whitish-lepidote. In bushy brackish places about Carooa, 

 about 13 miles distant from the ocean, plentiful, somewhat climbing 

 among Tamarix orientalis Forsk. (Welw. herb. no. 1086 ; ante, p. 65) 

 and Gymnosporia (cf. G. senegalensis Loesen. ; Welw. herb. nos. 1267 

 and 1362 ; ante, p. 145)- fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 6327. 



Our plant is dioecious, and agrees fairly well with the type specimens 

 of Brown's species in the National Herbarium. 



4. AE.THROCNEMUM Moq. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 65. 

 1. A. macrostaehyum Moris & Delporte in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 



4, ii. p. 377 (1854). 



Salicornia glauca Delile, Fl. Egypt Illustr. p. 49 (1812). 



5. macrostachya Moric. ¥1. Vinet. p. 2 (1820) ; Guss. Fl. Sic. p. 

 13. t. 4 (1829). A. frutiooaum, y. macrostaehyum, & glaiicwm, 

 Moq. Chenopod. Mon. Enum. p. 112 (1840). A. gtaucum Ung.- 

 Sternb. in Atti Congr. Bot. Firenze, p. 283 (1876). 



Ambeiz. — At the river Ongo (? 16 Nov. 1853), without fl. or fr. 

 Doubtfully referred to this species. No. 6330. 



LoANDA, ETC. — A deoumbent undershrub, remarkably gregarious, 

 partly constituting broad round tracts of the shore 6 to 20 fathoms in 

 diameter, intermixed with Salimum (ci. Welw. herb. an. 2382-2390); 

 stems prostrate, woody, scarcely jointed but nodulose ; branches and 

 branohlets opposite, erect; joints cylindrical, mostly J in. long, glaucous, 

 blood-red at the base and apex, blunt, emarginate ; spikes central on 

 the branchlets, an inch long, torulose, scarcely thicker than xj- in., 

 with joints xj- in. long, in old age dryly spongy ; seeds ellipsoidal, 

 irregularly trigonous, scarcely ^V i°- l°Dg> shortly beaked, chestnut- 

 brown, smooth. The seeds agree with this genus in respect of the 

 embryo. In sandy maritime places at the mouth of the river Sanga 

 (Mossul), and at Praia da Zamba grande to the south-west of Loanda, 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. end of Nov. 1853. No. 6331. 



This is probably the plant referred to as AJncHcumhyWeiwitsoh in 

 Ann. Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. No. 24 (May 1856), p. 253. n.24 ; he states 

 that it abounds in soda. 



Mossamedes. — A perennial, fleshy, green-purplish, densely csespitose 

 herb, the clumps hemispherical and 2 to 3 ft. in diameter. In gravelly 

 places near Boca de Giraul, very plentiful, in company with Cressa 

 eretica L. {ante, p. 724) ; fl. July 1859. No. 6328. 



