Tillcea] xlvii. crassulace^e. 325 



Pungo Andongo.— An annual, erect, succulent, flaccid, branched 

 herb, with the habit of Scleranthus, 2 in. high ; leaves opposite, 

 sheathing-amplexicaul at the base, fleshy, linear-lanceolate, compressed, 

 rather obtuse or almost truncate and 1-2-denticulate at the apex, 

 sub-denticulate and narrowly cartilaginous-translucent at the margin, 

 lepidote-glaucescent, erect-spreading ; flowers small, solitary, axillary, 

 very shortly pedunculate, tetramerous or pentamerous ; calyx-segments 

 erect, acuminate, succulent, green ; petals whitish, very thinly mem- 

 branous, lanceolate, much acuminate, a little shorter than the calyx ; 

 stamens shorter than the petals ; carpels 4 or 5, mucronulate ; hypo- 

 gynous glands obsolete or rarely 4 or 5, very small, capitate, pedunculate. 

 Rather rare but in masses in sandy-earthy moist situations, usually 

 flooded in the rainy season, by the side of streams near Oatete and 

 Muxillo ; fl. and fr. 24 Dec. 1856. No. 2476. 



2. T. subulata Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 658 in obs. ; 

 Britten, I.e., p. 387. 



Thysantha subulata Hook. Ic. t. 590 (1843). 



Huilla. — A perennial herb, rather succulent, dwarf, with the habit 

 of a Paronychia ; rhizome tuberculif erous ; stem rather fleshy, ascending 

 or nearly erect ; branches opposite ; branchlets erect or ascending, leafy ; 

 leaves verticillate-fasciculate, cylindric-subulate, fleshy ; flowers axil- 

 lary, pentamerous ; calyx green ; petals herbaceous-green, lanceolate, a 

 little exceeding the calyx, apparently connate at the base ; stamens 5, 

 shorter than the petals ; ovaries 5, erect, unilocular. In black earth in 

 the cracks of rocks, Serra de Oiahoia, near Humpata, seen only in one 

 spot ; fr. and few fl. beginning of April 1860. No. 2478. 



Var. (?) illecebroid.es (Welw. ms. in Herb.). 



A glabrous herb, 1 to 3 in. high, with the habit of an Illecebrum, 

 from an apparently perennial root much branched ; lower branches 

 spreading decumbent and rooting near the base, then as well as 

 the upper branches ascending or erect, leafy ; internodes short ; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, opposite, connate at the base, forming a 

 narrow ring round the stem or branch, more or less acute at the 

 apex, rather fleshy, glaucous-green or marked with reddish spots, 

 with narrowly winged whitish margins, xg- to A in. long ; flowers 

 quasi-axillary, in opposite very abbreviated about 2-flowered axil- 

 lary cymes usually shorter than the leaves, pentamerous, about 

 j- 1 ^ in. long ; peduncles minute or obsolete ; pedicels very short or 

 minute, thickened towards the apex ; sepals lanceolate, acute, not 

 taper-pointed ; petals rather or scarcely shorter than the sepals, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, connate at the base ; stamens rather 

 shorter than the petals ; filaments filiform, inserted on the short 

 corolla-tube ; ovaries erect, unilocular, 2-ovuled ; carpels 2-1-seeded. 



Huilla. — In elevated rocky situations among the mountains of 

 Morro de Monino, amidst moss, at about 5500 ft. altitude ; fl. and fr. 

 March and end of Feb. 1860. No. 2477. 



Doubtfully distinct specifically from the last species, with which 

 Britten had united it. 



2. CRASSUIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 657. 

 1. C. abyssinica A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 309 (1847); Britten 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Air. ii. p. 388. 



