Ghara] ciiAEACEiE (A. Braun). 323 



dried up in winter, between Mossamedes and Cavalheiros ; a rare 

 plant ; July 1859. No. 497. 



PtTNGO Andongo. — Common in a salt stream in Sobato de Dungo, 

 not far from Quitage ; in company with Ruppia ; end of March 1857. 

 No. 492. 



2. C. brachypus A. Br. in Hook. Jouni. Bot. 1849, p. 298 ; in 

 Berlin. Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Dec. 1867, p. 939. 



LoANDA. — ^Excessively fragile ; obscure green during life, and 

 growing not in thick crops (as is usual with Charas) but in isolated 

 tufts. Not uncommon at the margins of rain-water ponds near 

 QuicAxe in the plain of Loanda ; beginning of May 1854. No. 494. 



3. C. gynmopus A. Br. Sohweiz. Charac. p. 23 in Schweiz. 

 Gesellsch. Neue Denkschr. x. 1849 {nomen); in Berlin. Monatsber. 

 Preuss. Akad. Dec. 1867, p. 942. 



Var. angolensis A. Br. Fragmente Monogr. Charac. edid. 

 Nordstedt in Berlin. Akad. Abhandl. 1882, p. 191. 



C. angolensis A. Br. in Berlin. Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. 

 Dec. 1867, p. 943. 



Baeea do Bengo. — Not uncommon in the barely salt waters of the 

 great lake of Quisequele below Quifandongo at the mouth of the river 

 Bengo ; Dec. 1853., No. 493. 



Mossamedes. — In small quantity mixed with C. fwtlda var. 

 subinermis in small slowly running streams quite dried up in winter, 

 between the town of Mossamedes and Cavalheiros ; July 1859. 

 No. 497. 



