Volume 1
Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61.
- British Museum (Natural History) Department of Botany
- Date:
- 1896-1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Talinum] Island of St. Thomas—A herb in gardens, abundant ; fr. Dec. 1860. Apparently belonging to this species, or perhaps to T. crasst- folium Willd. Coll. Carp. 118. The following No., represented by a few poor specimens, perhaps belongs to the last species or rather to T. crassifolium Willd. :— Ambriz.—A herb almost suffruticose ; stem with quite patent branches ; leaves fleshy, lanceolate, quickly falling off in the course of drying. At the maritime rocks near Ambriz in the direction of Mossul, not uncommon ; fl. Nov. 1853, Welwitsch had occasion to tra- verse this region in rapid flight, under pursuit by the natives. No. 1096. XVIII: TAMARISCINEiE. These plants afford excellent firewood. 1. TAMARIX L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 160. 1. T. gallica L. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 270 (1753); Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 151. T. senegalensis DC. Prodr. in. p. 96 (1828). Cape de Yerde Islands.—Frequent in sandy maritime places and in gravelly places by the stream on Monte Yerde of the island of St. Vincent near Porto Grande, and near the village of Mindello forming little woods, which are called Taraffaes ; fl. and fr. August 1853. Native name “ Taraffa,” derived from the Arabic word “ Tarfa.” No. 1087. 2. T. orientalis Forsk. Fl. M5gypt.-Arab. p. 206. n. 29 (1775). T. articulata Yahl (1791); Oliv., l.c.; Ficalho, PI. IJt. p. 94 (1884). Mossamedes.—A small tree, 10 to 18 ft. high, rarely higher up to 25 ft., usually a shrub 4 to 7 ft. high and then branched from the base ; stems csespitose, purplish ; leaves glaucescent, sheathing, blade more or less blunt or reduced to a subulate apiculus ; flowers whitish or rosy; inflorescence of two forms, spicate and occasionally on the same plant solitary and axillary ; capsules all 3-valved ; very abundant, in sandy places by the banks of the rivers Bero and Maiombo, pene- trating far into the interior of the continent, usually covered with CassytJia, fl. and fr. end of June 1859. Called by the colonists “ Cedro.” Branches sometimes affected with galls, which cause strobiliform excrescences. 15° 8' S. Lat. No. 1086. Bumbo.—A tree, 25 ft. high ; sporadic, in little woods by the gravelly banks of streams, near Quitibe de Cima, at an elevation of about 1800 ft., in fl. without fr. at the beginning of June 1860. No. 10865. It was found in the southern part of Portuguese Guinea, at the mouth of the river Cunene, by Fernando da Costa Leal, and mentioned by the name of “ Cedros ” in his Travels. It is called “ 1N ’ cedro ” by the negroes. XIX. ELATINEiE. 1. BERGIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 163. 1. B. polyantha Soncl. in Linnsea xxiii. p. 16 (1850). nrM'nSAMiPESfi annu:i^ herb, with the appearance of an Anagallis ia ierot a Polycmpa; stems subterete, cmspitose, purple, prostrate ; anc jes opposite ; leaves opposite, glaucescent, rather fleshy, very deli- o \ and distantly denticulate towards the apex ; stipules 2, white,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120486_0001_0089.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
