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variety aggregata; but in Chaloupe Bay, where it was very 

 luxuriant, there was a form with conical heads nearly an inch 

 in length, which is doubtless the variety longespicata of Seubert 

 in Mart. El. Bras. v. n. 226. 





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Chejtopodittm aothelmintictjm, L. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 220 ; Moq. 

 in DO. Prodr. xiii. 2. p. 73 ; Fenzl in Mart. Fl. Bras. v. p. 150. 



Cultivated as a medicinal plant in many of the gardens, and 

 escaped thence in several places. 



Basella. alba, L. Gen. PL n. 382 ; Jacq. Fclog. t. 161. 

 Occurred as a garden- weed in the Governor's garden and also 





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Riviwa ljeyis, L. Mant. p. 41 ; Lam. 111. t. 81. fig. 2 ; J. A. 

 Schmidt in Mart. Fl. Bras. xiv. 1. p. 335. 



Common everywhere on the main island and also on Bat 

 Island, where the plants formed shrubs. The flowers of this 

 form were white, the berries at first orange-yellow, after red. On 

 the slopes towards the sea at Tobacco Point was another form 

 with reddish stems and pinkish flowers. 



Distribution. Common all over Tropical America ; very plentiful 

 at Pemambuco. 





ETTPHORBIACE^. 



Euphobbia comosa, Veil. Fl. Flum. 1. 15 ; Boiss. in DC. 

 . 2. p. 66 : Muell.-Ara. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xi. 2. t>. 693. 



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It is called "Alvelose," and used medicinally. 



Distribution. Brazil only ? chiefly known from the south. 



E. PiLULiFERA, L. Am cen. Acad. iii. p. 114 ; Boiss. in DC 

 Prodr. xv. 2. p. 21 ; Jacq. Ic. i. t. 478 ; Muell.-Arg. in Mart. Fl* 

 Bras. xi. 2. p. 184.— E. hirta, L. Amcen. Acad. iii. p. 114.— E. capi- 



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and near Tangle Bock. A common prostrate weed. 



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