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BOTANY OP FERNANDO NOEONHA. 67 



Caryopsis obovata, basi angustata, obtuse trigona brevissime 

 apiculata rufa punctata. 



Main island, high up on the Peak and in clefts in the rock of 

 Chaloupe Bay ; no. 7. 



Cypeetts distans, L. f. Suppl. p. 103 ; Jacq. Ic. PI. Bar. ii. 

 p. 8, t. 299 ; C. B. Clarice in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxi. p. 144. 



Plentiful by the edges of the roads near the Peak in the 

 cultivated district. 



Distribution. The whole of the tropical world. 



feeax, Rich, in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat 



f ce in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xx. p. 2! 



ferox, Schrad. : Nees in Mart. Fl. B 



Dicli- 





Common in the central district with the last, but much more 

 abundant ; Sambaquichaba, Leao, Tangle Bay, &c. 

 Distribution. Common in South America. 



C ligtjlaeis, L. Am. Acad. v. p. 31 ; Sp. PI. p. 70 ; Boeclc. Cyp. 

 Serb. Berol. ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xx. p. 196. 



Tangle Bay, and the field below the curral near Cotton-tree 

 Bay and Leao. Not so common as the last. Abundant on Eat 

 Island ; forming large tufts. 



Distribution. All warm parts of America from Florida to 

 Bio de Janeiro, also west Tropical Africa and Madagascar. 



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FlMBEISTYLIS DIPHYLLA, Vahl. 



Scattered about on the main island, on the hill above Chaloupe 

 Bay, at East Point near the curral, and at Leao, mostly along the 







dry spots. At Morro 



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Sciepus MiCEASTHUS, Vahl. — Hemicarpha isolepis. 



In the fields below the Peak and round San Antonio Fort, in 

 waste ground. 



Distribution. All tropical countries. It is a common weed in 

 the garden paths in Pernambuco, and has doubtless been intro- 

 duced accidentally into Fernando Noronha. 



Biiynchospoba MiCRANTHA, Vahl, Enum. ; Boeclc. Cyp. Kerb. 

 Berol. p. 768.— Dichromena micrantha, Kunth, Enum. p. 278. 



On the hill between Chaloupe Bay and S. Antonio Bay, on the 

 paths through the maize-fields in the Sapate, and near the Peak. 



Distribution. West Indies, Guatemala, Brazil, West Africa, 





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