268 MESSRS. T. А. SPRAGUE AND J. HUTCHINSON ON 
Cape Verde Islands and Senegambia to Abyssinia southward to Ngamiland 
and German South-West Africa :— 
Cape Verde Islands: San Antonio, Bolle! St. Jago; rare, growing in 
the shade, valley of St. Domingo, Hooker, 177! without precise locality, 
Lowe! St. Paul; Ribeira das Pombas, Lowe! Senegambia: margins of palm 
forests on Cape Verde Peninsula, Perrotet, 4! from the environs of Malka, 
loger! Galam, Heudelot ! Cayor ; Laybar, Leprieur! Togoland: Sokodi- 
Basari, Kersting, 676! Soudan: Djenne, Chevalier, 3078! Djur-land : 
‘Great Seriba Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2445! Kordofan : Wadi Asrak, Pfund, 
316! Abyssinia : Djeladjeranne Distr., on rocks in the valleys at Mai- 
Mezano, Schimper (sect. 3), 1445! 1460! Modat Province, in narrow valleys, 
Schimper, 1156! Harar, Everthal, 1600 m., Ellenbeck, 854! from Tigré or 
Begemder, Schimper (a. 1863-8), 364 ! Togodele, /;hrenberg! German East 
Africa: hill on the Tandangongoro Lake, about 250 m., in bushwood, Busse, 
2485! Nyasaland, Nyika Plateau, MeClounie, 161! Rhodesia: Boruma, 
Menyhart, 523! Ngamiland : Kwebe Hills, 990 m., Mrs. №. J. Lugard, 206 ! 
German South-West Africa: Amboland ; in the wood Ondonga, in the shade 
of trees, Rautenen, 42 I—Also in India and Formosa. 
See РІ. 17. fig. 9, fruit and prickle. 
43. T. annua, Linn. Mant. i. 73 (1767); Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2296 (1822); DC. 
Prodr. i, 507 (1824) ; Mast. in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 256 (1868); 
Szysz. Thalamifl. Rehmann. 150 (1887); К. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzenw. 
Ost-Afr. C. 264 (1895) ; Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. i. 97 (1896). 
T. triclada, Link, Enum, Hort. Berol. ii. 5 (1832). 
T. trichoclada, DC. Prodr. i. 507 (1824). 
T. nana, Bojer, Hort. Maurit. 43, sphalm. (1837). 
T. Schimperi, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 83 (1847). 
Annual, 30-60 cm. high. Stems glabrescent below, very sparingly 
hirsute above with simple hairs, and with a single or two opposite lines 
of crispate pubescence. Leaves long petioled, rhomboid-orbicular or ovate 
(the upper ones lanceolate), acutely acuminate, coarsely serrate, membranous, 
sparingly setulose with simple hairs on both surfaces ; stipules spreading, 
subulate, hirsute. — Flower-buds 2:5-4 mm. long. Sepals conspicuausly 
horned, horns bearing one or more bristles. Stamens 4-11. Fruits depressed- 
globose, about 1*5 em. in diameter including the prickles, 4-celled, perfectly 
glabrous, or the body and base of prickles inconspicuously pilose with long 
weak hairs (forma piligera) ; fruit-body honeycombed-reticulate, 3 mm. long, 
7 mm. in diameter; prickles about 60, 3-5 mm. long, uncinate, conspicuously 
broadened into the base, slightly flexuous especially in a young state. 
From Abyssinia to Natal and the Transvaal, and in Angola, German 
South-West Africa, and Madagascar :— 
Abyssinia : in the valley of the river Tacaze, near Djeladjeranne, Schimper 
(sect. 3), 1455! in bushy shady places in the middle of the Scholoda Moun- 
tains, Schimper (sect. 1), 368! Hamedo, 1380 m., Schimper (sect. 1), 369 
