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by the rather coarsely crenate-serrate leaves drying black, the longer 
lobes of the calyx (which organ has a ring of weak hairs inside inserted 
a little distance from the mouth instead of one with many coarse hairs 
inserted in the mouth itself), and the reduced posticous pair of stamens. 
PLANTAGINELE. 
PLANTAGO PALMATA, Hook. fI. in Journ, Linn. Soc, Dol. vi. (1862) 19. 
E. 7000 ft. January. 
Distrib. Mountains from Cameroons to Kilimanjaro. 
APETALZE. 
By А. D. RENDLE. 
The collection includes the following well-known plants :— Расин 
abyssinica, Moq., E. 7000 ft. (tropical and South Africa and Madagascar) : 
Chenopodium fitidum, Schrad., E. 7000 ft. (generally distributed in the 
tropies and warm temperate zones) : Basella alba, Linn., E. 7000 ft. (tropical 
Africa and Asia); Amaranthus caudatus, Linn., S.E. 3500 ft. (warmer parts 
of the Eastern hemisphere) ; Achyranthes aspera, Linn., E. 6000 & 7000 ft. 
(tropics of Old World) ; Celosia trigyna, Linn., X.E. 3500 ft. (common in 
tropical and South Africa); Kuphorbia hypericifolia, Linn., 5.8. 8500 ft. 
(a common weed in the warmer parts of the earth): in addition to the 
following. 
АМАВАХТАСЕ Æ. 
CxaATHULA CYLINDRICA, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 328. 
E. 6000 ft. January. 
Distrib, Tropical and South Africa and Madagascar. 
POLYGONACE. 
RUMEX ABYSSINICUS, Jacq. Hort. Vindob. iii. 48. 
E. 7000 ft. January. 
Distrib. Highlands of East tropical Africa and Madagascar. 
R. STEUDELIL, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. її. 229. 
E. 7000 ft. January. 
Distrib, East tropical Africa and Cameroons. 
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