Ceradium.] xvn. caryophyllacea: (oliver). 141 



slightly exceeding the sepals, 2-fid or 0. Capsule cylindrical slightly curved 

 above, exceeding the calyx more or less.— C. simeme, Hochst. in PL Schimp. 



Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountain, Mann. ! 



Mile Land Abyssinia, Schimper I and others. 



0. octandra, Hochst. ; Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 45, is a tetramerous variety occurring in Abys- 



A cosmopolitan weed, apparently truly indigenous in tropical Africa, at least on high 



ground. 



"• C. africanum, Oliv. A weak branching herb, attaining 1-2 ft., 

 with slender internodes 1-2J in. long, shortly glandular-pilose, especially 

 above. Leaves membranous, plane, spreading, sessile, lanceolate, very acute, 

 sparsely scabrid-pilose, f— 1£ in. long. Flowers in small, terminal, few- 

 nowered cymes, with the slender rather short pedicels, glandular-pilose. Se- 

 pals ovate-lanceolate, rather acute, shorter than the narrow oblanceolate very 

 shortly 2-fid or nearly entire petals. Styles 5, very short. Capsule narrowly 

 ov oid, straight, exceeding the calyx, opening at the apex in 10 very short 

 teeth or 5 at length 2-fid. Cotyledons incumbent. — Arenaria africana, 

 nook. f. in Joum. Linn. Soc. vii. 184. 

 Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountain, 7000-10,000 ft., Mann ! 



5. STELLARIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 149. 



Sepals free, 5 (or 4). Petals as many, 2-fid or 2-partite. Stamens 10 

 °r fewer. Styles usually 3. Capsule globose, oblong or ovoid, dehiscing in 

 as many 2-fid valves as styles or twice as many and entire. — Diffuse herbs. 

 Leaves plane, rarely subulate. Flowers white, usually in terminal dichoto- 

 m °us paniculate cymes. 

 A numerous and wide-spread genus, in temperate, arctic, and mountain regions. The 

 11 J indigenous species known to me is endemic. 



!• S. Mannii, Hook.f. in Joum. Linn. Soc.-vii. 183. A weak, diffuse, 

 lender, nearly glabrous herb, from a few inches to 1 or 2 ft. ; branches as- 

 cending, sparingly setulose or glabrous. Leaves rather firmly membranous, 

 ^ate, very acute, entire or crisped, scabrid-punctate above, 1 in. long or 

 ' es8 > H in. broad, slender, on petioles of H in - Flowers in small, few- 

 "Offered, divaricate, terminal panicles ; pedicels and calyx minutely glandular- 

 Pubeseent, Sepals linear-lanceolate, acute. Petals 2-fid ; lobes narrow, 

 acu te, connivent, nearly equalling the sepals. Ovary globose, with 3-5 

 ovules. J H 



JfPPer Guinea. Camaroons mountain, 7000 ft., Mann ! St. Thomas, Dr. Welnntfeh ! 



J* Hooker points out that this plant is nearly allied to Ceylon and Himalayan species. 

 « Dr. Schweinfnrth's ' Flora JStbiopica' (p. 60), there is a notice of S Braunrana, 

 J*** in litt." The name is applied to a well-marked plant, with the habit of S. media, 



»eted by Schimper in Abyssinia. No description is given, 

 hi media > L - An annual weed of cultivated ground, in every quarter of the world, pro- 

 liS on ^ally dispersed from Europe, no doubt occurs in various localities with... the 

 $*• .of this flora. I have only seen tropical African specimens from Angola, where Dr. 

 JHntsch gathered it as a weed of cultivation. It differs from the preceding in its solitary 

 {J* from the forks of the leafy branches, the internodes of which are marked by a sottly 

 ' esceilt Hue, and other characters.] 



