Corrigiola.| | CY. ILLECEBRACEX (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 13 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 59. C. littoralis, DC. Prodr, iii. 366 ; 
A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. 305; Schkuhr, Handb, t. 85, fig. 3; Harv. 
& Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 182; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 215. C. 
capensis, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1507; DC. lc. 
Nile Land. Enitrea: Shoho, Petit! Akerland, near Halai, 8500 ft., Schwein- 
Surth! Abyssinia: Adowa, Petit, 359! and without precise locality, Schimper, 
1002! 1876! 
Also in Europe, South Africa, and Temperate South America. 
5. SCLERANTHUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 19. 
Perianth herbaceous when young, crustaceous when mature; tube 
campanulate; lobes usually 5. Stamens usually 5, inserted at the 
throat of the perianth-tube ; staminodes 0. Ovary ovoid ; styles 2, 
distinct ; ovule solitary, pendulous from a basal funicle. Seed lenti- 
cular ; embryo annular.—Dichotomously branched dwarf annual or 
perennial herbs. Leaves opposite or fascicled, connate at the base. 
Flowers green, in axillary and terminal clusters, not bracteate. 
Species about 10. Cosmopolitan in the Old World. 
1. S. annuus, Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. i. 406. Annual. Stems much- 
branched, slender, obscurely pubescent, 3-6 in. long. Leaves linear, 
often fascicled, 3-1 in.long. Flowers in axillary and terminal clusters. 
Perianth 1} lin. long.; tube 10-ribbed ; lobes lanceolate, acute, as long 
as the tube, finally erecto-patent. Stamens 5, short.—DC. Prodr. iii. 
378; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. 304; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 
60; Engl. Hochgebirgesfl. Trop. Afr. 216. 
Nile Land. Eritrea ; around Saganeiti, Sehweinfurth § Riva, 1372! Abys- 
sinia: near Adowa, Quartin Dillon & Petit, 360! Schimper, 111! between Mai 
Goagoa and Debra Sina, Quartin Dillon & Petit, 51! and without precise locality, 
Schimper, 991 ! 
Also in Europe, North Africa, the Orient, South Africa, and introduced into 
North America. 
6, COMETES, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI, iii. 18. 
Flowers 3-nate, the central perfect, the lateral imperfect, the 
clusters subdivided by copious deeply divided bracts with pungent 
subulate segments. Perianth herbaceous, 5-partite ; segments oblong, 
tipped with a conspicuous spreading mucro. Stamens 5, almost 
hypogynous, alternating with large petal-like staminodes; filaments 
united into a cup at the base. Ovary oblong, narrowed into a long 
filiform style with 3 short stigmatic branches; ovule solitary, erect. 
Fruit a membranous utricle included in the persistent perianth. Seed 
erect; embryo straight, dorsal; endosperm scanty.—Dichotomously 
branched erect herbs. Leaves opposite, minutely stipulate. Flowers 
in copious clusters at the end of the branchlets. 
Species 2, the other Oriental and North Indian, 
