SPICILEGIA GORGONEA. 113 
chorus fruticulosus, Vis. Pl. Æg. et Nub. p. 91.—1c. Linn: 
F Dec. fasc. 3. t. 2. Vis. 1. c. t. 8. f. 2. 
Has. In planitie Porto Prayensi, ins. S. Jacobi, vulgaris, (J. 
- Dalton Hooker, n. 166. Nov.1839. In ipsis oppidi plateis 
(Brunner 1. c.) In ins. S. Vincentii et S. Nicolai, (Th. 
Vogel.) 
- This species, first found by Forskáhl in Arabia, and de- 
scribed by Linnæus in the Mantissa, though it reappears 
in these islands, belongs essentially to Nubia and the 
Arabian peninsula. Aucher found it at Mascato (exsicc. 
n. 4286), Schimper near Djedda (exsicc. n. 813), Brocchi 
and Kotschy (it. Nub. n. 342) near Chartum, at the con- 
fluence of the White and Blue Rivers, which unite there 
in the latitude of the Cape de Verd Islands to form the 
Nile, and the latter likewise at Tekele, on the borders of 
Cordofan. It cannot certainly be separated generically from 
Corchorus. Professor Visiani justly describes it as fre- 
quently pentamerous; and probably on that account he did 
not recognize it as the Antichorus of Linneus, of which 
it scarcely forms a separate division, but should be placed in 
the section Coretoides of De Candolle. Both Forskáhl and 
Brocchi say it is edible, like its congener, C. olitorius, L., 
à circumstance not mentioned by our voyagers. 
39. Triumfetta Lappula, Linn. Sp. pl. p. 637. T. Plumieri, 
Gaertn. p. 137.—Ic. Plum. ed. Burm. t. 255. Descourt. 
Fl. des Antilles, 2. t. 101 et 102. Da Arr. FI. flum. t. 5. 
Has. In valle S. Dominici, ins. S. Jacobi, (J. Dalton Hooker, 
n. 191, Nov. 1839.) 
40. Triumfetta pentandra, Rich. in Guill. et Perr. Fl. Sen. 
. Tent, p. 93.—Ic. Rich. 4. c. t. 19. & 
Haz. In locis umbrosis vallis S. Dominici, ins. S. Jacobi, 
(J. Dalton Hooker, n. 177. Nov. 1839.) 
'. The Cape de Verd specimens differ from the plant figured 
m the Flora of Senegambia in having the leaves entire 
and not 3-lobed. The reduction of the stamens to five, 
alternating with the petals, and that of the glands to p^ 
Smallest proportion, with the almost entire suppression 
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