BOTANY OP FERNANDO NOEONHA. 67 



Caryopsis obovata, basi angustata, obtuse trigona brevissime 

 apiculata rufa punctata. 



Main island, bigb up on tlie Peak and in clefts in the rock of 

 Chaloupe Bay ; no. 7. 



Cypeeus distans, L. f. Suppl. p. 103 ; Jacq. Ic, PI. Bar. ii. 

 p. 8, t. 299 ; C. B. ClarJce in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxi. j). 144;. 



Plentiful by the edges of the roads near the Peak iu the 

 cultivated district. 



Distrihdion. The whole of the tropical world. 



C. FEEAX, Bich. in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. i. p. 106 ; C. B. 

 Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xx, p. 295, xxi. p. 191. — Dicli- 

 dium ferox, Schrad. ; Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. 1. p. 54. 



Common in the central district with the last, but much more 

 abundant ; Sambaquichaba, Leao, Tangle Bay, &c. 



Bistrihution. Common in South America. 



C. LiGTJLAEis, L. Am. Acad. v. p. 31 ; Sp. PI, p. 70 ; Boech. Gyp. 

 Serb. Berol. ; C. B. Clarice in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xx. p. 196. 



Tangle Bay, and the field below the curral near Cotton-tree 

 Bay and Leao. Not so common as the last. Abundant on Rat 

 Island ; forming large tufts. 



Bistrihution. All warm parts of America from Florida to 

 Eio de Janeiro, also west Tropical Africa and Madagascar. 



FlMBEISTYLIS DIPHYLLA, Vahl. 



Scattered about on the main island, on the hill above Chaloupe 

 Bay, at East Point near the curral, and at Leao, mostly along the 

 paths, in dry spots. At Morro branco it was common and a 

 good deal larger, growing among grass. 



Bistrihution. All the tropical world. 



SciEPTis MiCEANTHiJS, Vahl. — Hcmicarpha isolepis. 



In the fields below the Peak and round Sau Antonio Fort, in 

 waste ground. 



Bistrihution. All tropical countries. It is a common weed in 

 the garden paths in Pernambuco, and has doubtless been intro- 

 duced accidentally into Fernando Noronha. 



Rhynchospoea micrantha, Valil, Enmn. ; Boech. Cyp. Herh. 

 Berol. J). 768. — Dichromena micrantha, Kimth, Enmn. p. 278. 



On the hill between Chaloupe Bay and S. Antonio Bay, on the 

 paths through the maize-fields in the Sapate, and near the Peak. 



Bistrihution. West Indies, Guatemala, Brazil, West Africa, 

 and Tenerifte. 



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