Pisoiiia.] CIV. nyctagine^ (baker and weight). 9 



Schmidt in Mart. Fl. Bras. xiv. ii. 354 ; Hook, f . Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 711 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 270. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast ; base of hills near Akropoiig, Johnson, 806 ! 

 Lagos ; Ollaro to Ajilite, Miller^ 162 ! 



Mozamb. I>i8t. German East Africa ; Kahe, near Kilimanjaro, 2000-3000 ft., 

 Volkens, 2186 ! 



Perliaps introduced from Tropical America. 



4. PH^OPTILUM, Eadlk. in Abhandl. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, 

 viii. (1883), 435. 



Flowers polygamo-dioecious, without an involucre. Perianth caly- 

 cine, funnel-shaped, cut to the middle into 4 (rarely 5) ovate spreading 

 lobes, hairy outside. Stamens 8, shortly exserted, rudimentary in the 

 female flower ; filaments filiform, connate at the base into a fleshy cup. 

 Ovary shortly stipitate, obovoid, 1 -celled, often with the rudiment of a 

 second carpel ; style filiform, exserted ; stigma penicillate. Fruit 

 enclosed in the indurated longitudinally 4-winged perianth-tube. Seed 

 erect ; endosperm present ; embryo hooked. 



Monotypic. Also in South Africa. 



1. P. spinosum, Radlk. in Abhandl. Xaturw, Ver. Bremen, viii. 

 436. A spiny shrub. Branches ending in spines bearing crowded 

 lateral branchlets, often converted into spines. Leaves fascicled, linear- 

 cuneate, about 6 lin. long, rather thick, fragile when dry, glabrous, pale 

 green. Flowers \\-2 lin. long, 2 lin. in diam. when expanded, in small 

 fascicles from above the often fallen clusters of leaves ; bracts narrowly 

 oblong, 1-nerved, densely pilose. Fruit enclosed in the persistent calyx- 

 tube (anthocarp), 6 lin. long, and (including the wings) nearly as broad. 

 — Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. App. iii. G8. P. Heimerli, Engl. Jahrb. 

 xix. 133. JSfachtrigalia protectoratus, Schinz ex Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xix. 133. Amphoranthus spinosus, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 305, 

 t. 441, fig. A. 



Iiower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Damaraland ; on the souttieru 

 Kaokafeld near Choriclian, Giirich, 20 ; Kamelneck, Giirich, 42, and without precise 

 locality, Een ! Hereroland, Fleck, 278 ! 



Also in extra-tropical Great Nama(pialand and Cape Cc^lony. 



Order CV. ILLECEBRACE^. (By J. G. Baker, with 

 additions by C. H. Wright.) 



Flowers regular, usually all hermaphrodite. Perianth herbaceous or 

 finally coriaceous, persistent ; lobes or segments usually 5. Stamens 

 usually 5, perigynous, often alternating with subulate or petaloid sta- 

 minodes ; filaments short, sometimes united at the base ; anthers 

 2-celled, dehiscing laterally. Ovary superior, sessile, 1 -celled; ovule 

 usually solitary ; style obsolete or produced ; stigmas 2-3. Fruit 

 usually a utricle, enclosed in the persistent perianth. Seed erect, or 



