Co7'ri(/ioIa.] cv. illecebrace.e (baker and wright). 13 



Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 59. C. littoralis, DC. Prodr. iii. 3G0 ; 

 A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, i. 305 ; Schkuhr, Handb. t. 85, fig. 3 ; Harv! 

 tfe Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 132; Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. Trop. Afr. 215. C. 

 capensis, Willd. Sp. PI. i. 1507 ; DC. I.e. 



irile Iiand. P]iitrea: Slinho, Pe/tY / A]<.er]and, uesiv HaWi, 8500 ft., Schwein- 

 fv.rth I Aln ssinia : Adowa, Petit, 359 ! and without precise locality, Schimpery 

 *1002! 187(5"! 



Also in Europe, South Africa, and Temperate Soutli America. 



5. SCLERANTHUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. l\). 



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. 400. Annual. Stems much- 

 branched, slender, obscurely pubescent, 3-G in. long. Leaves linear, 

 often fascicled, J-1 in. long. Flowers in axillary and terminal clusters. 

 Perianth 1 J lin. long.; tube 10-ribbed ; lobes lanceolate, acute, as lont^ 

 as the tube, finally erecto-patent. Stamens 5, short. — DC. Prodr. iii. 

 378; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 304; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop! 

 (;0 ; Engl. Hochgebirgesfl. Trop. Afr. 21G. 



Nile Iiand. Eritrea : around Saganeiti, Schiceinfurth Sf Riva, 1372 ! Abys- 

 sinia : wa^r A(\o\\?i, Quart in Billon Sf Petit, 360! Schimper, 111! between Mai 

 Goagoa and Debra Sina, Quartin Dillon Sf Petit, 51 ! and without precise locality, 

 ISchimper, 991 ! 



Also in Europe, North Africa, the Orient, South Africa, and introduced into 

 North America. 



G. 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 

 ^ypogynous, 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. 



