884 c. illecebracEjE. [Paroyiychia 



hilly places, at Praia de Gale, Porto Grande, in the island of St. 

 Vincent, plentiful ; without fl. or fr. August 1853. No. 1067- In the 

 same neighbourhood, near the town of Mindello, plentiful ; in fl. and 

 fr. Jan. 1861. No. 1067ft. 



3. SCLEROCEPHALUS Boiss.; Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. iii. p. 17. 



1. S. arabicus Boiss. Diagn. PI. Or. Nov. i. fasc. 3, p. 12 (1843). 



Paronychia scUrocephala Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, iii. 

 p. 262 (1835). P. sclerocarpa Stand. Nomencl. Bot. ii. p. 269 

 (1841). S. Aucheri Walp. Bepert. v. p. 75 (1845) ; J. A. Schmidt, 

 Beitr. Fl. Cap Yard. Ins. p. 276 (1852). 



Cape de Yerde Islands. — A prostrate, rigid, somewhat fleshy, 

 apparently annual herb, with the habit nearly of Illecehnim ; fruit 

 echinate. In rocky maritime hilly places, covered with a volcanic 

 sand, behind Yilla de Mindello, in the island of St. Yincent, at Praia 

 de GaM, sporadic and not at all plentiful ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861.. 

 No. 1091. 



This is possibly the low erect shrub, with thick almost cylindrical 

 leaves, plentiful on the sandy seashore of the island of St. Vincent, 

 without fl. or fr., mentioned by Welwitsch in Annaes Cons. Ultramar. 

 Lisb., No. 7, August 1854, p. 79. n. 1. 



CI. AMARANTHACEiE. 



Gomphrena globosa L., the " Perpetuas " of the Portuguese, is 

 met with wild in all districts, both the variety with white flowers 

 and that with purple ones. See Welw. Apontam. p. 547. n. 74. 



1. CELOSIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 24. 



1. C. trigyna L. Mant. PI. alt. p. 212 (1771). 



Ambriz. — In woodlands at Quibanga ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 6557. 



Loanda. — By ponds near Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. middle of July 1854. 

 No. 6537. An annual herb, at first erect and nearly simple, soon 

 branched. By swamps near Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 6560. 

 Leaves in old age deep red ; flowering spikes small, silvery white. 

 By dried-up swamps near Quicuxe, plentiful ; fr. July 1854. Coll. 

 Carp. 869. 



GoLiiNGO Alto. — In poor fields near Cambondo ; fl. and fr. 

 No. 6562. 



Ambaca. — A small specimen, 5 in. high. In an excursion towards 

 Puri-Cacarambola ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 6571. 



HuiLLA. — In fields after crops of Scn-ghum and Mays, very plentiful, 

 among other Amaranthacese ; fl. and fr. end of May 1860. No. 6485. 



2. C. cristata L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 205 (1753). 

 Loanda.— In fl. No. 6512ft. 



3. C. Scliweinfurtliiana Schinz in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxi. p. 178 

 (28 May 1895). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An annual or biennial herb, usually somewhat 

 woody at the base, ascending ; branches divaricate, variously twisted ; 

 perianth pentaphyllous.'whitish, somewhat closed or at the mouth only, 

 somewhat spreading during the flowering ; stamens 5, hypogynous, all 

 fertile ; filaments broader at the base and combined into a shallow 



