960 cxv. EUPHORBiACE/E. [Phijllanthus 



HciLLA. — In fields cultivated with vegetables, near Lopollo ; fl. 

 beginning of Jan. 1860. Only one specimen in herb. No. 313. 



16. P. Niruri L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 981 (1753); Muell. arg. in 

 DC, I.e., p. 406. 



Biasperiis Niruri O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 600. 



/S. genuinus Muell. arg. in DC, I.e., p. 406. 



LoAXDA. — By dried-up swamps near Quicuxe, middle of July 1854. 

 At Maiango do Rei, 30 July 1854. An annual herb ; stem erect or 

 ascending, much branched ; leaves glaucescent-green ; flowers small, 

 from greenish to yellowish ; here and there in masses, in moist sandy 

 places and under the shade of shrubs, near Boa Vista and towards 

 Teba, fl. and fr. Dec. 1858. No. 314. A glaucous-green, leafy, 

 annual herb, a foot high. By dried-up swamps near Quicuxe ; fr. 

 July 1854. Coll. Cari'. 919. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In fields planted with Arachis hypogwa L., near 

 Sange ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1855. No. 310. In kitchen gardens near 

 Bango-Aquitamba ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1855. No. 311. At the margins 

 of fields near Undelle ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1856. No. ZWh. 



17. P. niruroides Muell. arg. in Jovirn. Bot., I.e., p. 331, and 

 in DC, I.e., p. 409. 



Diasperus niniroides 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 600. 

 Sierra Leone. — In deserted or neglected fields near Freetown ; fl. 

 and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 316. 



18. P. microphyllinus Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 332, 

 and in DC, I.e., p. 409. 



Diasperus micro2)hyllinus 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 600. 

 PuKGO Andonoo. — In mountainous cultivated places near the 

 prtesidium ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1857. Only one specimen. No. 312. 



19. P. longifolius K. J. Jacquin, PI. Ear. Hort. Schoenbr. ii. 

 p. 36, t. 194 (1797) (longifolia). 



Averrhoa acida L. Sp. PI., edit 1, p. 428 (1753). Cieea disticha 

 L. Mant. PI. p. 124 (1767); Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 1 (1786), 

 and Tabl. t. 757, f. 1 (1798). P. Cheramela Roxb. Hort. Bang, 

 p. 104 (1813). P. Cieea Muell. arg. in Linnsea, xxxii. p. 50 

 (1863). P. distichus Muell. arg. in DC, I.e., p. 413. Diasjyerus 

 disiiehus 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 599. 



Cape pe Verde Islands. — A small, elegant tree, 8 ft. high ; leaves 

 at the tops of the branches contorted ; flowers yellowish, on the bare 

 older branches. In a place deserted after cultivation behind Villa da 

 Praia, in the island of S. Thiago, only one tree seen, with comparatively 

 few flowers, probably introduced ; Jan. 1861. No. 3023. 



The leaves are less acute than usual in the species. 



20. P. discoideus Muell. arg. in Linnaja xxxii, p. 51 (1863), 

 and in DC, I.e., p. 416 ; Picalho, PI. Uteis, p. 249 (1884). 



Cieea diseoidea Baill. Adansonia, i. p. 85 (1860). Diasperus 

 diseodeus O. Kuntze, I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small, evergreen tree ; leaves somewhat fleshy, 

 obscurely green, somewhat glossy above, pallid beneath, distichous (as 

 are also the branches and branchlets) ; fruit tricoccous ; in mountainous 

 places, Altura do Cimiterio near Sange ; in young fr. 13 Dec. 1854. 



