884 c. iLLECEBBACEiE. \Pa/ronychia- 



hilly places, at Praia de Gal^, 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. 10676. 



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



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



Pa/ronyehia sderocephala Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, iii. 

 p. 262 (1835). P. sekrocarpa Steud. NomencL Bot. ii. p. 269' 

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

 Beitr. Fl. Cap Verd. Ins. p. 276 (1862). 



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

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

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

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

 de 6al^, 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. Yincent, 

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

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



CI. AMAEANTHACE.J]. 



Gomphrena glohosa 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. CEIOSIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 24. 



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



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



LoANDA. — By ponds near Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. middle of July 1864. 

 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. 

 Cakp. 869. 



GoLTJNGO 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 Sorghum and Mays, very plentiful,, 

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



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

 LoANDA.— In fl. No. 6512&. 



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

 (28 May 1895). 



GoLUNeo 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 



