18 CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE}. [ Celosia. 
form, sometimes 1-1} in. long and linear, sometimes spathulate- 
elliptic and 4-5 in. long on petioles 1-2 in. long. Spikes continuous, 
very dense, } in. broad and upwards, scarious, straw-coloured, often 
4-6 in. long, sometimes $-lin. long. Perianth } in. long and upwards ; 
segments oblong, subacute. Filaments linear, united into a tube at the 
base; interjected teeth 0, or rarely minute and bristle-like, much shorter 
than the filaments; anther-cells 2, oblong; pollen globose, 18 » in 
diam., with a few tubercles. Ovary ellipsoid, narrowed upwards into 
the long style, 3-branched at top. Capsule ellipsoid, narrowed at the 
top, much shorter than the perianth, circumscissile; seeds several, 
often 4-8.—Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. evii.; Hook. Niger Fl. 491; 
T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 646; Oliver in Trans, Linn. Soe. 
xxix. 140; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 178; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 205; Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172; Schinz in Engl. 
and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 93, fig. D, and 99, t. 51, figs. 
A, B, C, in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 180, in Bull. Herb. Boiss, iv. Append. 
ii. 163; Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 33; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 885; Dur. & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 231; Dur. & De 
Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc, Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 84; De Wild. & Dur. 
Pl. Thonner. Congol. 14; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 4, 5, t. 1, fig. A, 
B; Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 287. C. margaritacea, Linn. 
Sp. Pl. ed. 11. 297. C. splendens, Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 
140 (the style-branches having been broken off) ; Moquin in DC. Prodr. 
xlil. 11. 244. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Kakatown, Whyte! Gold Coast: Accra, Don! 
and without precise locality, Brown, 373! Lagos, Dawodu,61! Northern Nigeria : 
Nupe, Barter, 154! Southern Nigeria : River Quorra (Niger), Vogel, 29! Benin, 
Dennett, 16! 
North Central. Bagirmi and region of Lake Fittri, Chevalier, 9827 ! 
Nile Land. Darfur, Purdy, 30! Kordofan, Steudner, 650! Kotschy, 84! 
149! 230! Pfund,890! Sennar, Kotschy, 259! Gallabat: Matamma, Schwein- 
furth, 635! 636, 637! Abyssinia: Tigre; 5700 ft., Schimper, 1350! Gageros ; 
4000 ft., Schimper, 2260! and without precise locality, Schimper, 456! White 
Nile, Petherick! Schweinfurth, 952! Sobat River, Muriel, S, 55! Uganda 
Speke & Grant, 532! British East Africa: Njemps-Mkuba, Gregory ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith, 38! 74! Hens, C, 172! Coquilhat- 
ville, Schlechter, 12609! Angola: Cazella, Welwitsch, 1082; River Cuango, 
Welwitsch, 6543! 80 miles from Ambriz, Monteiro ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Stanley Pool, Callewaert! Mtowa 
Descamps ; Bingila, Dupuis ; Nyangue, Demeuse ; Mukenje, Pogge. 
Mozamb. Dist. British East Africa: Witu, Thomas, 41! Mto Ndei, Scott- 
Elliot, 6215! Uganda: Kavirondo, Scott Elliot, 7076! Usoga, Scott-Elliot, 
7214! Nyasaland: Tanganyika, Carson, 2! 
Also in Arabia, South-east Asia, Malaya. 
C. eristata, Linn, (Loanda, Welwitsch, 65128), is a cultivated state of C. 
argentea, Linn., introduced or run wild in many warm parts of the world. 
2, C. laxa, Schumach. d- Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 141. A nearly 
glabrous branched herb, 2-4 ft. high. Leaves alternate, lower long- 
