Celosia. | CVI, AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). 19 
petioled ; blade ovate to lanceolate, often 3 in. long. Inflorescence of 
terminal white linear panicles 2-4 by } in., much looser than those of 
C. argentea, often somewhat interrupted. Perianth 4-1} in. long; 
segments oblong, 1-nerved, scarious, straw-coloured, acute. Filaments 
5, linear, with no teeth between them ; anthers short, elliptic. Capsule 
ovoid, narrowed at the top, hidden by the perianth; style 4-2 the 
length of the capsule, 3-fid. Seeds several.Moquin in DC. Prodr, 
xii. ii. 241; Hook. Niger Fl. 491; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
885 partly (ice. excl. C’. Loandensis) ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172; Dur. & 
Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, 232; Dur. & De Wild. in Comptes. -rendus 
Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 85; Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 180; Schlecht. 
West-afr. Kautsch.-Exped. 287. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 570! Gambia, Brown-Lester, 17! 
Sierra Leone: near Kambia, Scolt-Elliot, 4227! near Berria, Scott-Elliot, 5403! 
Liberia, Whyte. Grand Bassa, Vogel, 82! Gold Coast: Aburi Hills, Johnson, 472 ! 
Lagos, Barter, 20145! Yoruba, Schlechter, 13039! Cameroons: Bipindi, Zenker, 
2647! Yaunde, 2500 ft., Zenker et Staudt, 165! Northern Nigeria: Borgu, 
Barter! Bornu, Elliott, 123! Fernando Po, Vogel, 158! Mann, 80! 
Nile Land. Niamniam: by the River Nabambisso, Schweinfurth, 2971! 
Lower Guinea. Lcwer Congo: Bingila, Dupuis; and without precise 
locality, Smith ! Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 6558! 6558B! Golungo Alto, 1000— 
2400 ft., Welwitsch, 6577! Huilla, Welwitsch, 6495 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Bangala, 1000 ft., Hens, C, 175! Mon- 
buttu : Munza, Schweinfurth, 3479 ! 
Var. 8 pilosa, Schinz in Bull. Herb, Boiss, 2 sér. iii. 9. Stem feebly sparsely hairy. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Rio del Rey, Johnston / 
3. C. cuneifolia, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 276, partly. Ends 
of the 3 branches seen 15 in. long, nearly bare of leaves, with several 
lateral branches, each terminated by a linear panicle. Leaves 1-1} in. 
long, oblong, obscurely pubescent. Linear panicles 1-4 by $ in., alto- 
gether resembling those of C. lawa, Schumach. ; perianth, stamens, stvle, 
capsule and seeds, undistinguishable from those of C. laxa, Schumach. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, 
Kirk ! Lower Shire; Moramballa Hill, Kirk ! 
The stem and leaves are more pubescent than those of C. lara. Baker also cited 
a plant collected by Meller in the Shire valley which has pandurate leaves, and is 
here referred to C. pandurata. 
4, C. trigyna, Linn. Vant. 212. A branched, straggling, nearly 
glabrous herb, 1-4 ft. high. Lower leaves long-petioled ; blade 1-5 in. 
long, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate. Linear panicles 4-12 in. long, 
interrupted, sometimes reduced to a nearly simple spike ; sometimes the 
distant globular cymes are 1 in. in diam., with numerous flowers. 
Perianth + in. long, white, straw-coloured, or dusky ; ; segments oblong, 
subacute, l-nerved or nerveless, Filaments 5, without interjected 
teeth ; anthers short elliptic. Style hardly any; branches 3, rather 
long. Capsule subglobose, several-seeded.—Hook. Niger Fl. 491; 
