22 CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). | Celosia. 
in clusters of 1-3, nearly sessile, distant. Style very short; branches 2, 
linear-oblong. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Albert Nyanza, Stuhlmann, 3052! 3584. 
9. C. schweinfurthiana, Schinz in Lngl. Jahrb. xxi. 178, 180. 
A nearly glabrous rambler, attaining 4 or 5 ft. at least. Leaves long- 
petioled; blade 3 in. long, ovate-lanceolate. Linear panicles attaining 
10 by 1 in., usually less developed, sometimes appearing as elongate 
simple interrupted spikes. Perianth 5 in. long; segments oblong, 
rounded at the top, fuscous on the back, narrowly scarious on the 
margin; but in early flower they are (sometimes at least) wholly 
scarious straw-coloured. Filaments linear, without interjected teeth. 
Capsule ellipsoid, truncate at the top, often exceeding the perianth, 
several-seeded. Style very short, with 2 early-recurved branches.— 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw, i. 884 ; Lopr. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 107. 
Nile Land. Niamniam, Schweinfurth, 3062! Uganda: Albert Edward 
Nyanza; Scott-Elliot, 8053! 8087! Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7408! British 
East Africa: Mombasa and Ribe, Wakefield! Taita, Hildebrandt, 2530. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6551! Pungo Andongo, 
Welwitsch, 6563! 6569! . Cazengo, Gossweiler, 489! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Buchwald, 160, 486, 
489! Holst, 452, Albers, 147. Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1616, 3271, 3877, 
4086. Usagara, Stuhlmann, 6170! Portuguese East Africa Shire Valley, 
Scott ! 
Var. 8 sansibariensis, Schinz in Bull, Herb. Boiss. 2 sér, iii. 9. Young fruit 
elongated, oblong or narrowly ellipsoid, exserted from the perianth.—C. sansi- 
bariensis, Vatke ex Schinz, l.c. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usaramo; Dar-es-Salaam, Hildebrandt, 
1247! 
10. ©. acroprosodes, Hochst. in Bot. Zeit. 1856, 598. A nearly 
glabrous, loosely-branched plant, 2~3 ft. long at least. Leaves petioled ; 
blade 2-24 in. long, cordate ovate-lanceolate. Inflorescences 6-15 by 
3-} in., scarious-white; the small dense cymes of small flowers standing 
apart, except at the tip of the panicle. Perianth |}, in. long; segments 
elliptic, obtuse, white. Filaments linear, without interjected teeth. 
Ovary when young with a thickened spongy top; capsule a little longer 
than the perianth, oblong-clavate, pale straw-coloured; the two curved 
ends of the style projecting out of a small hole depressed in the head of 
the capsule. Seeds several (3), all in the lower membranous part of the 
capsule.—C. intermedia, Hochst. in Bot. Zeit. 1856, 598; Schinz in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii.1A, 1002 C. anthelmintica, Ascherson 
in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 176; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
205, Pa. Ost-Afr. C. 172; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
ii. LA, 100, and 94 t. 48, fig. G, in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 180. C. oblongo- 
carpa, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 418 ; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 6. 
