Celosia. | CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). 23 
C. trigyna, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 140, partly, not of Linn. 
C’. acroporoides, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 25, errore typogr. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Dscha-Dscha, 5000 ft., Schimper, 2147! 2173! 
British East Africa: Taita ; Ndi Mountain, Hildebrandt, 2530! Baringo, 3400 ft., 
Johnston! Uganda; Makungoni, Elliott, 356! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro ; Kake plains, Volkens, 
2206 ! 
On typical examples, at the British Museum, the capsules are nearly all clavate 
at the top; but there are a few capsules (on the same stems) which are ovoid, conic 
at the top into a short style. 
11. C.staticodes, Wiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw.i. 886, A herb, 2-3 
ft. high; the stem and nerves of the leaves more or less pubescent. 
Leaves up to 4 by 2} in., ovate-acuminate, base truncate or subcordate ; 
petiole i-2 in. long. Inflorescences 1 ft. long, compound paniculate ; 
lateral panicles 3-4 in. long, loose. Perianth ;', in. long, white; seg- 
ments elliptic, acute, fuscous, scarious on margins. Stamens of Celosia. 
Ovary very young; style hardly any, with 2 branches.—C.. dewevreana, 
Schinz in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxix. 102. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; outskirts of the forest in Sobato de 
Mussengue, Welwitsch, 6572 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State, Dewevre, 230! 
12. ©. leptostachya, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 491. Stem 
1-2 ft. long, slender, little divided. Leaves petioled; blade 2 by } in., 
spathulate-ovate-lanceolate. Spike 5 in. long, linear, apparently simple, 
the small clusters of flowers + in. apart, subsessile. Perianth very 
small, hardly ;', in. long, becoming brown in fruit. Filaments linear, 
short; anthers round. Capsule rather longer than the perianth, ovoid, 
several-seeded ; style short, shortly 2-fid.—Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iii, 1A, 99, in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 180; Durand & Schinz, 
Etudes Fl. Congo, 232; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 107. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Vogel, 141! Cameroons: Batanga, Bates, 
156! Dinklage, 106. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Bangala, Hens, 126. 
Bentham says the styles are mostly 3-fid: I think not; the over-ripe extruded 
styles are recurved, often twisted, and deceptive. Except by the style character, [ 
do not see how the species is to be separated from weak examples of C. trigyna, Linn. 
13. C. minutiflora, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 277. Branch 
15 in. long, slender, little divided. Leaves small, whitened beneath ; 
lower orbicular, }-} in. in diam.; upper 3-3 in. long, elliptic-oblong. 
Panicle 6 by } in., reduced to a spike ; the small clusters of very white 
flowers standing 1} in. apart, subsessile. Perianth about ,}, in. long. 
Capsule small, ovoid, several-seeded ; style hardly any, branches 2. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Urambo, in Unyamwezi, Han- 
nington ! 
14. C. nana, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 277. Plant 4 in. high, 
branched from the base, glabrous. Leaves oblong or ovate, none so 
