24 CVI, AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). [ Celosia, 
much as } in. long, including the petiole. Panicles terminal, inter- 
rupted, of small close cymes. Perianth ,; in. long, scarious straw- 
coloured, becoming brown. Filaments linear at the top, without 
interjected teeth. Ovary subglobose, with (sometimes at least) 2-3 
basal ovules. Style hardly any; branches 2 short. Capsule constantly 
1-seeded.— Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1. 885. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 6566, 6566B ! 
15. C. populifolia, Moguin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 239, amend- 
ing the description. Undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, little hairy. Leaves 
petioled; blade ovate-lanceolate, 3 by 1} in., base rounded or trun- 
cate, hardly subcordate. The linear panicles, 4-7 by } in., in a 
copious thyrsus at the end of the branches, when young straw-coloured, 
later dark-coloured. Cymes small, subsessile, close together, hardly 
confluent. Perianth-segments 1, in. long, oblony, scarious white, with 
a dark mark down the back even when young. Filaments linear, 
without interjected teeth ; anthers oblong ; pollen globose, 15 win diam., 
with a few large tubercles. Ovary with (often at least) 2 or 3 ovules; 
style short, with 2 branches. Capsule as long as the perianth, ovoid, 
invariably 1-seeded.—A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 212; Aschers. in 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 179; Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 180, in 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 163. C. dracheata, Zarb in Cat. Spéc. 
Bot. Pfund, 33? Chamissoa populifolia, Hochst. ex Moquin in DC. 
Prodr. xiii, ii. 239. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Modat, Schimper, 1038! Togodele, Ehrenberg ! 
White Nile, Schweinfurth, 938! 1048! Broun! Darfur, Purdy, 29! Kordofan, 
Pfund, 225! 
Hochstetter put this species in Chamissoa, because he found the capsule 1-seeded. 
Mogquin transferred it to Celosia, stating twice over that tle capsule is 2—4-seeded. 
Among the abundant material I find the capsule always 1-seeded. Hence has arisen 
much confusion over this species; in particular Schweinfurth 9388 and 1048 have 
both been distributed under the name of Celosia anthelmintiea, Aschers. 
Imperfectly known species, 
16. C. hastata, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 106. An erect under- 
shrub; branches 3-4 ft. long. Leaves 1-13 by 2 in., oblong or linear, 
petioled, lower hastate, puberulous. Spikes 13 by 2 in., dense cylindric ; 
flowers 2-5 ina cluster. Perianth straw-coloured, } in. long. Fila- 
ments subulate, hairy. Style as long as the utricle, 3-fid. Utricle 
obovoid, circumcissile, with numerous seeds.—Lopr. in Malpighia, xiv. 
427. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Muoa, Holst, 3124. 
3. HERMBSTAIDTIA, Reichb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 25. 
Fertile stamens 5; sterile stamens developed as processes, some- 
times alternate with and distinct from the fertile filaments, sometimes 
fused wholly or partially with these. Otherwise as Celosia ; with which 
Hermbstedtia agrees perfectly in habit. 
