Hermbstedtia.] CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). 25 
Species 15, in Tropical and South Africa. 
*Evu-H&RMBSTEDTIA.—Sterile stamens alternate with and distinct from the 
fertile filaments, oblong, divided at the top into two lanceolate lobes. 
Leaves 13 in. long, linear. 
Sterile stamens about as long as the fertile 1. H. recurva. 
Sterile stamens much longer than the fertile . . 2. HH, elegans. 
Leaves 3-1 in. long, 
Leaves narrowly oblong, parallel-sided . i . 8. A. dammarensis. 
Leaves widely obovate . . ; : ; . 4. HH. Gregoryt. 
**GoMPHRO-HERMBSTEDTIA.—Filaments 5, oblong, slightly widened upwards 
with two lobes at the top, oblong, divergent or unequal, or very short and almost 
obsolete; between these lobes is the sessile anther. 
This subgenus has been put back into Celosia by Schinz and Lopriore ; a view 
which involves the assumption that the 5 stamens which are fertile in Hu-Hermb- 
stedtia are sterile in Gomphro-Hermbstedtia. It is preferable, with J. G. Baker, 
to suppose the bifid processes of the former to be yet more deeply bifid in the latter 
and fused in separate halves with the fertile filaments. What Lopriore regards as 
avery broad filament is then a linear filament fused on either side with half a 
Sterile filament. 
Lateral lobes at the top of the filament manifest 
Style 3-fid. 
Perianth 4-2 in. long : : : , . 5. H. argenteiformis. 
Perianth } in. long or less. 
Heads short ovoid . : : é : . 6. . Schinzit. 
Heads cylindri . . : ‘ ‘ . @, HH. faleata. 
Style 2-fid . : : : : : . 8. A. linearis. 
Lateral lobes at the shoulder of the filament obscure or 
obsolete. 
Plant nearly glabrous . 9. H, longistyla. 
Stem and leaves pubescent, at Jeast when young. 
Stem hairy even in age g 5 > Zi . 10. H. scabra. 
Stem in age nearly glabrous z - . ll. H. Fleckit, 
*** PsruDo-HERMBSTEDTIA—Filaments 5, depressed-ovate; on the summit of 
each is a short or minute fertile filament. This subgenus has also been put back 
into Celosia by Schinz and Lopriore. It is supposed here that the broad ovate part 
of the filaments is formed of the fertile filaments fused in some way with the sterile. 
At all events, the line between H. scabra (with the lateral proce-ses at the top of the 
filament sometimes nearly obsolete) and H. angolensis (with no trace of such pro- 
cesses) is so narrow that the two species must be placed in the same genus. 
Leaves 13 by 4 in., oblong : i : . 12. HA. angolensis. 
Leaves 4 by 3 in., obovate ‘ ; ; : . 13. H. spathulefolia. 
l. H. recurva, C. B. Clarke. Rhizome thickened, very long, per- 
pendicular. Stem 1 ft.long, divided repeatedly from the base. Leaves 
1-1} in. long, linear, the lower linear-oblong, nearly glabrous. Spikes 
+ in. broad, continuous, simple, 4-14 in. long. Perianth 4 in. long; 
segments oblong, triangular at the tip, striate on the back, more or less 
pink on the back when young, fuscous in fruit. Filaments linear, 
shorter than the staminal tube; anthers small, round ; pollen globose, 
20 » in diam., tubercled; interjected processes (infertile stamens ?) 
scarcely longer than the stamens, quadrate-oblong, divided at the top 
into two lanceolate spreading segments. Style very short, 3-fid. Cap- 
Sule ovoid, with few seeds.—H. Caffra, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xii. 11. 246, 
