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prolonged at the tip into two oblong processes as long as the subsessile 
oblong anther between them. Ovary narrowed into the long style, 
3-fid at the top. Capsule hardly 4 in. long, ovoid, few-seeded.—//. 
Welwitschii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 278. Celosia argenteiformis, 
Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 100, in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxi, 180, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1 sér. v. Append. iii. 63, incl. var. 
oblongifolia; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 886; Lopr. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxx. 5, 104, fig.1 D. C. Yoenjesii, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
2 sér. iii. 8 (44). 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 6502! German South- 
west Africa: Hereroland, Nels! Belck, 33, 45, Guerich, 126, Fleck, 732; 
Amboland, Wulfhorst, 25, Toenjes, 19, 25; Great Namaqualand; Rehoboth, Fleck, 
35, 1744, 658, 939. 
6. H. Schinzii, C. B. Clarke. An erect, nearly glabrous annual, 
5-8 in. high. Leaves 3-1} by ;/; in. Spikes terminal, } by 2 in., shortly 
ovoid, dense, scarious white. Perianth } in. long; segments broadly 
oblong, shortly acute, 3-nerved on the back, often pink on the 
back when young. Filaments fertile 5, broad-oblong, the apparent 
filament prolonged at the top into two oblong processes overtopping the 
oblong anther between them. Ovary ellipsoid, narrowed upwards into 
a short style, 3-fid at the top. Capsule ellipsoid, narrower upwards, 
several-seeded.—Celosia linearis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 
Append, iii. 64, partly, not any part of Hermbstedtia linearis, Schinz. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland; Ondongo, Rau- 
tanen, 73! 
This plant is easily separated from Hermbstadtia linearis, Schinz, by its 3-fid 
style ; apart from that character, the heads and perianth are different. In his later 
diagnoses of new species Schinz rarely tells us whether the style is 2-fid or 3-fid. 
7. H. falcata, C. 2. Clarke. Anannual,10in. high, much branched 
from the base. Leaves 4-1} by jin. Spikes 3 by 3 in., cylindric, dense 
(or slightly interrupted at the base). Staminal tube and anthers as of /7/. 
Schinzii. Style 3-fid. Capsule as of 7. Schinzii.—Celosia falcata, Lopriore 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 58, xxx. 5, 104, fig. 1 F, in Malpighia, xiv. 427. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; between Mossamedes and Capangamb:, 
Capello, 4. 
Not seen. From the full description of Lopriore, this species must be very close 
to H. Schinzii, possibly the full form of that species; it differs in being a stouter 
plant, with the inflorescence 3 in. long and cylindric, instead of 4 in. long and 
ovoid. 
8. H. linearis, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 210. 
Nearly glabrous, much branched, 1 ft. high. Leaves 1 by 71, in. Spikes 
terminal, 4 in. broad, long-cylindric or short-ellipsoid, continuous, not 
dense. Perianth 1 in. long, scarious; segments broad-oblong, hardly 
acute, 3-nerved on the back, pink on the back when young. Filaments 
fertile 5, broadly oblong (i.e. combined with the 5 sterile), produced at 
the top into two short lateral elliptic lobes, much shorter than the 
elliptic anther between them. Style long, 2-fid. Capsule ovoid, 
