28 CVI, AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE).  [Hermbstedtia. 
narrowed at the top, several-seeded.—Celosia linearis, Schinz in Engl. 
& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 99, fig. 51 D, and 100, in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxi. 180, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1 sér. v. Append. iii. 64 partly ; Lopr. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 5, 104, fig. 1 E. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland ; Upingtonia, Schinz, 1 
Dr. Schinz united this with H. Schinzii. 
9. H. longistyla, (. B. Clarke. Nearly glabrous. Leaves 
1-14 by + in., narrowly elliptic. Spikes several, terminal one 1} by 
3 in., dense, lateral ovoid. Perianth } in. long; segments narrowly 
elliptic, hardly acute, pink on the back. Filaments 5 (apparently), 
oblong, slightly widened at the top with a very small lateral process on 
each side ; anther large, oblong, subsessile between the two processes. 
Style 4-3 in. long, four times as long as the ovary, 3-branched at the 
tip. 
Lower Guinea. Dammaraland; Len / 
10. H. scabra, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb, xxxi. 209. 
Stem 2 ft high, almost shrubby, laxly and thinly hairy. Leaves 
14-2 by 4-4 in., oblong or narrowly elliptic, obscurely and laxly hairy. 
Spikes terminal, 2 by 4 in., continuous but not dense. Perianth } in. 
long or rather longer, scarious white ; segments broadly oblong, hardly 
acute, 3-nerved on the back, sometimes pink on the back when young. 
Filaments fertile 5, broad-oblong ; the apparent filament prolonged at 
the top into two processes shorter than the intermediate oblong anther, 
often unequal or very small. Style very long, much exserted trom the 
perianth, 3-fid. Capsule small ovoid, narrowed at the top, few-seeded. 
—Celosia scabra, Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 100, 
in Eng]. Jahrb. xxi. 180, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. iii. 64; 
Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb, xxx. 5, 104, fig. 1 C. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland; Olukonda, Schinz, 
3! Rautanen, 74! 52. 
Mozamb. Dist. Ngamiland: Kwebe Hills,Zugard, 151! Mrs. Lugard, 196! 
Schinz (in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 sér. iv. 8 (44) in obs.) says this species is of 
subgenus Pseudo-Hermbstedtia, because the filaments are not lobed at the top. The 
lobes are shorter than the anther; but the oblong “filaments” widened at the 
top (not broad-ovate, as in Pseudo-Hermbstedtia) place this species in the subgenus 
Gomphro-Hermbstedtia. 
11. H. Pleckii. Annual. Leaves 1} by } in., obtuse, pubescent 
when young, soon glabrate. Spikes cylindric, interrupted at the base. 
Perianth-segments } in. long, acute, when young rose-coloured on the 
back. Filaments not lobed at the top. Style-branches not described. 
Allied to C. scabra, Schinz, but much less hairy.—Celosia Fleckit, 
Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 sér. iii. 8 (44). 
Lower Guinea. (Great Namaqualand: Rehoboth, Fleck, 35, 939. 
Not seen. Schinz puts this in the subgenus Pseudo-Hermbstedtia, because he 
considers Celosia scabra to be of the same subgenus. 
