Cyathula.| CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). 43 
The diagnosis of ‘* Cyathula” given by Loureiro is worthless and may include 
various things ; but he cites, as one of his original species, Rumph. Herb. Amboin. vi. 
t. 11, which is (as Willdenow notes) certainly Cyathula prostrata, Blume. Desmo- 
cheta DC, (Cat. Hort. Menspel. 102) is diagnosed as having no staminodes, and is 
stated to be equal to Pupalia, Kunth. It is therefore impossible to apply the name 
Desmocheta to our species of Cyathula unless by a writer who unites the genera 
Cyathula and Pupalia. Hiern keeps these two genera separate, and then applies 
the name Desmocheta to Cyathula, Benth. et Hook, f., and Pupal to Pupalia, 
Juss, 
Flowers spicate, z.e. subsessile. 
*Inflorescence long, the lower partial inflorescences 
usually distinct ; flowers j'z—} in. long. 
Flowers 3-7 in. long, often 2 in a cluster . - 1. C. prostrata., 
Flowers } in. long, usually solitary . ‘ . 2. C. geminata. 
** Inflorescences globose, dense, the partial inflores- 
cences stellate in fruit; flowers 4 in. long, or 
more. 
Heads solitary, or a few subterminal. 
Style longer than the ovary . 5 ° . 38. C. globulifera, 
Style short . ; ; “ ‘i 4 4. C. erinacea. 
Heads 15-30 in a close leafless panicle : . 5. C. polycephala. 
*** Inflorescences cylindric, hardly interrupted at the 
base ; flowers } in. long or more. 
Inflorescence nearly 1 in. wide . : . - 6. C. schimperiana, 
Inflorescences 4—% in. wide. 
Branches numerous, often close 7. C. cylindrica. 
Rambler, with elongate branches. A - 8. C. Mannii, 
Inflorescence ovoid-conic, less than 4 in. wide 9. C. distorta. 
Flowers racemose ; lower distinctly pedicellate a - 10. C. pedicellata. 
1. C. prostrata, Blume, Bijdr. 549. Suberect, 1-3 ft. high, 
branched, not woody, hairy or ultimately nearly glabrous. Leaves 1-4 
in. long, ovate or obovate, narrowed at either end. Spikes terminal, 
peduncled, ultimately linear, 2-6 by } in., at the top dense, at the base 
ultimately lax ; partial inflorescences ;},—;), in. long, ultimately fuscous, 
reflexed, ovoid, with 1-3 flowers; bracts aristate, many of the spines 
rigid, ultimately hooked. Perianth-segments ;', in. long, mostly muticous, 
Sometimes ending in spines. Filaments 5, linear to the base, with 
processes (sterile filaments) between them. Ovary obovoid, glabrous ; 
Style as long as the ovary; stigma subcapitate. Seed ellipsoid, com- 
pressed ; embryo curled.—Moquin in DC, Prodr. xiii. ii. 326; Hook. 
Niger Fl. 493; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 723; Schinz in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 108, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173; Lopr. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 63 in obs., xxx. 28 in obs.; Durand & Schinz, 
Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 233, partly. Achyranthes prostrata, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 
li, 296. A. Thonningii, Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 139. Desmocheta 
prostrata, DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 102; Wight, Ic. t. 733; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 890. D. micrantha, DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 
102. Pupalia Thonningii, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 333. Auris 
canis femina, Rumph. Herb. Amboin. vi. 26, t. 11. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone; Sherboro, Scott-Elliot, 5844! near Walia, 
Scott-Elliot, 4133 } and without precise locality, Don! Barter / Liberia: region 
