44 CVI. AMARANTACEA (BAKER AND CLARKE). Cyathula. 
¥y 
of Kakatown, Whyte! Gold Coast: Akim plains, Johnson! Assin Yan Kumasi, 
Cummins, 123 |! Togo, Warnecke, 180! Lagos: Ikorim, Millson ! Lagos, Moloney! 
French Congo: Upper Ubange River, Chevalier, 5684! Cameroons, Braun! Fer- 
nando Po, Vogel, 33! Barter ! Mann, 39! 
Nile Land. Niamniam: Kulenjo, Schweinfurth, 2841! Uganda, Scott- 
Elliot, 7346! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Welwitsch, 6540! Gaboon: Sibange Farm, 
Soyaux, 7! Lower Congo: Lukungu, Hens, A, 338! Angola: Golungo Alto, Wel- 
witsch, 6550! 6579! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Bangala, Demeuse. 
Also in the Mascarene Islands and South-east Asia. 
2. C. geminata, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii, 330, Stem and 
leaves nearly glabrate. Leaves 5 by 2} in., gradually narrowed at 
either end, subsessile. Partial inflorescences } in. long, with 1 
perfect flower, oblong, or in fruit ellipsoid, scarcely ovoid; otherwise 
as CO. prostrata, Blume.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 494; Schinzin Engl. 
& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. 1A, 108. C. prostrata, Durand & Schinz, 
Etudes FI. Congo, i. 233, partly. Achyranthes geminata? Schumach. 
Beskr. Guin. P]. 138. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: atthe confluence of the Niger and Benue 
Rivers, Barter ! Fernando Po; Vogel, 253! 258! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Lutete, 2000 ft., Hens, A, 233! 
I here describe the plant of Vogel, the “type” of Bentham. As to Cyathula 
stead of one—a difference of no importance. In spite of the authority of Bentham 
and Schinz, I doubt whether C. geminata is separable from C. prostrata. 
3. C. globulifera, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii, 329. Stem 3-4 ft. 
long, hairy. Leaves 2-43 in. long, ovate or obovate, narrowed at either 
end, hairy beneath (at least when young) ; petioles }-2 in. long. Heads 
globose, 1-14 in. in diam., straw-coloured, very dense, sometimes | oF 
2 at the ends of the branches, sometimes 3-5 in cymose inflorescences 
(rarely leafless). Partial inflorescences with usually 1 perfect flower, 
the imperfect flowers (bracts) ending in strong hooked bristles. 
Perianth-segments 4 in. long, mostly muticous. Staminodes small, 
oblong. Ovary obovate, glabrous; style longer than the ovary.—Zarb 
in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 33; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iii. 1A, 107, fig. 61, B, in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 173, Engl. Hochge- 
birgsfl. Trop. Afr. 206, partly; Lopr. in Eng]. Jahrb. xxvii. 63 in obs., 
xxx. 28 in obs. Desmocheta uncinulata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw- 
1.890. Pupal huillensis, Hiern, 1.c. 892. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 6564! Huilla ; near 
Lopollo, Welwitsch, 6493! 
Mozamb. Dist. Ge:iman East Africa: east shore of Lake Tanganyika 5 
Scott-Elliot, 8340! Kilimanjarc, New! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; 
Namasi, Cameron, 47! Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! Manganja Hills, 
