46 CVI, AMARANTACE& (BAKER AND CLARKE). | Cyathula. 
7. C. cylindrica, Moquin in DC. Prodr, xiii. ii. 328. Innova- 
tions brown hairy; mature stem (often much branched) with the 
leaves nearly glabrate, and usually smaller than in C. schimperiana. 
Spikes usually more numerous and smaller than in C. schimperiana, 
4-2 by 3 in.; partial inflorescences similar, but rather smaller, scarcely 
exceeding } in. in length, ovoid, often with 2 perfect flowers.—Lopr. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 64 in obs., xxx. 28 in obs.; Schinz in Engl. 
& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 107, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173. 
C. albida, Lopy. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 53, e descript. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Lake Naivasha, Johnston! Galunka, 
Kaessner, 806! between Machakos and Kikiyu, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6590! 
rocks above Lake Elmeteita, 6000-7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6716 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5000 ft., 
Volkens, 592! Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 8938! British Central Africa: 
Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 132! 601! Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte ! 
Meller ! Plateau of Nyika Mountains, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte! 
Also in Madagascar, 
8. C. Mannii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 278, partly. A 
rambler 6-10 ft. high, with long little-divided branches and long inter- 
nodes, rusty hairy; otherwise as (’. cylindrica, Moquin.—C. cylindrica, 
var. schimperiana, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 214. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 296! Cameroon Mountain, 7000- 
10,000 ft., Mann, 2007 ! Johnston! 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba; Scott-Elliot, 6453! 7702! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Panda Peak, 5000- 
6000 ft., MeClounie, 148! 
This is very near C. cylindrica, Moquin, and perhaps should not be specifically 
separated. 
9. C. distorta, C. B. Cl. A crooked, hairy undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, 
much branched. Leaves opposite; blade 1 by 4-3 in., ovate; petiole 
4 in. Spikes terminal, and on very short axillary peduncles, solitary, 
% by 4 in. when young, doubtless elongating in fruit ; very similar to 
the heads of (’. Mannii, Baker, but smaller.— Desmocheta distorta, Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 891. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in thickets at Lopollo, Welwitsch, 
6487 ! 
10. C. pedicellata, (. B. Cl. Branches 2 ft. long, slender, slightly 
hairy, much divided. Leaves opposite, slightly hairy ; blade attaining 1} 
by ?in., elliptic, narrowed at either end; petiole less than4in. Racemes 
terminal on the branches, 2—4 in. long, peduncled, loose at the base both 
in flower and in fruit ; lower pedicels attaining 54, in. Clusters both 12 
flower and in fruit resembling those of C. prostrata, Blume. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Entebbe, 3900 ft., Brown, 8! 
