Pupalia.] CVI, AMARANTACEA (BAKER AND CLARKE). 49 
obovoid ; style twice as long as the ovary.—Lopr, in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Roma, ix, 21, and in Malpighia, xiv, 446. : 
Wile Land. Somaliland, Robecchi, 491. 
Not seen. I have not seen tomentose indumentum in Pupalia. The description 
of Lopriore does not say definitely that there are no staminodes, 
000. 6 e 
beneath tomentose. Bracteoles ending in hooks, few.—Achyranthes 
mollis, Thonn. in Schumach. Beskr, Guin. P]. 137. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: common, Thonning. 
+. P. Thonningii, Woquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 333. Branches 
tetragonous, hairy. Leaves ovate-rhomboid, hairy above, nearly bare 
beneath. Spike terminal, solitary, racemose. Bracteoles ending in 
hooks, few.—Achyranthes Thonningti, Thonn. in Schumach. Beskr 
Guin. Pl. 139. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aquapim, Thonning. 
I have no example of this or of the preceding species; nor can I find that any 
author (since Schumacher) has seen either of them. 
6. P. affinis, K. Schum. ex Engl. in Hans Meyer, East Afr. 369. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Meyer. 
I have failed to find any description of this. 
11. MARCELLIA, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 625, 
Perfect flower supported by 1-2 sterile flowers reduced to bracts or 
bracteoles, which are spinose, not uncinate; 2-3 (rarely 1) perfect 
flowers under each floral leaf, constituting partial inflorescences, which 
are arranged in dense compound spikes, and full of fine hairs. Perianth- 
segments oblong or elliptic. Stamens 5; filaments linear, united into 
a cup (without intermediate processes) by a narrow sinus; anthers with 
2 oblong cells. ‘Ovary obovoid ; ovule 1, suspended from a basal funicle ; 
style about as long as the ovary; stigma small, nearly capitate, slightly 
penicillate. Seed orbicular, flattened; embryo annular.— Leaves oppo- 
site, simple, entire. 
Species 15, in Tropical and South Africa. 
The genus, in characters, hardly differs from Pupalia; the sterile flowers 
become hardened, and curve over the ripe fruit; but the heads are without the 
hooked spines of Pupalia. 
. Leaves linear. 
Stem and branches nearly glabrous. 
Inflorescence not interrupted at the base. 
Leaves 1 in. long; internodes 1-2 in. long . lL. MU. mirabilis. 
Leaves 2 in. long; internodes 2-4 in. long . 2. M. denudata. 
Inflorescence interrupted at the base . : . 3. M., sericea. 
Stem and branches tomentose. 
Partial inflorescences red. : : P . 4 MM. Dinteri. 
Partial inflorescences yellow : : 2 . & M. splendens., 
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