50 CVI, AMARANTACE% (BAKER AND CLARKE). [ Marcellia. 
Leaves obovate or lanceolate. 
Heads in fruit ovoid. Ovary hairy : : . 6. UM. Bainesii. 
Heads in fruit elongating. Ovary glabrous, 
Partial inflorescences of 3 fertile flowers. 
Leaves 2 in. long, silky hairy . ; ¢ . 7. M. prostrata. 
Leaves 1 in, long, tomentose . : = . 8. M, lanata. 
Partial inflorescences of 5—6 fertile flowers . . 9. WM. tomentosa. 
(See also Centema subfusca, Hook.f., in which the staminodes are 0.) 
1. M. mirabilis, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 625. Glabrous, 
except the inflorescence. Root long, tough; from its top several 
branched rigid crooked stems, 3-6 in. long. Leaves 1 by ;'; in., flat, 
opposite and apparently whorled. Peduncles terminal, 6 in. long or 
more; inflorescence a dense spike, ultimately 9 by 4 in., but when 
young 1 in. long. Fioral leaves orbicular, thin, } in. in diameter. 
Fertile flowers } in. long. Ovary hairy at the top. Hairs elongated, 
enveloping the fruits, pale brown, hardly 10 » in diam., simple, with 
very long cells, smcoth.—Hiern in Cat. Afi. Pl. Welw. i. 888. M7. 
Welwitschii, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb, xxvii. 40, t. 1, fig. C. Sericocoma 
Welwitschii, Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 30; Schinz in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 107, in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 182, 
183, not of Baker. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; in sandy thickets by the River Bero, 
Welwitsch, 6508 ! 
2. M. denudata, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 41. Branches 1 ft. 
long, with internodes 4 in. long. Leaves 1-2 by ;', in., upper more or 
less alternate. Peduncles terminal, 2-3 in. long. Inflorescence in fruit 
4-6 by 4in., dense, thickly involved in long pale-brown fine hairs. 
Bracts to the clusters } in. long, ovate. Fertile flowers ;; in. long. 
Ovary hairy at the top. Hairs enveloping the fruit hardly 10 » im 
diam., simple, with long cells, smooth.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
889. Sericocoma denudata, Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 
30; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 107, in Engl. 
Jahrb, xxi. 182, 188. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: near Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 6503 ! 
3. M. sericea, C. 2. Cl. Stem annual, erect, glabrous or nearly 
so. Leaves 2 by ;; in., opposite. Inflorescences 4 in. long, interrupted 
below ; partial inflorescences } in. long, with white hair, of 2-3 fertile, 
4-6 sterile flowers. Staminal tube without staminodes. Ovary glab- 
rous.—Sericocoma sericea, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 181, 183, in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 107, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v- 
Append, iii. 65. Sericorema sericea, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 40. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland; Omandongo, 
here tl Rautanen ; Great Namaqualand; Rehoboth, Fleck, 378; Dammara- 
and, Een ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Ngamiland: Kwebe, Zugard, 181! Mrs. Lugard, 165! 
