Murcellia. | CVI. AMARANTACE& (BAKER AND CLARKE). dL 
4, M. Dinteri, Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. xx. 15. Straggling, 
3 ft. high, clothed especially on the young parts with snow-white felt. 
Leaves 1} by +; in., opposite and in part alternate. Each partial 
inflorescence consists of 2 fertile and 2 sterile flowers, the latter clothed 
with silky hairs; sterile floweis and bracts red, 1; in. long. Staminal 
tube without staminodes. Ovary hairy. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Abassi, Dinter, 
1452 ! 
5. M. splendens, Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. xx. 16. Erect, 
perennial, clothed with snow-white felt. Leaves 2 by 4-4 in., opposite 
and in part alternate, ultimately glabrate. Inflorescence 3 by 1 in. ; 
partial inflorescences of 2 fertile and 2 sterile flowers, the latter with 
long hairs ; sterile flowers and bracts yellow. No staminodes. Ovary 
hairy. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Salem, Dinter, 
152! 
This has the leaves broader than those of M. Dinteri, and very much fewer. 
6. M. Bainesii, (’. B. Cl. Much branched, at least 10 in. high, 
clothed with soft short white simple hair. Leaves opposite, 1 by } in., 
narrowly obovate-elliptic. Inflorescences dense, white, ovoid, up to 2 
by $ in.; partial inflorescences of 2—1 perfect, 4—2 sterile flowers; 
hairs on the sterile flowers long, with short joints, scabrid and often 
branched, Staminal tube ending in 5 depressed-ovate lobes, on the 
summit of each a very minute white filament (resembling Pseudo- 
Hermbstedtia). Ovary subglobose, hairy.—Sericocoma Bainesii, Hook. 
f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 31; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 107, 106, fig. 60. Sericocomopsis Bainesii, Schinz 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 185, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. 65. 
Leucosphera Bainesii, Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 
153; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb, xxvii. 41, xxx. 107. 
Mozamb. Dist. Ngamiland: Kobis to North Shaw Valley, Baines ! Kwebe 
Hills, Mrs. Lugard, 158! 
7. M. prostrata, C. B. Cl. Rather thickly covered with bristly 
white hairs, Leaves opposite; lamina 2} by } in., round-elliptic, very 
obtuse, shortly acuminate at the base; petioles } in. long. Inflores- 
cence dense ; partial inflorescence of 3 fertile flowers and several sterile 
flowers. Bracts of the sterile flowers linear, spinescent, 4 in. long; 
straight, glabrous at the tip, towards the base with white hair. 
Stamens 5, without staminodes between them, Ovary glabrous.— 
—— prostrata, Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 
53. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Nashorn Hill, Ugweno Mountain, 
Volkens, 472! 
For this plant I have only Gilg’s diagnosis of the genus and some scraps of 
Volkens, 472, 
