Cyphocarpa.| CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). 53 
East African species. Ovary obovoid. 
Leaves tomentose. . 
Leaves silky. 
Heads without rigid spines ‘ . - 6. C. Hildebrandtii. 
Heads with rigid straight spines ° . 7. C. orthacantha. 
. . 5. C. pallida, 
1. C. angustifolia, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 45. An under- 
shrub, glabrate, except the inflorescence, often 2 ft. high, much branched 
below. Leaves opposite, 2 in. long, narrowly linear. Inflorescences 
dense, in fruit 1-7 in. long, ? in. broad, with much brown hair ; hair very 
long and fine, with rather long joints and papille or minute prickles at 
many of the joinings; bracts ovate, hairy, with short straight spines 
at the tip. Perianth-segments oblong, acute or mucronate, in fruit 
hardened and connate at the base. Staminal tube exceedingly short ; 
filaments linear to the base ; the interjected processes triangular, minute. 
Ovary ovoid, hairy, with a horn on its shoulder.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 889. Sericocoma angustifolia, Hook. f. in Benth. & 
Hook, f. Gen. Pl. iii. 30. Cyathula angustifolia, Moquin in DC. Prodr. 
xiii. ii, 328, fide Hook. f. (but Moquin says twice that his flower-clusters 
were glochidiate). 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Lopollo,”in thickets at the borders of 
fields, rare, Welwitsch, 6489 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; between Lupata 
and Tete, Kirk! Sena, Kirk! Rhodesia: Maitengue Valley, Holub! Bulawayo, 
Gardner, 87! 
Also in South Africa. 
2. C. Petersii, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb, xxvii. 43, 45. Inflorescences 
shortened, conic, very thin, 34 by } in., otherwise as C. angustifolia, 
Lopr.—Lopr, in Malpighia, xiv. 439, 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Tete, Peters. 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Kambole, 6000 ft., Nutt / 
I have seen no authentic example of C. Petersii, and refer Nutt’s collection to 
it only from Lopriore’s description. From that description, C. Petersii would appear 
to differ from C. angustifolia only in the shortened inflorescence. In Nutt’s 
example the young inflorescences are ovoid, less than 1 in, long; the perianth- 
segments are much less hairy than those of C. angustifolia. 
3. C. Welwitschii, C. B. Ci. Erect, 18 in. high, pubescent ; 
branches opposite. Leaves opposite, 14 by 4 in., ovate-elliptic, shortly 
triangular at either end; petiole } in. long. Inflorescence up to 4 by § 
in., white-hairy in fruit; hairs very thin, scabrous at the joinings of the 
cells. Partial inflorescences often with 2-3 perfect flowers ; sterile flowers 
ending in straight short spines. Perianth-segments j in. long, white- 
hairy, hardly spinescent. Filaments linear to the base, with an oblong 
lacerate process between each pair. Ovary glabrous, obovoid, truncate 
at the top.—Sericocoma Welwitschii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 
