Psilotrichwm.| CVI. AMARANTACEX (BAKER AND CLARKE). 61 
13. P. edule, C. B. Cl. Stem very stout, with much long brown 
hair; tips of the branches leafy, densely silky. Leaves opposite; blade 
23 in. long, ovate, acuminate, hairy, base rounded; petioles }-} in. 
long. Panicles 4-8 in. long, very straggling, with long spreading 
fine brown hairs. Bracteoles 4-4 the length of the perianth, villous. 
Perianth ,'; in. long, strongly ribbed, glabrous. 
Mozamb. Dist. Pemba Island, Lyne, 108! 129! 
“A vegetable” (Lyne). 
Imperfectly known species. 
14. P. villosiflorum, Lopr. in Ann. Jstit. Bot. Roma, ix. 20. An 
erect herb, 20 in. high; branches opposite, glabrous. Leaves 0 (pro- 
bably scales only). Inflorescence of Psilostachys. Bract small; brac- 
teoles longer than the bract, densely clothed with white hair. Perianth- 
segments ovate, acute, densely hairy. Filaments broad, subtriangular ; 
anthers very small. Ovary subglobose; style filiform; stigma small, 
capitate.—Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 59, in Malpighia, xiv. 452. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: between Robe Mountain and Daua River, Riva, 1455. 
15. P. angustifolium, Gilg in Notizbl. Kinigl. Bot. Gart. Berl. 
i.328. An annual, very glabrous herb, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves opposite, 
sessile, 1-23 by }-} in. Panicles elongate, 12-30-flowered. Flowers 
3 in. long; perianth glabrous. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usinja district, Stuhlmann, 3470, 
This species, from the description, appears close to P. Kirkii ; but the leaves are 
linear-lanceolate or linear. 
16. Psilostachys filipes, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 622 
in obs. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Boivin. 
Said to approach Digera both in its habit and other characters, 
17. Psilostachys nervulosum, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 
i, 622 in obs. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa, Boivin. 
Neither of these species of Baillon has been seen; they possibly are near 
P. Kirkii or P. avillare, above ; but they may belong to some other genus, so far as 
the descriptions go. 
15. CHIONOTHRIX, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. iii. 33. 
Flowers perfect, solitary, each supported by 1 bract and 2 bracteoles. 
Perianth } in. long; segments oblong, muticous, densely covered with 
long white hairs, Filaments 5, linear, at the base lanceolate, united 
