72 CVI, AMARANTACE& (BAKER AND CLARKE).  [ 7'elanthera. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; coast, Pechuel ; 
Namib, near Walfisch Bay, 500 ft., Marloth, 1178. 
21. TELANTHERA, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 38. 
Flowers perfect, solitary, each (without sterile flowers or rudi- 
mentary bracts) supported by 2 bracteoles. Perianth rigid ; segments 
lanceolate-triangular, muticous, glabrate. Filaments 5, linear to the 
base ; staminodes interjected, long; anthers 1-celled. Ovary obovoid ; 
ovule 1, on a basal funicle; style short; stigma capitate. Fruit 
obovoid, hardly at all flattened; seed lenticular; embryo curled.— 
Leaves opposite. Spikes axillary, ovoid. Perianth in fruit adpressed 
erect, 
Species the 1 following and 40 endemic in America, 
1. T. maritima, Moguin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 364. A nearly 
glabrous decumbent branched herb. Leaves 2-3 by 3-1 in., elliptic, 
narrowed at either end, scarcely petioled. Spikes 4-3 in. long, rigid. 
Perianth-segments + in. long, brown, strongly striate, with scarious 
margins, Staminodes, including their long fimbriations, as long as the 
stamens.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 495. Bucholzia maritima, Mart. 
Nov. Gen. ii. 50, t. 147. Alternanthera maritima, St. Hil. Voy. 
Brésil, ii, 437; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iii, 1A, 115; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 895. - 
Upper Guinea, a sea-coast plant. Senegal, Déllinger, 51! Chevalier, 
4449! Liberia: Bassa, Vogel, 4! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Smeathmann! Don f 
Gold Coast, Burton ! Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Maloney ! Nun River, Vogel, 20! 
Mann, 472! Cameroons: Batanga, Bates, 37 ! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Barter, 1949! St. Thomas Island, Rattray! 
Lower Congo: shore at the mouth, Smith! Banana, Monteiro! Angola: Ambriz, 
Welwitsch, 6553! shores of Loando and Barra do Dande, Welwitsch, 6535! 6559! 
Also on the sea-coast of South America. 
22, ALTERNANTHERA, Forsk.; Benth. et Hook. 
mf, Gone Pic ti Ss, 
Flowers perfect, solitary, each (without sterile flowers or rudi- 
mentary bracts) supported by 2 bracteoles. Perianth thin; segments 
elliptic, lanceolate or mucronate, nearly glabrate or minutely hairy. 
Filaments linear to the base ; staminodes interjected, often very small ; 
anthers l-celled. Ovary obovoid, truncate; ovule 1, ona basal funicle ; 
style very short, subsetaceous. Utricle much -flattened, broadly 
obovoid, with a notch at the top in which remains the small style, 
winged with thin margins; seed lenticular; embryo curled.—Leaves 
baa te Spikes small, globose or ovoid, axillary. Perianths in fruit 
stellate. : : 
Species 25, in the warm parts of both hemispheres. 
