Celosia. | AMARANTACE (Cooke and Wright). 405 | 
Katanart Recron : Transvaal; Shiluvane, Junod, 570! Rimers Creek, near 
Barberton, Thorncroft, 3131! 
_EAsTERN Reaion: Pondoland; by the St. Johns River, Drége ! forest above 
Tiger Flat, near Port St. John, 300 ft., Galpin, 2855! Natal; Durban, Rehmann, 
8741! Schlechter, 2790! Inanda, Wood, 529! near the Umgeni River, Arauss, 
238! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 25! Delagoa Bay; north-west of 
Lorenzo Marquez, Bolus, 9750! 
Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar, 
II. HERMBSTADTIA, Reichb. 
Flowers hermaphrodite ; bract 1 ; bracteoles 2, small. Perianth 
5-fid, scarious; segments subequal, oblong or oblong-lanceolate. 
Fertile stamens 5, united into a tube; staminodes developed as 
processes alternate with and distinct from the fertile filaments, 
sometimes fused partially or wholly with these ; anthers 2-celled, 
oblong, sessile or shortly stipitate. Ovary ovoid, attenuated into a 
short or subelongate style ; stigmas 3 (rarely 2, 4 or 5). Capsule 
included in the perianth, ovoid, cireumscissile. Seeds few or many, 
erect, lenticular ; testa black, shining, crustaceous ; embryo annular, 
surrounding farinaceous albumen ; radicle inferior. 
Herbs or undershrubs, glabrous or puberulous ; leaves scattered, linear or 
spathulate-oblong, entire ; flowers arranged on elongate terminal spikes (rarely 
capitate), white or rosy. : 
DistriB. Species 17, in Tropical and South Africa. 
Stigmas2 ... Gee i ot aie e ... (Q) caffra, 
Stigmas 3: 
Inflorescence capitate... oes Aes Vee .. (2) glauca, 
Inflorescence spicate : 
Style long ; stigmas exserted... veh ca ... (3) laxiflora. 
Style short ; stigmas not exserted : 
Leaves sessile or subsessile : 
Leaves linear, recurved: spikes oblong, reach- 
ing 2 in. long ; bracts broadly ovate 4-3 lin. 
long eee eee eee eee eee . 
Leaves not recurved, the lower spathulate- 
oblong ; spikes reaching 8 in. long ; bracts 
caudate-acuminate, 14 lin. long... ... (5) elegans, 
Leaves petiolate : : : 
Leaves oblanceolate; spikes }-11 in. long, 
conical ; bracts 2 lin. long ... ec ... (6) transwaaleonsis. 
Stigmas 4-5 ... sie ae on a eX ... (7) rubromarginata. 
(4) odorata, 
1. H. caffra (Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii, 246); whole plant 
reaching 2} ft., suffruticose below; stems erect, simple below, 
branched above, terete, striate, glabrous ; lower leaves numerous, 
1-1} in. long (including a petiole 4 in. long), 2-3 lin, broad, 
spathulate-oblong, narrowed towards the base, rather thick ; upper 
leaves small, distant, linear ; inflorescence of branched spikes, often 
