Hermbstedtia.| AMARANTACEZ (Cooke and Wright). 407 
Eastern ReEcion: Portuguese East Africa; Ressano Garcia, near Komati 
Poort, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 11876! 
4. H. odorata (T. Cooke) ; a low branched plant less than 1 ft. 
high ; stem and branches slender, striate, glabrous ; leaves }-1 in. 
long, scarcely reaching } lin. broad, subsessile, linear-oblong, usually 
recurved, glabrous or nearly so ; spikes }—2 in. long, 3-4 lin. broad, 
simple, continuous; bracts }—} lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, 
scarious, persistent ; perianth up to 2 lin. long, rosy (Burchell) ; 
segments oblong, acute at the tip, 3-nerved, central nerve reaching 
the apex, lateral nerves shorter; staminodes scarious, quadrate-* 
oblong, as long as or slightly longer than the stamens, 2-fid at the 
apex into lanceolate lobes; anthers oblong, 2-celled; capsule 
globosely ovoid, cireumscissile about the middle; style scarcely 
+ lin. long; stigmas 3, about } lin. long, recurved; seeds few, 
about } lin. in diam., lenticular, black, shining. H. elegans, var. 
recurva, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 247. Celosia odorata, Burch. 
Trav. 8. Afr. i. 389. C. recurca, Burch. Trav. S. Afr. ii, 226. 
KaLaHarRI REGION: Griqualand West; Griquatown, Burchell, 2111! between 
Spuigslang Fontein and the Vaal River, Burchell, 1712! 
_ 5. H. elegans (Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 247); 10-20 in. 
high, branched ; branches erect, striate, glabrous or nearly so, rigid, 
green ; leaves #~1} in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, obtuse or subacute, 
- narrowed towards the base as if petiolate, subcoriaceous, lower 
leaves spathulate-oblong, the upper narrowly linear, glabrous ; 
spikes terminal, 2-8 in. long, 4-6 lin. broad, nearly continuous, 
at first ovate-triangular, at length oblong; bracts 1} lin. long, 
ovate, caudate-acuminate, hyaline; perianth 2 lin. long ; segments 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, scarious, shining, white or rosy, 3-5- 
(rarely 7-) nerved, lateral nerves much shorter than the central 
nerve which reaches the apex ; anthers narrowly oblong ; staminodes 
slightly longer than the stamens, 2-fid at the apex into 2 lanceolate 
lobes ; capsule circumscissile below the middle; style very short ; 
stigmas 3, about } lin. long ; seeds } lin. in diam., lenticular, smooth 
and polished, black. Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 
la, 100; Baker & O.B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 26. H. 
recurva, CO. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i, 25. 
CENTRAL Recion: Hopetown Div. ; near Hopetown, Bolus! 
Katanarrt Recion: Griqualand West ; Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2028! 
along the Vaal River, Burchell, 1767! between Griquatown and Witte Water, 
Burchell, 1963 ! Orange River Colony ; by the Vaal River, Burke, 334! Thorntree 
Valley, Mrs. Barber! Bechuanaland; between Kuruman and the Vaal River, 
Cruickshank, 2548! between the Mashowing River and Kuru, Burchell, 2409! 
near the source of the Kuruman River, Burchell, 2455/?! Kosifontein, Burchell, 
2563! Barolung Territory, Holub! Bakwena Territory, 3500 ft., Holub! 
Transvaal ; Pretoria, Bolus, 3109! Potgieters Rust, Miss Leendertz, 1963! South 
African gold fields, Baines! Hermans Kraal, Schlechter, 4198! Rustenburg, 
4000 ft., Miss Pegler, 1014! ; coi 
Eastern Region: Natal; banks of the Umzinyati River, 3000-4000 ft., 
Sutherland! Delagoa Bay ; Lorenzo Marquez, Wilms, 1257 ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
