Mareellia.| | AMARANTACEA (Cooke and Wright). 413 
V. MARCELLIA, Baill. 
(LevcospHara, Gilg, partly. Sericocomopsis, Schinz, partly.) 
Fertile flowers 1-3 in each cluster; sterile flowers 1 or more in 
each cluster, reduced to spines, not hooked. Perianth-segments 
oblong. Stamens 5; filaments linear, united below into a cup; 
staminodes none; anthers 2-celled, oblong. Ovary ovoid, densely 
hairy; ovule solitary, suspended from a basal funicle; style 
columnar ; stigma small. 
Undershrubs; leaves opposite, simple, entire; flower-clusters collected into 
dense spikes near the top of the stems. 
Distris. Species about 9, in Tropical Africa. 
1. M. Bainesii (C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 51); a 
much-branched undershrub, up to 18 in. high; branches terete, 
clothed with soft white hairs ; leaves obovate-elliptic, 10 lin. long, 
3 lin. wide, acute, tapering to the base, densely white silky-tomen- 
tose on both surfaces; spikes subglobose, about 6 lin. in diam. ; 
clusters consisting of 1-2 fertile and 2~4 sterile flowers; bracts 
lanceolate, 3 lin. long, acuminate, scarious, silky outside ; bracteole 
ovate, acuminate, much shorter than the bracts ; perianth-segments 
lanceolate, acuminate, 2 lin. long, silky; staminal cup nearly as 
long as the hairy ovary ; utricle densely hairy. Sericocoma Bainesit, 
Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 31; Schinz in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1a, 107, 106, fig. 60. Sericocomopsis 
Bainesii, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 185, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
v. Append. iii. 65. Leucospheera Bainesii, Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. Nachir. i. 153; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 41, xxx. 
107. 
Western Recion: Great Namaqualand; Ganab, Schinz, 249; Nanas, Fleck, 
176a; Keetmanshoop, Fleck, 172a. 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
VI. LEUCOSPHARA, Gilg, partly. 
(Suricocomopsis, Schinz, partly.) 
Fertile flowers in 2-flowered clusters arranged in globose heads ; 
barren flowers none. Perianth-segments 5, clothed with white silky 
hairs. Stamens 5; staminodes none. Ovary elongate. Otherwise 
as Marcellia, Baill. 
Disrris. Species 1, endemic. LI. Bainesii, Gilg, has been transferred to 
Marcellia. 
