Cuphocarpa.| AMARANTACE (Cooke and Wright). 415 
small, ovate; ovary villous, shortly horned; style 2 lin. long, 
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Eastern Recron: Natal; near Durban, Arauss, 294! Wood in MacOwan & 
Bolus, Herb. Norm. 1034! Grant! Inanda, 1800 ft., Wood, 67! : 
There is no doubt that the specimens of Krauss (294) in the Kew Herbarium 
represent Meisner’s type of Sericocoma Chrysurus. I quite agree with Schinz that 
Sericocoma trichinioides, Fenzl, is conspecific. 
2. C. resedoides (Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 44) ; stem slightly 
woody, erect, 2 ft. high, glabrous, slightly constricted at the 
insertion of the leaves when dry; leaves distant, decussate, 
narrowly linear-lanceolate, mucronate, tapering into the petiole, 
up to 2 in. long and 1} lin. wide, glabrous ; flowers in clusters of 
2-3 fertile and 1-2 sterile collected into terminal spikes 1} in. long 
and 4 lin. wide; bracts ovate-triangular, acute, awned, hyaline, 
ribbed, 24 lin. long, 1 lin. wide ; bracteoles connate at the base, 
broadly ovate, acute, hyaline, with a thick hairy midrib produced 
into a long awn; perianth-segments unequal, oblong-ovate, about 
24 lin. long, acute, hyaline, densely long hairy, the strong midrib 
of the two outer produced into a’short awn ; filaments subulate ; 
staminodes shortly trapezoid; ovary turbinate, laterally horned, 
pilose ; style subulate, twice as long as the ovary ; stigma capitate, 
Lopr. in Malpighia, xiv. 437. 
Eastern Reaion: Transvaal; Lydenburg district, by the Watervaal River, 
Wilms, 1260. 
3. C. angustifolia (Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 45) ; suffruticose, 
glabrate except the inflorescence, often 2 ft. high, branched below ; 
branches terete, rather® slender, glabrous; leaves opposite or 
fasciculate, reaching 2 in. long, scarcely more than 1 lin. broad, 
sessile, linear, shortly mucronate, glabrous ; flowers in dense, 
usually obtuse spikes 2-3 in. long, } lin. broad, the partial inflor- 
escences consisting of 2—4 fertile and 1-2 sterile flowers, each of 
the latter reduced to a pair of silky-hairy hard sharp terete yellow 
shortly stalked spines reaching 24 lin. long; bracteoles broadly 
ovate, membranous, silky-hairy, the midrib produced into a strong 
terete prominent spine ; perianth 3 lin. long ; sepals 5, the 2 outer 
the largest, oblong-lanceolate, aristate, silky-hairy, the 3 inner 
oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse, not aristate ; stamens 1} lin. long; 
anthers rather more than } lin. long; ovary subglobose, 1 lin. 
