416 AMARANTACEA (Cooke and Wright). [Cyphocarpa. 
across, slightly flattened, furnished with a horn at one side, silky- 
villous ; style reaching 1 lin. long, slender ; stigma small, capitate ; 
seed doubled on itself, the folded seed 1 lin. in diam., orbicular, 
compressed, red. COyathula angustifolia, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. 
ii. 328 ; Sonder in Linnza, xxiii. 97. Sericocoma angustifolia, Hook. 
f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 30. 
CrnTRAL Reaion : Hopetown Div. ; near Hopetown, 5000 ft., Muskett in Herb. 
Bolus, 2208 ! 
Katanart Recion: Griqualand West; near Griquatown, Burchell, 1945! 
Holub! Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2065! St. Clair, Douglas, Orpen, 241! 
Transvaal ; Daspoort, near Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 156! Komati Poort, 1000 ft. 
Schlechter, 11819! Vaal River, Burke, 333! Zeyher, 1487; Boshveld, between 
Kameel Poort and Elands River, Rehmann, 4807! Warm Bath, Miss Leendertz, 
1599! 
4, C. Wilmsii (Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 42) ; plant 8 in. high ; 
stem erect, herbaceous at first, subwoody later, branched from the 
base ; leaves decussate, glabrous, 2} in. long, } lin. broad, with a 
thick bristle point ; inflorescence spicate, conical, supported by a 
pair of leaves immediately below the spike; spikes 7 lin. long, 
6 lin. broad ; partial inflorescences of usually 4 fertile and 4 sterile 
flowers, 2 of the fertile flowers completely developed and 2 incom- 
pletely, each accompanied by 2 lateral sterile flowers which consist 
of 5 unequal spindle-shaped spines, of which the outer ones are 
provided with a tuft of hairs and a narrow blade; bracteoles 
unequal, obliquely suborbicular with a hyaline blade, densely long- 
hairy at the base, 24-3 lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad, with a strongly 
developed midrib produced into a spine ; sepals about 2—24 lin. long, 
1-1} lin. broad, ovate, acute, the 2 outer ending in spines which 
are a continuation of the midrib, all hyaline, densely pilose at the 
base; filaments subulate, connate at the base, 1} lin. long ; 
staminodes short, papilla-like; anthers oblong-elliptic; ovary 
turbinate, laterally horned, pilose, especially on the crown, style 
subulate, 2 or 3 times as long as the ovary ; stigma capitate. 
Katanart Region: Transvaal; Lydenburg district, between Middelburg and 
the Crocodile River, Wilms, 1259, ex Lopriore. 
I have not seen the specimen ; the description is taken from Lopriore. 
VIII. SERICOCOMA, Fenzl. 
Flowers spicate or capitellate, hermaphrodite, 1-2 fertile with 
1 or more sterile flowers usually reduced to spines, the inflorescences 
full of fine hairs, bracteate and bibracteolate. Perianth-segments 5, 
thickly coriaceous or chartaceous, connate at the base, ovate- or 
oblong-lanceolate, the inner the narrowest. Stamens 5; filaments 
filiform, united at the base into a short cup ; staminodes usually on 
the rim of the cup between the stamens, rarely (S. avolans) 0 ; 
anthers oblong, 2-celled. Ovary ovoid or oblong, not horned, woolly 
