Centema. | AMARANTACE (Cooke and Wright). 419 
Eastern Reaion: Delagoa Bay, Forbes! Langley, 5! 
2. C. cruciata (Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 184); an annual herb 
about 6 in. high, branched ; leaves linear-lanceolate, up to 2 in. 
long and 14 lin. wide, acute, aristate, glabrous ; flowers in glomerules 
collected into terminal spikes, each glomerule consisting of 3 fertile 
and 3 sterile flowers, the latter reduced to spines ; bracts lanceolate 
from an ovate base, concave, aristate, 2 lin. long, glabrous ; bracteoles 
rotundate, 24 lin. long, about 3 lin. wide, thin ; outer perianth- 
segments ovate-oblong, inner oblong, 24 lin. long, 1 lin. wide ; 
staminal tube rather large; filaments 2 lin. long; staminodes 
short, ligulate, 2-lobed ; utricle ovoid, pilose; embryo forming a 
complete ring. 
Kavanart Recion: Transvaal; Boshveld, Rehmann, 5096, between Elands 
River and Klippan, Rehmann, 5100! in sandy places near Vaalboschfontein, 
Schlechter, 4227! Warmbath, Miss Leendertz, 2073! 
X. CYATHULA, Lour. 
Flowers 1-2 perfect with others imperfect, in bracteate and 
bibracteolate spicate or capitate fascicles, the perianth-segments 
of the imperfect flowers ultimately converted into rigid hooked 
spines. Perianth-segments of pertect flowers 5, scarious, not 
indurated at the base, subequal or the 3 interior narrower, ovate 
or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, or aristate. Stamens 5; filaments 
united at the base by a membrane, with interposed lacerate or 
linear staminodes; anthers oblong, 2-celled. Ovary obovoid ; 
ovule 1, suspended from the apex of an elongate funicle ; style 
filiform ; stigma capitellate.  Uiricle closely enclosed in the 
perianth, areolate at the apex, membranous, indehiscent. Seed 
inverse, oblong; testa thinly coriaceous ; embryo _ peripheric, 
surrounding farinaceous albumen ; cotyledons linear, flat ; radicle 
erect. : 
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