“420 - AMARANTACEH (Cooke and Wright). — [ Cyathula. 
Herbs sometimes shrubby at the base, with terete branches ; leaves petiolate, 
ovate, acuminate, quite entire ; fascicles of flowers small or large, green or white, 
reflexed after flowering ; bracts ovate, concave, scarious, usually aristate. 
Distris. Species about 15, in the warmer parts of Asia, Africa and South 
America. 
“Inflorescence elongate... be oes ie w+ (1) cylindrica. 
Inflorescence globose : 
Leaves ovate, flat ‘ae ed ia bet ... (2) globulifera, 
Leaves obovate, flat... ae ie 2s ... (3) natalensis. 
Leaves spathulate, flat : 
Perianth-segments oblong ... eae ty. «.. (4) spathulata. 
Perianth-segments oblong-ovate ... at ... (5) spathulifolia. 
Leaves elliptic, crisped is oe “t ... (6) crispa. 
cuneate at the base, more or less hairy on both sides; nerves 
conspicuous beneath ; petioles }—} in. long, slender ; spikes 1-4 in. 
long, 4 in. broad, often interrupted near the base, the lower 
clusters forming opposite subglobose fascicles ; bracteoles of fertile 
flowers 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ovate, acute, concave, sometimes 
hooked, scarious, hairy on the upper part of the midrib at the back ; 
bracteoles of sterile flowers exceeding the perianth, hooked ; 
perianth of fertile flowers 2} lin. long; sepals subequal, the inner 
3 very slightly narrower than the 2 outer, oblong-lanceolate ; 
perianth of sterile flowers with 2-4 short hooked rigid spines ; 
filaments of anthers reaching } lin. long ; staminodes shorter. than 
the filaments, subquadrate, laciniate at the apex ; seeds ? lin. long, 
rounded at both ends, oblong, light brown. Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxvii. 64 in obs. and xxx. 28 in obs.; Schinz in Engl. & Pranil, 
Pflanzenfam. iii. 1a, 107 ; Baker & OC. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
vi. i. 46. Pupalia Alopecurus, Fenzl ex Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 
149, 150, 214. Trichinium latifolium, E. Meyer ex Moquin, l.c. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége ! 
Kavanari Reaion : Orange River Colony, Cooper, 3051! Transvaal ; hills near 
Aapies River, Rehmann, 4292! 
EasTeRN Recion: Pondoland; between Umtata River and St. Johns River, 
Drége! Natal; Isnama, Sutherland! Inanda, Wood, 525! near Van Reenen, 
5000-6000 ft., Wood, 5708! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1143! 3052! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
hairy ; inflorescence in dense globose heads, }-1} in. long, nearly — 
as broad as long; partial inflorescences usually of 1 narrow fertile 
