Cyathula.] | AMARANTACEA (Cooke and Wright). 421 
flower with sterile flowers around it, the sepals of the sterile flowers 
ending in long hooked spines ; bracteoles 2} lin. long, ovate, aristate, 
sometimes shortly hooked ; perianth 24 lin. long ; 2 outer segments 
lanceolate, aristate, shortly hooked, 24 lin. long; 3 inner segments 
2 lin, long, ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, all pubescent or woolly ; 
filaments } lin. long; anthers } lin. long, ovoid ; staminodes much 
shorter than the filaments, oblong, laciniate, glabrous; ovary 
obovoid ; style 3 lin. long, slender; seed rather more than } lin. 
long, light brown. Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iu. 1a, 
107, fig. 61,8; Baker & C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 44. 
Pupalia holosericea, Fenzl in Drége, Zwei Pi. Documente, 51, 56, 
152, 158, 214; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 329. Alternanthera 
lappulacea, Schlechtend. ea Moquin, l.c. Desmochxta uncinulata, 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 890. 
Coast Recion: Albany Div.: near Grahamstown, Cooper, 3053! Queenstown 
Div. ; in scrub, Lesseyton Drift, Galpin, 2591! Shiloh, Baur, 793! 
CrenTRAL Recron: Graaff Reinet Div. ; at Milk River, Burchell, 2594/2 ! Oude 
Berg, near Graaff Reinet, 3800 ft., Drége, Bolus, 302! Aliwal North Div. ; rocky 
hills near the Orange River, Burke! Kraai River, 4500 ft., Drége. 
Katanart Recon: Orange River Colony; Bloemfontein, Rehmann, 3833! 
Transvaal ; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1261! near Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 41 ! 
Rehmann, 4547 ! : 
Easrern Recion : Pondoland ; between St. Johns River and Umsikaba River, 
1000-2000 ft., Drége. Griqualand East; mountains near Matatiele, 5000 ft., 
Tyson, 1619! Natal; Inanda, 1800 ft., Wood, 14! Umlazi River Heights, under 
500 ft., Drége, and without precise locality, Cooper, 1079 ! Gerrard, 1572! 
3. C. natalensis (Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 97); stem weak, 
decumbent, several feet long ; branches opposite, sulcate, scabrous ; 
leaves opposite, obovate or oblong-spathulate, up to 1} in. long and 
10 lin. wide, cuspidate or shortly acuminate, obtuse at the base, 
adpressed, pilose; petiole short; heads terminal, solitary or in 
pairs, globose, 6-8 lin. in diam., woolly ; bracts hyaline, glabrous, 
shining ; lateral flowers sterile, setaceous, uncinate, golden-yellow, 
base surrounded by wool; central flower hermaphrodite ; perianth- 
segments lanceolate, equal, 3 lin. long, herbaceous with scarious 
margins, rather woolly outside ; filaments filiform, about half as 
long as the sepals, hirsute at the base; anthers oblong, 2-celled ; 
staminodes much wider than the filaments, truncate, denticulate, 
hirsute ; style filiform, glabrous, longer than the ovary ; stigma 
capitate ; utricle glabrous; seed brownish. Schinz in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1a, 108. Pupalia natalensis, Sond. le. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; Durban, Gueinzius, 143. 
4. C. spathulata (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 421); an erect 
plant (probably perennial) clothed with rusty hairs ; leaves spathu- 
late, rotundate or truncate or attenuate at the apex, sessile or with 
a petiole up to 5 lin. long, 1} in. long, 9-14 lin. wide, hairy on the 
nerves and margin ; flower-clusters formed of 1 fertile and several 
sterile flowers, the latter reduced to hooked spines ; bracts broadly 
