422 AMARANTACEE (Cooke and Wright). — [Cyathula. 
ovate, villous at the base ; perianth-segments oblong, acute, 3 lin. 
long, about 4 lin. wide, dark green edged with white, hairy at the 
base, glabrous elsewhere ; filaments nearly 2 lin. long ; staminodes 
truncate, fimbriate, about a third as long as the filaments; ovary 
truncate ; style filiform, 14-2 lin. long. 
Eastern Recon: Delagoa Bay, Kuntze, 204, ex Schinz. 
5. C. spathulifolia (Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 54) ; stem erect, 
slender, subwoody, pubescent or tomentose ; leaves spathulate, acute 
or shortly acuminate, 1-2 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, running down 
into a short petiole, hairy on both sides; nerves slightly prominent 
beneath ; inflorescence capituliform, terminal or lateral, subspherical ; 
partial inflorescences of 1 solitary fertile and 4 sterile flowers ; 
bracts hyaline, ovate, concave, acute, aristate ; bracteoles hooked ; 
perianth 24 lin. long ; sepals subequal, oblong-ovate, the 2 outer 
slightly broader than the 3 inner, 3-nerved, all acute or minutely 
apiculate, softly woolly ; sterile flowers converted into hooked spines 
with woolly bases ; filaments of anthers subulate ; anthers oblong ; 
staminodes subquadrate, shorter than the filaments ; ovary 2 lin. 
long, obovoid ; style reaching 1} lin. long, very slender ; stigma 
minute ; ripe utricle 14-14 lin. long, ellipsoid, compressed, areolate 
at the apex, glabrous ; seed 1} lin. long, ellipsoid, rounded at both 
ends, light brown. Lopr. in Malpighia, xiv. 444. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Umzinyati Falls, Wood, 1323! Lorenzo Marquez, 
150 ft., Schlechter, 11640! 
This may be conspecific with C. spathulata, Schinz. 
6. C. crispa (Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 188) ; a low shrub, at 
first hairy, finally more or less glabrous ; leaves elliptic, 5 lin. long, 
2 lin. wide, crisped, sessile or shortly petioled; spikes globose, 
stalked or sessile, formed of 3-flowered clusters ; sterile flowers none ; 
bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, with a long awn, hairy on the 
centre of the back in the lower half; perianth-segments oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 4 lin. long, | lin. wide ; staminal tube. 
1 lin. long ; filaments 1} lin. long ; staminodes dentate or shortly 
fimbriate ; utricle ovoid, glabrous ; style 2 lin. long; stigma 
capitate. 
hameacr ok Transvaal; at Streyd Poort, in the Makapansberg Range, 
This species may on account of the absence of sterile flowers belong to some 
other genus. 
XI. PUPALIA, Juss. 
Flowers in fascicles spicately arranged, central flower perfect, the 
others reduced to stellate bunches of hooked spines. Perianth 
5-partite, not hardened at the base ; segments subequal, acuminate, 
