Pupalia. | AMARANTACEZ (Cooke and Wright). 423 
3-5-nerved. Stamens 5; filaments subulate, very shortly connate 
at the base, without alternating staminodes; anthers 2-celled, 
didymous. Ovary ovoid, tapering upwards into a slender style ; 
stigma capitellate. Ovule solitary, pendulous from a long funicle. 
Utricle enclosed in the perianth, ovoid, compressed, membranous, 
indehiscent. Seed lenticular ; testa thinly crustaceous ; aril none ; 
embryo surrounding the floury albumen ; cotyledons linear, flat. 
Herbs or subshrabs, tomentose or nearly glabrous, trichotomously branched ; 
leaves opposite, petiolate, broad, quite entire ; spikes simple or branched ; flowers 
green ; bracts scarious. 
Distrip. Species about 6, in Tropical Africa, the Mascarene Islands and 
Tropical Asia. 
Leaves tomentose on both surfaces; awns of barren 
flowers yellow ... e me ‘ ... (1) lappacea, 
Leaves glabrous or sparingly bairy; awns of barren 
flowers purple ... ‘she oe ee ae ... (2) atropurpurea. 
1. P. lappacea (Juss. in Ann. Mus. Par. ii. [1803] 132) ; a large 
straggling undershrub ; branches terete, tomentose ; leaves 144 in. 
long, 4-2 in. wide, elliptic or ovate, acute or acuminate, rounded or 
shortly cuneate at the base, finely apiculate, tomentose on both 
surfaces, ciliate ; main nerves conspicuous beneath ; petioles qo—i in. 
long ; flowers in close or distant clusters arranged in terminal 
spikes 4-10 in, long; rhachis tomentose ; bracts ovate, acuminate, 
pungent ; villous, {—} in. long ; bracteoles ovate-oblong, apiculate, 
concave, } in. long, } in. wide ; sterile flowers subtended by a small 
lanceolate bract, reduced to bunches of unequal stellately spreading - 
hooked awns, woolly below, enlarged and yellow in fruit ; perianth- 
segments } in. long, lanceolate, aristate, 3-nerved, densely clothed 
with white wool; utricle membranous, very thin, oblong, suddenly 
and shortly tapering at the apex into the long persistent style ; 
seed ,!, in. long, ,'; in. wide, ellipsoid, compressed, smooth, shining, 
black. Moguin in DC. Prodr, xiii. ii, 331; A. Rich. Tent. Fil. 
Abyss. ii. 217; Hook. Niger Fl. 494; Garcke in Peters, Reise 
Mossamb. Bot. 504; Aschers. in Schweinf, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 180 ; 
Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, PAlanzenfam. iii. la, 93, figs. E, H, and 
108 ; in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 164, v. Append. iii. 65, 
and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
207; Durand & De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. 
xxxvi. 85; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 724 ; Baker & C. B. Cl. in 
Dyer, Trop. Afr. vi. i. 47. P. styracifolia, Juss. ex Steud. Nomencl. 
ed. i, 269, 669. Achyranthes lappacea, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i, 204. 
Desmochzeta flavescens, DO. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 1813, 102. Pupal 
lappacea, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 891. Pupal-Valli, 
Rheede, Hort. Malab. vii. 81, t. 43. 
Coasr Reaton : Uitenhage Div. ; Enon, Prior! Albany Div.; on the rocks of 
Zwartwater Poort, Burchell, 3398 ! : 
Centrat Recron: Graaff Reinet Div. ; near Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., Bolus, 
562! 
