424 AMARANTACE& (Cooke and Wright). | Pupalia. 
Katanart Recon: Griqualand West ; on the Asbestos Mountains and on plains 
at their foot between Witte Water and Griquatown, Burchell, 1972! 2053/'! 
2088! Transvaal; between Delagoa Bay and Pretoria, Bolus, 9752! Wonderboom 
Poort, 4550 ft., Rehmann, 4546 ! Miss Leendertz, 614! Warmbath, Miss Leendertz, 
2089 ! Fourteen Streams, Burtt-Davy, 1594! Klippan, Rehmann, 5298! 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; in ‘‘Thorns” near Weenen, 300-4000 ft., Wood, 
4480 ! 
Also in Tropical Africa and Asia, 
2. P. atropurpurea (Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 331); a 
biennial or annual herb, 2-5 ft. high; branches long, straggling, 
cylindric, glabrous or pubescent, slightly ribbed, often tinged with 
purple ; leaves 1-4 in. long, 3-2 in. wide, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate, mucronate, glabrous or with scattered hairs, rounded or 
cuneate at the base ; petiole up to 4 in. long; flowers in sessile 
clusters in lax pedunculate terminal spikes 1-10 in. long, the 
imperfect ones reduced to hooked purple awns; bracts broadly 
ovate, pungent, persistent, ;4,—1 in. long; bracteoles similar to the 
bracts; perianth-segments ovate-lanceolate, aristate, clothed with 
cottony wool, 3-nerved ; utricle thinly membranous; seed oblong- 
ellipsoid, ,1, in. long, +}, in. wide. A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 218 ; 
Hook. Niger Fl. 494 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 723 ; Baker & C. B. Cl. 
_in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 48; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflan- 
zenfam. iii. 1a, 93, fig. F, and 108, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173. 
Achyranthes atropurpurea, Lam. Encycl. i. 546. Desmocheta atro- 
purpurea, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 1813, 102; Drége, Zwei Pf. 
Documente, 127, 133, 159. : 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div.; in woods at Galgebosch, under 1000 ft., 
Drége, near Strand Fontein and Matjes Fontein, under 500 ft., Drége; Van 
Stadens River, under 200 ft., Drége; Enon, under 500 ft., Drége, and without 
precise locality, Zeyher, 554 ! 
EAsTERN Recion: Pondoland ; St. Johns River, Drége! Natal ; near Durban, 
Peddie! Rehmann, 8744! coastland, Sutherland! and without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 546! 
XII. PSILOTRICHUM, Blume. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, bracteate and bibracteolate. Perianth 
chaffy, 5-partite, persistent and becoming hard ; segments linear or 
ovate-oblong, concave, sometimes gibbous at the base, strongly 
nerved, usually villous outside, glabrous within. Stamens 5 ; fila- 
ments unequal, linear or subulate, united at the base into a cup; 
staminodes 0 ; anthers short or long, 2-celled. Ovary subglobose or 
oblong ; style slender ; stigma capitate or bifid; ovule suspended 
from a long basal funicle. Utricle membranous, indehiscent, enclosed 
in the hardened base of the perianth. Seed lenticular ; testa coria- 
ceous or crustaceous ; aril 0 ; embryo surrounding the floury albu- 
men ; cotyledons rather flat. 
Herbs or shrubs, trichotomously branched, glabrous to woolly ; branches terete ; 
leaves opposite, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, quite entire; flowers in spikes or 
