Arva. | AMARANTACE (Cooke and Wright). 427 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége! 
KALAHARI REGION : Transvaal ; Scheer Poort, Miss Leendertz, 131a! 
Eastern Recron: Natal; around Durban Bay, Krauss, 298 (by error 198)! 
near Durban, Wood, 200! Inanda, Wood, 629. 
Also in Tropical Africa, India and Malaya. 
XIV. CALICOREMA, Hook. f. 
Flowers subcapitate or spicate, hermaphrodite, bracteate and 
2-bracteolate. Perianth coriaceous, 5-partite, not or moderately 
indurated at the base; segments clothed on the back and margins 
with straight silky-white hairs not longer than the sepals, the 
2 exterior sepals oblong-lanceolate muticous 3-nerved, the 3 interior 
narrower. Stamens 5; filaments filiform, united at the base by a 
membranous tube and with interposed short broad erose staminodes ; 
anthers 2-celled. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, attenuated into an elongated 
slender style ; ovule suspended from the apex of an elongate funicle ; 
stigma capitellate. 
A rigid branched shrub ; branches robust, terete, woody ; leaves scattered, 
small, narrow, cylindric, obtuse, glabrous, fleshy, sulcate above, narrower than the 
branchlets ; flowers subspicately arranged at the apices of branches, solitary or 
~ fasciculate ; rhachis of the inflorescence robust ; bracts and bracteoles short boat- 
shaped hyaline, much shorter than the perianth. 
Disrrip. Species 1 in Tropical and South Africa. 
1. C. capitata (Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 35) ; 
a short much-branched undershrub ; branches alternate, terete, 
thick, ashy-grey, the younger tomentose ; leaves all alternate, few, 
scattered, cylindric, obtuse, up to } in. long, about 4 lin. broad, 
glabrous ; nerves not conspicuous ; heads of flowers reaching } in. 
long and rather broader than long ; bracteoles 24 lin. long, broadly 
ovate, obtuse, concave, glabrous, hyaline ; perianth reaching 5 lin. 
long, silky-hairy ; 2 outer sepals longer and broader than the inner, 
all lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved ; filaments rather more than | lin. 
long ; staminodes very short, ovate, obtuse ; anthers more than } lin. 
long, oblong ; ovary glabrous ; style 2 lin. long ; stigma capitellate. 
Sericocoma capitata, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 308; Baker & 
C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 42, 
Sout Arrica: without locality, Drége, 2914! ; 
Western Recton: Little Namaqualand ; banks of the Orange River, Schlechter, 
11473 ! Little Bushmanland ; Naroep, Schlechter ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
XV. ACHYRANTHES, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, deflexed when old ; bracts and bracteoles 
spinescent. Perianth-segments 4-5, aristate, becoming hardened and 
ribbed. Stamens 2-5 ; filaments subulate, connate at the membra- 
