Achyranthes.| | AMARANTACEH (Cooke and Wright). 429 
thick ; main nerves prominent on the under surface; petiole rigid, 
up to 9 lin. long, channelled above, convex beneath ; spikes terminal, 
up to 10 in. long; rhachis white-woolly ; bracts 3 lin. long, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, scarious, woolly at the base and on the margins, 
midrib strong ; bracteoles 14 lin. long, ovate and scarious at the 
base, with a very strong long-excurrent midrib, white-woolly ; 
perianth-segments 2 lin. long, the 2 outer slightly larger than the 
inner, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; stamens 5; filaments 
subulate ; anthers oblong; staminodes } as long as the filaments, 
quadrate, ciliate along the top; ovary globose ; style filiform, as 
long as the perianth. 
Kabanart Recion: Transvaal ; Batloaka Kraals, Nelson, 408 ! 
Eastern Recon: Natal; near Durban, 100 ft., Wood, 7202! Peddie! Inanda, 
1800 ft., Wood, 4! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 544! 
Imperfectly known species. 
3. A. acuminata (E. Meyer in Drage, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 159) ; 
resembling A. aspera, L., but differing in the leaves being up to 4 in. 
long and 3 in. wide, subacuminate, green and subglabrous; the 
flowers reflexed and the perianth } longer than the bracts. Sonder 
in Linnea, xxiii. 96. 
Eastern Recion: Natal ; Durban, Drége. 
4, A. frumentacea (Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr.7); stems branched ; 
spikes slender, corn-bearing. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality. 
5. A. hamosa (Burchell, Trav. 8. Afr. i. 308, without description). 
Centra, Rearon: Prieska Div. ; at Keikams (Modder Gat) Poort, Burchell, 
1621/?. 
The name was given by Burchell to a plant raised in his garden at Fulham from 
seed he collected ‘in the pass through the mountains near Modder Gat,’’ of 
which no specimen appears to have been preserved. 
26); stem shrubby, hirsute ; leaves elliptic, rather glabrous, verti- 
cillate ; bracts scarious, white. Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 318. 
Sourn AFrica: without locality, Thunberg. 
This spe +ies is not included in Thunberg’s Flora Capensis. 
XVI. ACHYROPSIS, Hook. f. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 4—5-partite, glabrous, not be- 
coming hardened at the base ; segments oblong, subacute, shining. 
Stamens 4—5 ; filaments subulate, connected by a basal membrane ; 
staminodes quadrate, sometimes fimbriate ; anthers with 2 globose 
cells. Ovary ovoid or oblong, compressed ; ovule solitary, suspended 
