Achyropsis.| AMARANTACE& (Cooke and Wright). 431 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal; Linokana, Holub! Streyd Poort, Rehmann, 
5719! Lydenburg, Wilms, 1256! ‘ 
Eastern Region: Pondoland; among scrub, Isunka, Port St. John, 100 ft., 
Galpin, 2865! Griqualand East ; near Clydesdale, Tyson, 2780! and in Bolus & 
MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1225! Natal; Durban, (rant! coast-land, Suther- 
land! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 604 ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
XVII. TELANTHERA, Moquin. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, subtended by a bract and 2 bracteoles. 
Perianth-segments 5, equal or unequal, erect, glabrous or villous. 
Stamens 5; filaments filiform above, united into a tube below ; 
staminodes long ligulate, laciniate at. the apex ; anthers oblong, 
l-celled. Style short ; stigma capitate. Utricle obovoid, enclosed 
by the persistent perianth. Seed lenticular or oblong; embryo 
annular, surrounding the floury albumen. 
Erect or decumbent herbs or undershrubs, usually much-branched and hairy ; 
leaves opposite ; flowers in terminal or axillary clusters. 
Distr1B, Species about 50, chiefly on the shores of South America. 
eee owe 
lenticular, obtuse at the margin, shining blackish. 7. maritima, 
Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 319. 
SourH AFrica: without locality, Sparmann. 
Also in Senegambia, the type on the shores of Tropical Africa and South 
America. 
XVIII, ALTERNANTHERA, Forsk. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, small, white, bracteate and bibracteolate. 
Perianth-segments 5, unequal, the 2 innermost concave. Stamens 2-5 ; 
filaments concave at the base; anthers l-celled. Staminodes long or 
short. Ovary obovoid or obcordate ; ovule solitary, pendulous from 
a long basal funicle ; style very short ; stigma capitellate. Uftricle 
compressed, sometimes with thickened or winged margins ; coty- 
ledons narrow ; radicle superior. 
