FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. AAT 
In solo salino circa Port Natal (V. c.) Jun. 1839. Krauss, 
n. 221. 
2. Sericocoma (Euchroa) chrysurus, n. sp., glaberrimum, 
basi suffruticosum ? caulibus simplicibus, erectis ; foliis op- 
positis v. suboppositis, lanceolatis, acutis, attenuato-subpe- 
tiolatis, subaveniis; spica terminali, cylindrica, obtusa, sim- 
plici v. basi subramosa; sepalis lanceolatis, muticis, dorso 
inferne ovarioque villosis. 
In graminosis ad sylvarum margines in solo arenoso prope 
Port Natal (V. c.) Jul. 1839. Dr. Krauss, n. 294. 
Caules herbacei pedales-sesquipedales, teretes, tenuiter 
sulcato-striati, infra medium paucifoliati, superne aphylli v. 
folio unico a reliquis et spica longe remoto preediti, internodiis 
inferioribus 12.3 poll. longis. Folia circ. bipollicaria, 4-5 
lin. lata, plana, subcarnosula, lete viridia, costa media sub- 
tus prominula, venis vix conspicuis. Spica terminalis 
solitaria, aureo-sericea, 1}-3-pollicaris, nunc simplicissi- 
ma, nunc ima basi spicas 1-2 sessiles vix semipollicares 
emittens. Floris structura, exceptis staminodiis, omnino 
Trichinii R. Br. prodr. p. 414. 
Perhaps our plantis the same as Sericocoma avolans, Fenzl 
in Hb. Drége, n. 895 (Endl. gen. Mantissa 1, p. 33) which I 
have not seen ; nor am I aware of its being described any- 
where. In outward appearance of the spikes it has a striking 
resemblance with Pupalia Schimperi Hochst. in Schimper's 
Abyssinian collection, sect. I, n. 3, but this, besides being 
all over hairy and having much larger leaves and flowers, is 
generically distinct, having the lateral flowers sterile and 
changed into thin spinescent hooks and the fertile stamens 
alternating with membranous staminodia, and therefore is a 
true Pupalia, Another species, determined as a Trichinium 
by E. Meyer, and distinct from ours, occurs among Drége's 
plants. 
3. Achyranthes aspera, Linn, 'Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 215, E. 
Mey. in Hb. Drége. In sylvis primitivis prope flum. Gou-- 
kamma, distr. George (IV. C. b.) Febr. 1839. — n. ax 
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