886 CI. AMARANTHACE^. [Cehsia 



fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 ; also in maize fields at Lopollo ; fl. and fr. May 

 1860. No. 6486 In fields near Eme in the Lopollo country ; fl. and 

 fr. end of March 1860. No. 6490. 



8. C. argenteiformis Schinz in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iii. la, 

 p. 100 (1893). 



Hermhstcedtia argenteiformis Schinz in Verh. Bot. Brandenb» 

 xxxi. p, 209 (14 Jan. 1890). Hermstcedtia Welwitschii Baker in 

 Kew Bull. 1897, p. 278 (Sept.). 



MossAMEDES. — A slender, erect or decumbent-ascending, virgately 

 branched, annual herb, 1 to 3 ft. high ; flowers white or sometimes 

 whitish-rosy, in pyramidally arranged spikes. In sandy thickets 

 among low bushes close to the banks of the river Bero, plentifully ; 

 fl. and fr. July 1859 and June 1860. No. 6502. 



9. C. staticodes Hiern, sp. n. 



A herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, puberulous on the young parts, turning 

 dusky in the dry state ; leaves alternate, ovate, acuminate at the 

 subobtuse apex, subtruncate or nearly rounded at or near the 

 base, rather thin, slightly scabrid, repand-entire, 2 to 4 in. long 

 by |- to 2i in. broad ; petiole i to 1 J in. long ; inflorescence like 

 that of Statice, paniculate, pyramidal, terminal, bracteolate and 

 somewhat bracteate or leafy especially below ; panicles about a 

 foot long ; bracteoles paleaceous, ovate, — - to -^^ in. long ; ultimate 

 pedicels very short or obsolete ; perianth-segments 5, white, rather 

 dryly paleaceous, about -i- in. long in flower, i in. long in fruit, 

 oval-oblong, spreading at the time of the flowering, inserted with 

 the stamens at the outside of the base of the perigynous disk ; 

 stamens 5, monadelphous, united at the base into a cup, free and 

 narrowly subulate above, shorter than the perianth ; anthers 

 oblong, 2-celled, attached at the middle of the back, dehiscing 

 longitudinally, introrse ; ovary stipitate, obovoid and subtruncate 

 in flower, ovoid-oblong in fruit, the stipe arising from the bottom 

 of the perianth and penetrating the disk through a central hole ; 

 style solitary, short, crowned with 2 spreading branches ; seeds 2, 

 minutely tuberculate, comparatively dull. 



GoLUNCJO Alto. — At the bushy outskirts of the primitive forest in 

 Sobato de Mussengue on the left-hand side of the Ambaca road from 

 Sange, very rare ; fl. and fr. 16 Dec. 1855. No. 6672. 



2. AMARANTHITS Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 iii. p. 28 {Amarantus). 



1. A. caudatus L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 990 (1753). 



LoANDA. — An annual, erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, rarely branched ; 

 leaves turning purplish before the flowering, edible when cooked ; 

 flowers sometimes greenish, sometimes rosy-purple or nearly blood-red 

 purple. Cultivated and frequently wild on rubbish heaps ; fl. July 

 1854 ; in sandy sunny places about Maianga d'El Rei, quite wild and 

 apparently indigenous ; fl. July 1858 ; cultivated as a pot-herb in Dr. 

 Mendes Alfonso's garden ; fl. and fr. August 1858. Negro name 

 " Jimboa." No. 6612, ;>«r/^,y. 



Cazengo. — In the hot parts of the primitive forest of Mata de 



