MarceUia] ci. amaranthace^. 889 



elongated, brilliantly purple. In sandy places at the river Bero near 

 Cavalheiros ; fl. and f r. beginning of July 1859. Coll. Carp. 874. 



2. M. denudata Lopriore, /.c, p. 41. 



Sericocoma denudata Hook, f., I.e. ; Schinz in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 xxi. p. 182 (1895). 



Mossamedes. — An erect, slender undershrub, 2h to 4 ft. high ; 

 branches virgate ; flowers whitish. In gravelly maritime places near 

 Mossamedes, very plentiful but only in a few spots, in company with 

 Vogelia africawi Lam. (cf. Welw. Coll. Carp. 95 ; ante^ p. 635) ; fl. 

 and fr. July and August 1859. No. 6503. 



4. CYPHOCAEPA Lopriore in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxvii. p. 42 

 (7 April 1899). 



Sericocoma sect. Kyphocarpa, Fenzl in Linnsea xvii. p. 324 

 <1843) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 30. 



1. C. angustifolia Lopriore, I.e., p. 45. 



Gyathula angustifolia Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 328 (1849). 

 Sericocoma aiigustifolia Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. lii. 

 p. 30. S. Chrysurus, var. angustifolia Moq. ex Hook, f., I.e. ; non 

 Meisn. (1843). 



Huilla.— In thickets at the borders of fields in the LopoUo country, 

 rare ; fl. and fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 6489. 



The following has fruits like this species, but the description 

 of the stem, etc., does not agree :— 



Mossamedes.— A perennial, suffruticose, much-branched herb ; stem 

 etc. velvety-tomentose ; flowers spicate, white-greenish ; fruits 

 wrapped in close wool. Between Aguados and Cavalheiros ; fl. and 

 fr. July 1859. Coll. Carp. 875. 



5. SERICOCOMOPSIS Schinz in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxi. p. 184 

 (28 May 1895). 



Sericocoma Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 30, partly. 



1. S. Welwitschii Lopriore in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxvii. p. 42, 

 t. 1, fig. E (7 April 1899). 



Sericocoma Welwitschii Baker in Kew BuU. 1897, p. 278 (Sept.) ; 

 non Hook. f. 



Mossamedes.— An erect, annual herb, 1 to 2 ft. high ; flowers some- 

 what rigid, white-glumaceous. In sandy places at the river Bero, 

 rather rare ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 6501. 



6. CENTEMA Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 31. 



1. C. angolensis Hook, f.. I.e. 



Loanda.— At Alto das Cruzes ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1858. No. 6538. 



2. C. biflora Schinz in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxi. p. 183 (28 May 

 1895), and in Engl. Pfl. Ost Afr., C, p. 172 (19 July 1895). 



Psilotrichum ruhellum Baker in Kew Bull. 1897, p. 279. 



Huilla.— Flowers blood-red. In wooded mountainous places in 

 Morro de Lopollo ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 6509. An annual, 

 erect, branched, slender herb, with linear leaves and cyhndrical blood- 

 red purple spikes of flowers. In Morro de Lopollo ; fl. and fr. April 



