Burkeane. N. O. Amaranthacee. 
TAB. DXCVI. 
TRICHINIUM REMOTIFLORUM. Hook. 
Glabrum, caule elato erecto herbaceo superne paniculato angu- 
lato-striato, foliis fasciculatis lineari-subulatis mucronato- 
acutis, spicis elongatis, floribus solitariis remotis 3-bracteatis, 
bracteis lateralibus intus pilorum fasciculo demum longissimo, 
sepalis lanceolatis apice mucronato-spinosis margine membra- 
naceis dorso hirsutis, antheris linearibus. 
Has. Vaal River, South Africa. Mr. Burke, (n. 105). 
Ernest Meyer has a Trichinium latifolium, discovered by 
Drége in South Africa ; but that is a very different plant from the — 
present, which seems quite to agree with the character of Mr. — 
Brown’s Trichinium, except that I do not find the tufts of silky 
hairs of the perianth becoming more patent in age, and they seem _ 
to have a different origin. At the inner base of each of the — 
side bracteas, while the fiower is young, is a small tuft of hairs, . 
much smaller than the bracteas: but as the flowers advance, 
these tufts increase remarkably in size, so as to attain to 4 
times the length of the bracteas and almost wholly to conceal 
the flower, as shown at /. 3. It appears to me that Euroha 
Capensis and E. glabra of E. Mey. n. 2914, both of Drége’s 
Cape Plants, are allied to, if not identical with, this genus. 
Fig. 1. Young flower with its bracteas. f. 2. Flower removed 
from the bracteas and laid open to show the stamens and 
small woolly pistil. £3. Mature flower, with the 2 tufts 
hairs fully developed :—magnified. 
