Celosia.] cvi. amarani'Ace.e (baker and clarke). 19 



petioled ; blade ovate to lanceolate, often 3 in. long. Inflorescence of 

 terminal white linear panicles 2-4 by ^ in., much looser than those of 

 C. argentea, often somewhat interrupted. Perianth J- J in. long ; 

 segments oblong, 1 -nerved, scarious, straw-coloured, acute. Filaments 

 5, linear, with no teeth between them ; anthers short, elliptic. Capsule 

 ovoid, narrowed at the top, hidden by the perianth ; style i-| the 

 length of the capsule, 3-fid. Seeds several. — Moquin in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. ii. 'Ill ; Hook. Niger Fl. 491 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 

 885 partly {i.e. excl.6'. loandensis); Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172; Dur. & 

 Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 232 ; Dur. & De Wild, in Comptes-rendus 

 Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 85 ; Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 180; Schlecht. 

 West-afr. Kautsch.-Exped. 287. 



Upper Guinea. Seneganibia, Heiulelot, 570! Gambia, Brown-Lester, 17! 

 Sierra I^eone : near Kambiii, Scott-ElUot, 4227 1 near Berria, Scott-EUiot, 5403 ! 

 Liberia, Whyte. Gr.ind Bassa, Vogel, 82 ! Gold Coast: Abnri Hills, Johnson, 412 I 

 Lag-OS, -BarZ'e/-, 20145 ! Yoniba, SchlecJiter, l^O^Ql Cameroons : liipindi, ZenTcer^ 

 2647 ! Yaunde, 2500 ft., Zenker et Staudt, 165 ! Northern Nigeria : Borgu, 

 Barter ! Bornu, Elliott, 123 ! Fernando Po, Vogel, 158 ! JIann, 80 ! 



M"ile Iiand. Niamniam : by tbe River Nabambisso, Schweinfurth^ 2971 



Iio-wer Guinea. Lower Congo: Bingila, Dupiiis ; and without precise 

 locality, /S/r.iM .' An{j;'ola : Loanda, Welwitsch, Qo^^ \ 6558b! Golungo Alto, 1000- 

 2400 ft., Welwitsch.Qoni Huilla, 7^6/^4^*0^,6495! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Bangala, 1000 ft., Hens, C, 175 ! Mon- 

 buttu : Munza, Schweinfurth, 3479 ! 



Var. ^pilosa, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 ser. iii. 9. Stem feebly sparsely hairy. 

 Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Rio del Rey, Johnston ! 



3. C. cuneifolia. Baker iiiKew Bulletin, 1897, 21Q, partly. Ends 

 of the 3 branches seen 15 in. long, nearly bare of leaves, with several 

 lateral branches, each terminated by a linear panicle. Leaves 1-1 J in. 

 long, oblong, obscurely pubescent. Linear panicles 1-4 by J in., alto- 

 gether resembling those of C. laxa, Schumach. ; perianth, stamens, style, 

 capsule and seeds, undistinguishable from those of C. laxa, Schumach. 



XMCozamb. I>lst. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Sluipanga, 

 Kirk ! Lower Sliire ; Moramballa Hill, Kirk ! 



The stem and leaves are more pubescent than those of C. laxa. Baker also cited 

 a plant collected by Meller in the Shire valley which has jjandurate leaves, and is 

 here referred to C. pandiwata. 



4. C. trigyna, Linn. Mant. 212. A branched, straggling, nearly 

 glabrous herb, 1-4 ft. high. Lower leaves long-petioled ; blade 1-5 in. 

 long, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate. Linear panicles 4-12 in. long, 

 interrupted, sometimes reduced to a nearly simple spike ; sometimes the 

 distant globular cymes are 1 in. in diam., with numerous 6owers. 

 Perianth ^ in. long, white, straw-coloured, or dusky ; segments oblong, 

 subacute, 1-nerved or nerveless. Filaments 5, without interjected 

 teeth; anthei-s short elliptic. Style hardly any; branches 3, rather 

 long. Capsule subglobose, several-seeded. — Hook. Niger Fl. 491 ; 



