Celosia.] cvi. amarantaceje (baker and clarke). 21 



to spikes ; wliile in C. tngyna (Scliweinf urth, 782, 1050 ; &c.) the branches of the 

 linear panicle are compound cyinulose. 



5. C. pandurata. Baker in Kew Bulletin^ 1897, 276. Stem erect, 

 2 J ft. high, divided, thinly hairy. Lower leaves long-petioled ; blade 3-4 

 in. long, pandurate, sub-3-lobed, the two lateral lobes ovate or oblong, 

 IJ in. long. Panicles J to 4 in. long, J in. broad, condensed into 

 continuous somewhat dense pseudospikes, scarious, straw-coloured, in 

 fruit fuscous. Perianth \ in. long; segments oblong, acute, when 

 young 1-nerved or obscurely nerved, in fruit sometimes strongly 5- 

 nerved. Filaments linear, without interjected teeth ; anthers oblong. 

 Style longer than J the capsule, with 2 ascending linear branches. 

 Capsule nearly as long as the perianth, usually about 3-seeded. — C. 

 cimeifolia. Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1807, 296 partly {i.e. as to Meller's 

 example which has the lower leaves 3-lobed). 



Mozamb. Bist. Gennnn East Africa: Usanibara; Musa, Hoist, 3124! 

 Portuguese East Africa : below Shigogo on the Lower Zambesi, Kirk ! lower part 

 of the Shire Valley, Meller ! 



0. C. loandensis, Bake^' in Kevj Bulletin, 1897, 277. A nearly 

 glabrous rambler, the numerous elongate panicle-bearing branches 

 sf)ringing at right angles from a main bi-anch. Leaves petioled ; blade 

 \^-'2, in. long, ovate-lanceolate. Inflorescences 2-id by |-J in. ; lateral 

 cymes small, few-flowered, or often 1 -flowered, not confluent. Perianth 

 \ in. long ; segments oblong, acute, scarious, straw-coloured, on the 

 back many-nerved, often somewhat fuscous. Filaments linear, without 

 interjected teeth ; anthers oblong. Style hardly half the length of the 

 young capsule, with 2 long ascending branches. Capsule about as long 

 as the perianth, usually 2-3seeded. — C. laxa, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 885 partly, not of Schumacher. 



Xiower Guinea. 'Lower Cow^o, Smith ! Angola: Loantla, F^eZitJt7*cA, 6537b ! 

 Gossweiler, 363 ! Golungo Alto, 1000-2400 ft., IFehoitseh, 6578. 



The styles I find in these plants uniformly 2-fid. But the plants will not match 

 C laxa in habit or iuttorescence. 



7. C. macrocarpa, Volkens ex Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 6. 

 Glabrous. Leaves IJ by f in., ovate, acute; base truncate or almost 

 cordate, shortly decurrent; petiole hardly \ in. long. Spikes long, 

 linear, rather dense, the flower-clusters hardly pedicelled. Capsule 

 ovoid, nearly 4 in. long, inflated. 



Mozamb. Slst. Kilimanjaro; 4500 ft., VolkenSy 22,-k^ \ 

 From the fragments seen in Herb. Schinz, this species must bear a close general 

 resemblance to C. loandensis. Baker. 



8. C. stuhlmanniana, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 419. 

 Glabrous. Leaves alternate ; blade 2 J by J in., elliptic-lanceolate, base 

 cuneate, tip lanceolate, acuminate ; petiole \ in. long. Spikes axillary, 

 1-2 together, peduncled, linear, 4 in. long, apparently simple ; flowers 



