22 CVI. AMARANTACE.E (bAKEU AND CLARKE). [Ctlosia. 



in clusters of 1-3, nearly sessile, distant. Style very short ; branches "2, 

 linear-oblong. 



ia"ile Xiand. Uganda : Albert Nvmiza, Stuhlmann, 3052 1 o584. 



9. C. schweinfurthiana, Schinz in Engl. Jahrh. xxi. 17S, 180. 

 A nearly glabrous rambler, attaining 4 or 5 ft. at least. Leaves long- 

 petioled ; blade o in. long, ovate-lanceolate. Linear panicles attaining 

 10 by 1 in., usually less developed, sometimes appearing as elongate 

 simple interrupted spikes. Perianth -^ in. long ; segments oblong, 

 rounded at the top, fuscous on the back,, narrowly scarious on the 

 margin; but in early flower they are (sometimes at least) wholly 

 scarious straw-coloured. Filaments linear, without interjected teeth. 

 Capsule ellipsoid, truncate at the top, often exceeding the perianth, 

 several-seeded. Style very short, with 2 early-recurved branches. — 

 Engl. Pfl. OstrAfr. C. 172 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Wehv. i. 8S4 ; Lopr. 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. Iu7. 



Nile Ziand. Niamniam, Schweinfurfh, 3062 ! Uganda : Albert Edward 

 Nyanza; Scott-Elliot, 8053! 80S7 ! liiuvLMi/.ori, Scott-Elliot, 74:08! liritisli 

 East Africa : Mombasa and Kibe, Wakefield ! Taita, llildehrancU, 2530. 



Xiower Guinea. Angol;\ : Goluiigo Alto, Wehvitsch, 6551 I Pungo Aiulong"), 

 Wehiilsch, 6563 ! 6569 ! Cazengo, Gossweiler, 489! 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Usambara, Buchirahl, 160, 4S6, 

 489! i/o/.v/. -452, Alhers, 1-47. Karagwe ; Hnl^oba, Sfuhlmniin, 1616, 3271, 3s77, 

 4086. Usagara, Stti/ilmauu, 6170 ! Tortuguc'se East Africa 8bire ValU-y, 

 Scott ! 



Var. /3 sav^ilariemis, Scliinz in Bull. Herb. Huiss. 2 ser. iii. 9. Young fruit 

 elongateil, obloDg or narrowly ellipsoid, e.xserted from the perianth. — C. sansi- 

 hariensis, \':itke ex 8chiir/., I.e. 



Mozaxnb. Dlst. German East Africa: U.-aramo; Dar-es-S.ilaam, ifiVf/eirfljjf//, 

 1247! 



10. C. acroprosodes, llochst. in Jiot. Zeit. 1S56, 59(S. A nearly 

 glabrous, loosely -branched plant, 2-3 ft. long at least. Leaves petioled ; 

 blade 2-2^ in. long, cordate ovate-lanceolate. Inflorescences 6-15 by 

 \-\ in., scarious-white ; the small dense cymes of small flowers standing 

 apart, except at the tip of the panicle. Perianth ^.^ in. long ; segments 

 elliptic, obtuse, white. Filaments linear, without interjected teeth. 

 Ovary when young with a thickened spongy top ; capsule a little longer 

 than the perianth, oblonjj-clavate, pale straw-coloured ; the two curved 

 ends of the style projecting out of a small hole depressed in the head of 

 the capsule. Seeds several (o), all in the lower membranous part of the 

 capsule. — C. inUrmedia, llochst. in i3ot. Zeit. 1M5(*», 508; Schinz in 

 Engl. c*e Prantl, Ptlanzenfam. iii. 1 A, 100 ? C. anthehninlica, Ascherson 

 in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 17(1; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 205, Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172; Schinz in Eugl. ct Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iii. lA, 100, and 94 t. 48, fig. G, in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 180. C. oUoiujo- 

 carpa, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 418 ; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 0. 



