Celosia.] cvi. amarantace^ (baker and clarke). 23 



C. trigTjna, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 140, partly, not of Linn. 

 C. acrotmroides, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 25, err ore typogr. 



M"ile X.and. Abyssinia : D>cha-Dscha, 5000 ft., Schimper, 2147 ! 2173 ! 

 British East Africa: Taita ; Ndi Mountain, Hildebrandt, 2530! E:aingo, 3400 It., 

 Johnston ! Uganda ; Makungoni, Elliott, 356 ! 



Mozamb. I>ist. Germau East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; Kahe plains, Vol kens, 

 2206 ! 



On typical examples, at the Britisli Museum, the capsules are nearly all clavate 

 at the top ; but there are a few capsules (on the same stems) which are ovoid, conic 

 at the top into a short style. 



11. C. staticodes, Ilierii in Cat. Afr. PI. Wehv. i. 88G. A herb, 2-3 

 ft. high ; the stem and nerves of the leaves more or less pubescent. 

 Leav^es up to 4 by 2J in., ovate-acuminate, base truncate or subcordate ; 

 petiole 1-2 in. long. Inflorescences 1 ft. long, compound paniculate ; 

 lateral panicles 3-4 in. long, loose. Perianth ^^ in. long, white ; seg- 

 ments elliptic, acute, fuscous, scarious on margins. Stamens of Celosia, 

 Ovary very young ; style hardly any, with 2 branches. — C. deioevreana, 

 Schinz in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxix. 102. 



Ziower G-ulnea. Angola: Golungo Alto ; outskirts of the forest in Sobato de 

 Mussengue, Wehcifsch, 6572 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State, Detvevre, 230 ! 



12. C. leptostachya, Benth. in Hook. Xiger Fl. 491. Stem 

 1-2 ft. long, slender, little divided. Leaves petioled ; blade 2 by |- in., 

 spathulate-ovate-lanceolate. Spike 5 in. long, linear, apparently simple, 

 the small clusters of flowers V in. apart, subsessile. Perianth very 

 small, hardly -^^ in. long, becoming brown in fruit. Filaments linear, 

 short; anthers round. Capsule rather longer than the perianth, ovoid, 

 several-seeded ; style short, shortly 2-fid. — Schinz in Engl, ct Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam, iii. lA, 90, in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 18U ; Duraud ct Schinz, 

 Etudes Fl. Congo, 232 ; Lopr. m Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 107. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Togel, 141 ! Cameroon>! : Batanga, Bates, 

 156 ! Dinklaje, 106. 



South Central. Congo Free State : Bangaln, Hens, 126. 



Bentham says tlie styles are mostly 3-fid : I think not ; the over-ripe extruded 

 styles are recurved, often twisted, and deceptive. Except by the style cliaracter, I 

 do not see how the species is to be separated from weak examples of C. trigyna, Linn. 



13. C. minutiflora, Baker in Keio Bulletin, 1897, 277. Branch 

 15 in. long, slender, little divided. Leaves small, whitened beneath ; 

 lower orbicular, ^-\ in. in diam. ; upper J-| in. long, elliptic-oblong. 

 Panicle l» by \ in., reduced to a spike ; the small clusters of very white 

 flowers standing I in. apart, subsessile. Perianth about y\- in. long. 

 Capsule small, ovoid, several-seeded ; style hardly any, branches 2. 



IVXozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Urambo, iu Un^amwtzi, Han- 



nington ! 



14. C. nana, Baker in Kew Bidletin, 1897, 277. Plant 4 in. high, 

 branched from the base, glabrous. Leaves oblong or ovate, none so 



