24 CVI. AMARANTACE.E (bAKER AND CLARKE). [Celosia. 



much as J in. long, including the petiole. Panicles terminal, inter- 

 rupted, of small close cymes. Perianth -^ in. long, scarious straw- 

 coloured, becoming brown. Filaments linear at the top, without 

 interjected teeth. Ovary subglobose, with (sometimes at least) 2-3 

 basal ovules. Style hardly any ; branches 2 short. Capsule constantly 

 1-seeded.— Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 885. 



&ower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo, Weltoitsch, 6566, 6566b ! 



15. C. poptilifolia, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 239, amend- 

 ing the description, Undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, little hairy. Leaves 

 petioled; blade ovate-lanceolate, 3 by 1^ in., base rounded or trun- 

 cate, hardly subcordate. The linear panicles, 4-7 by J in., in a 

 copious thyrsus at the end of the branches, when young straw-coloured, 

 later dark-coloured. Cymes small, subsessile, close together, hardly 

 confluent. Perianth-segments y^ i^- ^^^g' oblong, scarious white, with 

 a dark mark down the back even when young. Filaments linear, 

 without interjected teeth ; anthers oblong ; pollen globose, 15 ;/ in diam., 

 with a few large tubercles. Ovary with (often at least) 2 or 3 ovules ; 

 style short, with 2 branches. Capsule as long as the perianth, ovoid, 

 invariably 1-seeded. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 212; Aschers. in 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 179 ; Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 180, in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 163. C. h'ocheata, Zarb in Cat. Spec. 

 Bot. Pfund, 33 ? Chamissoa populifolia, Hochst. ex Moquin in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. ii. 239. 



xrile ]«and. Abyssinia : Modat, Schimper, 1038 ! Togodele, Ehrenherg ! 

 White Nile, ^/< tret «/«^</', 938! 1048! Broun! Darfur, Pwrrf^, 29 ! Kordofan, 

 Pfund, 225 ! 



Hochstett^r put this species in CAamwjoa, because he found the capsule l-seeded. 

 Moquin transferred it to Celotia, stating twice over that the capsule is 2-4i-8eeded. 

 Among the abundant material I find the capsule always 1-seeded. Hence has arisen 

 much confusion over this species ; in particular Schweinfurth 938 and 1048 have 

 both been distributed under the name of Celosia anthelmintica, Aschers. 



Imperfectly known species. 



16. C. hastata, Lopr. in Engl.Jahrh. xxx. 106. An erect under- 

 shrub; branches 3— i ft. long. Leaves 1-1§ by ^ in., oblong or linear, 

 petioled, lower hastate, puberulous. Spikes 1§ by i in., dense cylindric ; 

 flowers 2-5 in a cluster. Perianth straw- coloured, \ in. long. Fila- 

 ments subulate, hairy. Style as long as the utricle, 3-fid. Utricle 

 obovoid, circumcissile, with numerous seeds. — Lopr. in Malpighia, xiv. 

 427. 



Moxamb. Dlst. German Eiist Africa: Usambara; Muoa, Hoist, 3124. 



3. HERMBST^DTIA, Reichb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 25. 



Fertile stamens 5 ; sterile stamens developed as processes, some- 

 times alternate with and distinct from the fertile filaments, sometimes 

 fused wholly or partially with these. Otherwise as Celosia ; with which 

 Hermbstoedtia agrees perfectly in habit. 



