26 CM. AMARANTACEit: (baker AND clarke). [Hermbslcedtia, 



? partly; Schinz in Engl, tt; Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 100, ? partly; 

 Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 106, ? partly. H. elegatis, var. /3 recurra, 

 Moquin in DC Prodr. xiii. ii. 247. Celosia recurva, Burchell, Travels, 

 ii. 226.— Not Lestihoiidesia ? Caffra, Meisn. 



£ower Guinea. Hererolaml, Fischer^ 27. 



Also in South At'iica. 



Lestihoudesial Caffra, Meisn. (in Hook. London Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 549, 

 misprinted 449), is a much larger plant than this, with spathulate-oblong leaves; 

 Meisner's type is Krauss 37 from Natal, in the British Museum, in which the 

 stvles are ail 2-fid. It was perhaps owing to the difficulty Meisner had in seeing 

 them 3-fid that he put a ? after the genus Lestiboudesia. 



2. m^ele^BTLSy Moquin in DC. Prodr. idu. ii. 247. Branches 12-18 

 in. long, divided. Leaves 1-1 J in. long, linear or narrow-oblong, 

 glabrous. Spikes terminal, cylindric, nearly continuous, J-| in. broad, 

 2-9 in. long. Perianth nearly J in. long. Filaments very short, linear ; 

 anthers oblong ; interjected processes much overtopping the stamens, 

 divided at the top into two lanceolate spreading segments. Ovary and 

 capsule as of H. Caffra. — Schinz in Engl, k Prantl, Pllanzenfam. iii. 

 lA, 100; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 5, 104, fig. 1 G, 106. Celosia 

 odorata, Burchell, Travels, i. 389 ; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii, 244. 



Mozamb. I>lst. liechuanaland : Kobis to North Shaw Valley, Barnes ! 

 Kalahari Dosirt, near liachakuru, Lugard^ 2361 

 Frequent in South Africa. 



3. H. dammarensis, C. B. Clarke. Nearly glabrous. Leaves 

 J-1 by J-J in., very obtuse, p?irallel-sided. Spikes several, 1-4 by 

 |-J in., white, dense. Perianth i in. long ; segments broadly elliptic, 

 very obtuse. Staminal tube large ; interjected processes bifid, about 

 as long as the stamens. Young fruit ovoid ; style very short ; branches 

 3, thick, rather long, recurved. 



ZiOwer Guinea. Dammaraland, Fen ! 



This species is very aistinct by the usually broad rounded white perianth- 

 segments. 



4. H. Gregory!, C. B. Clarke. A branched rigid undershrub, 10 in. 

 high, nearly glabrous. Leaves 4 by | in., strongly obovate, rounded at 

 the top, much narrowed at the base. Spikes very dense, 2 by | in., 

 white. Perianth \ in. long; segments round-elliptic. Processes 

 (interjected between the linear filaments) about as long as the fertile 

 stamens, deeply bifid. Young capsule ovoid-conic ; style about J the 

 length of the capsule ; branches 3, small. 



utile &and. British East Africa : Tana River, Oregoiy, 



5. H. argenteiformis, Schivz in Verhandh. Bot. Ver. Brandeitb. 

 xxxi. 2U9. Kearly glabrous, branched, 2 ft. high. Leaves 1^ by \ in. 

 Spikes terminal, dense, continuous, scarious white, f in. broad, long- 

 cylindric or ovoid. Perianth \-'i in. long ; segments broad-oblong, 

 triangular at the tip, 3-iierved on the back. Filaments fertile 5, ovate- 

 oblong (by union with the barren filaments), the apparent filament 



