Cyathula.] CVI. AMAKANTACEiE (bAKER AND CLAEKE). 43 



The diagnosis of *' Cyathula" given by Loureiro is worthless and may include 

 various things ; but he cites, us one of his original species, Rumph. Herb. Amhoin. vi. 

 t. 11, which is (as Willdenow notes) certainly Cyathula prostrata, Blume. Desmo- 

 cheeta DC. (Cat. Hort. Mcnspel. 102) is diagnosed as having no staminodes, and is 

 stated to be equal to Pupalia, Kunth, It is therefore impossible to apply the name 

 Desmochceia to our species of Cyathula unless by a writer who unites the genera 

 Cyathula and Pupalia. Hiern keeps these two genera separate, and then applies 

 the name Desmochcjeta to Cyathula, Benth. et Hook, f., and Pupal to Pupalia^ 

 Juss. 



Flowers spicate, i.e. subsessile. 



♦Inflorescence long, the lower partial inflorescences 

 usually distinct ; flowers ^-\ in. long. 

 Flowers t^^-xo i"- long> often 2 in a cluster . , 1. C. prosfrata. 



Flowers \ in. long, usually solitary . . . 2. C. geminata. 



♦♦Inflorescences globose, dense, the partial inflores- 

 cences stellate in fruit ; flowers \ in. long, or 

 more. 

 Heads solitary, or a few subterminal. 



Style longer than the ovary . . . . 3. C. glohulifera. 



Style short . . . . . . . 4. C erinacea. 



Heads 15-30 in a close leafless panicle . . 5. C polycephala, 



♦♦♦Inflorescences cylindric, hardly interrupted at the 

 base ; flowers \ in. long or more. 

 Inflorescence nearly 1 in. wide . . . . 6. C. schimperiana. 



Inflorescences -i—g in. wide. 



Branches numerous, often close . . . 7. C. cylindrica. 



Rambler, with elongate branches . . . 8. C. Mannii. 



Inflorescence ovoid-conio, less than ^ in. wide . 9. C. distorta. 

 Flowers racemose ; lower distinctly pedicellate . . 10. C. pedicellata. 



1. C. prostrata, Blume, Bijdr. 549. Suberect, 1-3 ft. high, 

 branched, not woody, hairy or ultimately nearly glabrous. Leaves 1-4 

 in. long, ovate or obovate, narrowed at either end. Spikes terminal, 

 peduncled, ultimately linear, 2-G by |- in., at the top dense, at the base 

 ultimately lax ; partial inflorescences y^r-yV ^^- ^^^^j ultimately fuscous, 

 reflexed, ovoid, with 1-3 flowers ; bracts aristate, many of the spines 

 rigid, ultimately hooked. Perianth -segments yV in. long, mostly muticous, 

 sometimes ending in spines. Filaments 5, linear to the base, with 

 processes (sterile filaments) between them. Ovary obovoid, glabrous ; 

 style as long as the ovary ; stigma subcapitate. Seed ellipsoid, com- 

 pressed ; embryo curled — Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 326 ; Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 493 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 723 ; Schinz in Engl, k 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 108, in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 173; Lopr. 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 63 in obs., xxx. 28 in obs. ; Durand & Schinz, 

 Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 233, partly. Achyranthes prostroia, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 

 ii. 296. A. Thonningii, Schumach. Beskr. Guin. PI. 139. Desmochceta 

 prostrata, DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 102 ; Wight, Ic. t. 733 ; Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 890. D. micrantha, DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 

 102. Pupalia Tho7i7tingii, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 333. Auris 

 canis femiiia, Rumph. Herb. Amboin. vi. 26, t. 11. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone; Sherboro, Scott -Elliot, 584-4! I near Wallia, 

 Scott-Elliot^ 4133 ! and without precise locality, Don ! Barter I Liberia : region 



