44 CVI. AMARANTACEiE (bAKER AND CLARKE). [Cyathula, 



of Kakatown, Whyte ! Gold Coast : Akim plains, Johnson ! Assin Ynn Kumasi, 

 Cummins^ ]23 ! Togo, Warnecke, 180 ! Lagos : Ikorim, Millson ! L&gos, Molonei/ ! 

 French Congo : Upper Ubange River, Chevalier ^ 5684 ! Cameroons, Braun ! Fer- 

 nando Po, Vogel, 33 ! Barter ! Mann, 39 ! 



Srile land. Niamniam : Kulenjo, Sehweinfurth, 2841 ! Uganda, Scott- 

 miiot, 7346 ! 



]bower Culnea. Princes Island, Welwitsch^ 6540 ! Gaboon : Sibange Farm, 

 Soyaux, 7 ! Lower Congo : Lukungu, Hens, A, 338 ! Angola : Golungo Alto, Wel- 

 ivitsch, 6550 ! 6579 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Bangala, Demeuse. 

 Also in the Mascarene Islands and South-east Asia. 



2. C. geminata^ Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 330. Stem and 

 leaves nearly glabrate. Leaves 5 by 2 J in., gradually narrowed at 

 either end, subsessile. Partial inflorescences \ in. long, with 1 

 perfect flower, oblong, or in fruit ellipsoid, scarcely ovoid ; otherwise 

 as C . prostrata^ Blume. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 494; Schinzin Engl. 

 & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 108. C. po'ostrata, Durand & Schinz, 

 Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 233, partly. Achyranthes geminata? Schumach. 

 Beskr. Guin. PI. 138. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : at the confluence of the Niger and Benue 

 Rivers, Barter ! Fernando Po ; Vogel, 253 ! 258 ! 



Kower Guinea. Lower Congo : Lutete, 2000 ft., Hens, A, 233 ! 



I here describe the plant of Vogel, the " type " of Bentham. As to Cyathula 

 geminata, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 330, it is copied only from Schumacher, and 

 differed from C. prostrata in having three spikes at the end of the branches — in- 

 stead of one — a difference of no importance. In spite of the authority of Bentham 

 and Schinz, 1 doubt whether C. geminata is separable from C. prostrata, 



3. C. globulifera, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 329. Stem 3-4 ft. 

 long, hairy. Leaves 2-4 J in. long, ovate or obovate, narrowed at either 

 end, hairy beneath (at least when young) ; petioles ^-§ in. long. Heads 

 globose, 1-1^ in. in diam., straw-coloured, very dense, sometimes 1 or 

 2 at the ends of the branches, sometimes 3-5 in cymose inflorescences 

 (rarely leafless). Partial inflorescences with usually 1 perfect flower, 

 the imperfect flowers (bracts) ending in strong hooked bristles. 

 Perianth-segments \ in. long, mostly muticous. Staminodes small, 

 oblong. Ovary obovate, glabrous ; style longer than the ovary. — Zarb 

 in Cat. Spec. Bot. Pfund, 33 ; Schinz in Engl. &l Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iii. lA, 107, fig. Gl, B, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173, Engl. Hochge- 

 birgsfl. Trop. Afr. 206, partly ; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 63 in obs., 

 XXX. 28 in obs. Desmochceta uncinulata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 i. 890. Pupal huillensis, Hiern, I.e. 892. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitseh, 6564! Huilla ; near 

 Lopollo, Welwitseh, 6493 ! 



Mozaxnb. Dlst. Geimnn East Africa: east shore of Lake Tanganyika; 

 Scott-Elliot, 8340! Kilimanjaro, Isew ! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; 

 Namasi, Cameron, 47! Mount Chira<lzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! Manganja Hills, 



