Cyathula.'] cvi. amarantace^ (baker and clarke). 45 



Meller ! near Muata Manga stream. Kirk ! and without precise locality, Btichoian, 

 1441 ! 



Also in Madagascar. 



Var. /3 ahyssinica, Moquiu in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 329. A more slender plant, 

 with smaller leaves, and heads ^-f in. in diam. — C. glohulifera, A. Rich. Tent. 

 Fl. Abyss, ii. 216; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 179 ; Schinz in Bull, 

 Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 164. 



JTlle Aand. Eritrea : Mount Bizen, 6800 ft., Schioeinfurth Sf Siva, 1S46 ! 

 near Golei, Schweinfurth, 589 ; Lalamba Mountain, near Keren, Schioeinfurth, 

 977. Abyssinia : Tigre, Schimper^ 224 ! Adowa, Schimper, 392 ! Uganda ; Chu- 

 rozi, Bagshawe, 101 ! 



4. C. erinacea, Schinz in Engl. Jahrh, xxi. 189. Annual, her- 

 baceous, erect. Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong-ovate or elliptic, 

 acute, attenuate at the base, sparsely hirsute ; inflorescence globose ; 

 perfect flowers arranged with other imperfect flowers in globose 

 clusters; segments of the imperfect flowers finally produced into 

 elongate bristles; staminodes dilated at the emarginate top; style 

 short.— Schinz in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173. 



XVXozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Turn, Stuhlmann, 4253 ! and without 

 precise locality, Fischer, 70 ! 



This description is copied from Schinz. Except by the short style (which I 

 have not seen) the species hardly seems to differ froui C. glolulifera. 



5. C. polycephala. Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 278. Heads 

 } in. in diam., 15-28 in a terminal leafless panicle 10 by lJ-3 in.; 

 otherwise as C. glohulifera, Moquin. 



M"ile Xiand. British East Africa ; Kapti Plateau, 5000-6000 ft., Thomson. 

 Maramata, Elliott, 3001 Galunka, Kaessner, 863! 



XHozamb. Bist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5200 ft., 

 Volkens, 430 ! 



6. C. schimperiaua, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 328. Stem 

 3 ft. high, herbaceous, stout, ultimately glabrescent in the lower part. 

 Leaves opposite, petioled, 3-5 in. long, broadly elliptic, narrowed at 

 either end, softly hairy. Inflorescence 1 (or 2) on terminal peduncle, 

 3-4 by 1 in., dense, shining white ; partial inflorescences f- J in. long, 

 ovoid, with frequently 2 perfect flowers; outermost bracts ovate, scarious ; 

 sterile or rudimentary flowers few, ending in strong hooked spines. 

 Perianth nearly \ in. long, hairy; segments lanceolate, mostly mucronate. 

 —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 216 ; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. 180 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 206, partly ; Schinz in 

 Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 107, partly, in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 173 ? ; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 64 in obs. 



JTtle Iiand. Abyssinia: Mount Kuhhi, Schimper, 3! and without precise 

 locality, Quartin-Dillon (^ Petit, 941 Schimper, 326 I 8671 British East Africa: 

 Aberdare Mountains, James ! 



Mozam1>. Slst> Kilimanjaro; Marangu, ex Schinz, 



