4G cvi. AMARANTACE.*: (baker AND clarke). [Cyathula. 



7. C. cylindrica, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 328. Innova- 

 tions brown hairy ; mature stem (often much branched) with the 

 leaves nearly glabrate, and usually smaller than in C. schimperiana, 

 Soikes usually more numerous and smaller than in C. schimjyeriana^ 

 J-2 by J in. ; partial inflorescences similar, but rather smaller, scarcely 

 exceeding J in. in length, ovoid, often with 2 perfect flowers. — Lopr. 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 64 in obs., xxx. 2H in obs. ; Schinz in Engl. 

 <k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 107, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173. 

 C. albida, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 53, e descript. 



Xile Xiand. Hritish East Africa : Lake Naivasha, Johnston ! Galunka, 

 Kaessner, 806 ! between Machakos and Kikiyu, 5000-0000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6590 I 

 rocks above Lake Elmcteita, 6000-7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6716 ! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5000 ft., 

 Volkens, 592! Usambara; Kwa Msbnza, Hoist, 8938! Hritish Central Africa: 

 Nyasiiland; Shire H\crh]a,nih, Buchanan, 132! 601! Monnt Chiradzuln, Whyte ! 

 Meller ! Plateau of Nyika Mountains, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte ! 

 Also in Madagascar. 



8. C. Mannii, Baker in Kew Bulleiia, 1897, 278, partly. A 

 rambler 0-10 ft. high, with long little-divided branches and long inter- 

 nodes, rusty hairy ; otherwise as C . cylindrica, Moquin. — C. cyliiidrica, 

 var. schimperiana, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 214. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando l*o, Mann, 296 ! Cameroon Mountain, 7000- 

 10,000 ft.. Mann, 2007 ! Johnston ! 



Wile Iiand. Hritisli East Africa : IJkamb.i ; Scott-Elliot, 6453 ! 7702 ! 



XVIozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Xyasaland ; Panda Peak, 5000- 

 6000 ft., McClounie, 148! 



This is very near C. cylindrica, Moquin, and perhaps should not be specifically 

 separated. 



9. C. distorta, C. B. CI. A crooked, hairy undershrub, 2-'d ft. high, 

 much branched. Leaves opposite; blade 1 by J-f in., ovate; petiole 

 J in. Spikes terminal, and on very short axillary peduncles, solitary, 

 § by \ in. when young, doubtless elongating in fruit ; very similar to 

 the heads of C. Mannii, Baker, but smaller. — Besmochceta distorta, Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 891. 



liower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in thickets at Lopollo, JVelwitsch, 

 6487 1 



10. C. pedicellata, C. B. CI. Branches 2 ft. long, slender, slightly 

 hairy, much divided. Leaves opposite, slightly hairy ; blade attaining 1 J 

 by I in., elliptic, narrowed at either end ; petiole less than J in. Racemes 

 terminal on the branches, 2-4 in. long, peduncled, loose at the base both 

 in flower and in fruit ; lower pedicels attaining ^., in. Clusters both in 

 flower and in fruit resembling those of C. prostrata, Blume. 



Xlle Xiand. Uganda: Entebbe, 3900 ft., ^yoty/?, 8 ! 



