Cyathula.] cvi. amarantace^e (baker and clarke). 47 



Imperfectly known species. 



11. C, lindaviana, Volkens ex Lopr. in Engl. Jahrh. xxvii. 62 in 

 obs., name only. 



Africa. Without locality or name of collector. Known to me by name only. 



12. C. Merkeri, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxxvi. 207. An undershrub, 

 1 ft. high. Leaves opposite, § by J in., obovate-oblong or oblong, 

 sparingly strigose, base narrowed ; petiole J in. long. Heads spherical, 

 terminal, 4 in. in diam., silvery ; partial inflorescences 3-flowered, of 

 perfect, male or sterile flowers. Perianth-segments J by -^^ in., lanceo- 

 late, rigid. Staminodes ovate-triangular. Style long. 



nEozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Masai Steppe, 3fer^er. 

 Not seen. It is not stated wlietlier the sterile flowers have (or have not) 

 hooked tips, 



10. PUP ALIA, Juss. ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. iii. 31. 



Filaments 5, linear at the top, lanceolate at the base, where they 

 unite at an acute angle into a cup, with no interposed staminodes; 

 otherwise as Cyathula. 



Species 6, in the warmer parts of Africa and Asia. 

 Branches straight ; leaves shortly attenuate at either 



end . . . . . . . . . . 1. P. lappacea. 



Branches more slender, curved ; leaves attenuate at either 



end . . . . . . . . . . 2. P. atropnrpurea. 



1. P. lappacea, Juss. in Ann. Mus, Paris, ii. (1803) 132. Hairy. 

 Stem 2-4 ft. high. Leaves often 4 by IJ in. (sometimes nearly 7 in. 

 long), elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate at either end ; petiole usually 

 short, sometimes 1 in. long. Inflorescences linear, terminal, 2-4 

 (sometimes 10) in. long; partial inflorescences sometimes at regular 

 intervals, sometimes in globose distant clusters, J— J in. long, short- 

 ellipsoid or subglobose ; sterile bracts with prominent exserted rigid 

 hooked tips, copiously hairy with very fine long wool. Fertile flowers 

 in the partial inflorescences, or more seldom 2-3. Filaments 5, at 

 the base lanceolate and united at an acute angle into a cup, with 

 no intermediate teeth. — Moquin in DC. Prodr xiii. ii. 331 ; A. E-ich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 217; Hook. Niger Fl. 494; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 iv. 724 ; Zarb in Cat. Spec. Bot. Pfund, 33 ; Garcke in Peters, Reise 

 Mossamb. Bot. 504 ; Aschers, in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 180 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 995 ; Schinz in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 

 lA, 108, and 93, fig. 46, E, H, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 164, 

 v. Append, iii. 65, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 207 ; Durand & De Wild, in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. xxxvi. 85. P. distantiflora, A. Tent. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. 217 ? ; 

 of. Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. ¥\. Aethiop. 181. Achyranthes 

 lappacea, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 204, ed. ii. 295, in great part. Desnwchceta 



