Pupalia.] CVI. AMARANTACEiE (bAKER AND CLARKe). 49 



obovoid ; style twice as long as the ovary — Lopr. in Ann. Istit. Bot. 

 Roma, ix. 21, and in Malpighia, xiv. 446. 



mile Kand. Somaliland, Rohecchi, 491. 



Not seen. I have not seen tomentoso indumentum in Pupalia. The description 

 of Loprlore does not say definitely that there are no staminodes. 



4. P. mollis, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 333. Stem and leaves 

 beneath tomentose. Bracteoles ending in hooks, few. — Ackyranthes 

 mollis, Thonn. in Schumach. Beskr. Guin, PI. 137. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: common, Thonning. 



5. P. Thonningii, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 333. Branches 

 tetragonous, hairy. Leaves ovate-rhomboid, hairy above, nearly bare 

 beneath. Spike terminal, solitary, racemose. Bracteoles ending in 

 hooks, few. — Ackyranthes Thonningii, Thonn. in Schumach. Beskr 

 Guin. PI. 139. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Aquapim, Thonning. 



1 have no example of this or of the preceding species ; nor can I find that any 

 author (since Schumacher) has seen either of them. 



G. P. affinis, K. Schum. ex Engl, in Hans Meyer^ East Afr. 369. 

 nSozamb. Bist> German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Meyer. 

 I have failed to find any description of this. 



11. MARCELLIA, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 025. 



Perfect flower supported by 1-2 sterile flowers reduced to bracts or 

 bracteoles, which are spinose, not uncinate; 2-3 (rarely 1) perfect 

 flowers under each floral leaf, constituting partial inflorescences, which 

 are arranged in dense compound spikes, and full of fine hairs. Perianth- 

 segments oblong or elliptic. Stamens 5 ; filaments linear, united into 

 a cup (without intermediate processes) by a narrow sinus ; anthers with 

 2 oblong cells. Ovary obovoid ; ovule 1, suspended from a basal funicle ; 

 style about as long as the ovary ; stigma small, nearly capitate, slightly 

 penicillate. Seed orbicular, flattened ; embryo annular. — Leaves oppo- 

 site, simple, entire. 



Species 15, in Tropical and South Africa. 



The genus, in characters, hardly differs from Pupalia ; tlie sterile flowers 

 become hardened, and curve over the ripe fruit ; but tiie heads are without the 

 hooked, spines of Pupalia. 

 Leaves linear. 



Stem and branches nearly glabrous. 



Inflorescence not interrupted at the base. 



Leaves 1 in. long ; internodes 1-2 in. long . 1. M. mirahilis. 



Leaves 2 in. long ; internodes 2-4 in. long . 2. M. demidata. 

 Infloi'cscence interrupted at the base . . .3. M. sericea. 



Stem and branches tomentose. 



Partial inflorescences red 4. Jlf. Dinteri. 



Partial inflorescences yellow . . . .5. M. splendens. 



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