50 cvi. AMARANTACE^ (baker AND clarke). [MarcelUa, 



Leaves obovnte m* lanceolate. 



Heads in frnit ovoid. Ovary hairy ... 6. M. Bainenii. 



Heads in fruit elongating. Ovary glabrous. 

 Partial inflorescences of 3 fertile flowers. 



Leaves 2 in. long, silky hairy . . . . 7. M. prostraia. 



Leaves 1 in. long, tomentose . . . .8. M. lanafa. 



Partial inflorescences of 5-6 fertile flowers . . 9. M. tomenlom. 



(See also Centema suhfusca, Hook, f ., in which the staminodes are 0.) 



1. M. mirabilis, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris,\. 625. Glabrous, 

 except the inflorescence. Root long, tough; from its top several 

 branched rigid crooked stems, 3-6 in. long. Leaves 1 by jV in., flat, 

 opposite and apparently whorled. Peduncles terminal, 6 in. long or 

 more; inflorescence a dense spike, ultimately 1) by h in., but when 

 young 1 in. long. Floral leaves orbicular, thin, \ in. in diameter. 

 Fertile flowers i in. long. Ovary hairy at the top. Hairs elongated, 

 enveloping the fruits, pale brown, hardly 10 ;x in diam., simple, with 

 very long cells, smooth. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 888. M. 

 PVelwitschii, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 40, t. l,fig. C. Sericocoma 

 Weluntschii, Hook, f . in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 80 ; Schinz in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 107, in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 182, 

 183, not of Baker. 



Xower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; in sandy thickets by the River Bero, 

 Welwitsch, 6508 ! 



2. M. denudata, Lopi\ in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 41. Branches 1 ft. 

 long, with internodes 4 in. long. Leaves 1-2 by -^j^ in., upper more or 

 less alternate. Peduncles terminal, 2-8 in. long. Inflorescence in fruit 

 4-6 by J in., dense, thickly involved in long pale-brown fine hairs. 

 Bracts to the clusters \ in. long, ovate. Fertile flowers -^^ in. long. 

 Ovary hairy at the top. Hairs enveloping the fruit hardly 10 /* in 

 diam., simple, with long cells, smooth. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 

 889. Sericocoma denudata, Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 30; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 107, in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxi. 182, 183. 



£ower Culnea. Angola : near Mossamedes, Welwifsch, 6503 .! 



3. M. sericea, C. B. CI. Stem annual, erect, glabrous or nearly 

 so. Leaves 2 by yVin., opposite. Inflorescences 4 in. long, interrupted 

 below ; partial inflorescences J in. long, with white hair, of 2-3 fertile, 

 4-6 sterile flowers. Staminal tube without staminodes. Ovary glab- 

 rous. — Sericocoma sericea, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 181, 183, in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 107, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 

 Append, iii. 65. Sericorema sericea, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 40. 



iMOvrer Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland ; Omandongo, 

 Schinz, 2001, Ranfanen ; Great Namaqualand ; Rehobotli, Fleck, 37b ; Damraara- 

 land, Een ! 



Mozamb. Dlst. Ngamiland : Kwebe, Lugard, 181 ! Mrs, Liigard, 165 ! 



