Murcellia.'\ cvi. AMARANTACEiE (baker and Clarke). 51 



4. M, Dinteri, Schinz in Mem. Herb. Boiss. xx. 15. Straggling, 

 3 ft. high, clothed especially on the young parts with snow-white felt» 

 Leaves \\ by ^2^ in., opposite and in part alternate. Each partial 

 inflorescence consists of 2 fertile and 2 sterile flowers, the latter clothed 

 with silky hairs ; sterile floweis and bracts red, jV in. long. Staminal 

 tube without staminodes. Ovary hairy. 



JLower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; Abassi, Binter, 

 1452! 



5. M. splendenSy Schinz in Mem. Herb. Boiss. xx. 16. Erect,, 

 perennial, clothed with snow-white felt. Leaves 2 by J-J in., opposite 

 and in part alternate, ultimately glabrate. Inflorescence 3 by 1 in. ; 

 partial inflorescences of 2 fertile and 2 sterile flowers, the latter with 

 long hairs ; sterile flowers and bracts yellow. No staminodes. Ovary 

 hairy. 



]Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Salem, Dinter,. 

 152! 



This has the leaves broader than those of M. Dinteri^ and very much fewer. 



6. M. Bainesii, C. B. CI. Much branched, at least 10 in. high, 

 clothed with soft short white simple hair. Leaves opposite, 1 by J in., 

 narrowly obovate-elliptic. Inflorescences dense, white, ovoid, up to |^ 

 by ^ in. ; partial inflorescences of 2-1 perfect, 4-2 sterile flowers ; 

 hairs on the sterile flowers long, with short joints, scabrid and often 

 branched. Staminal tube ending in 5 depressed-ovate lobes, on the 

 summit of each a very minute white filament (resembling Pseudo- 

 Hermhstcedtia). Ovary subglobose, hairy. — Sericocoina Bairiesii, Hook, 

 f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 31 ; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 107, lOG, fig. 60. Sericocomopsis Bainesii, Schinz 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 185, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. 65. 

 Leucosphcera Bainesii, Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr» 

 153 ; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 41, xxx. 107. 



Mozamb. Dlst. Ngamiland : Kobis to North Shaw Valley, BaLnes ! Kwebe 

 Hills, Mrs. Lugard, 158 ! 



7. M. prostrata, C. B. CL Rather thickly covered with bristly 

 white hairs. Leaves opposite ; lamina 2 J by J in., round -elliptic, very 

 obtuse, shortly acuminate at the base ; petioles J in. long. Inflores- 

 cence dense ; partial inflorescence of 3 fertile flowers and several sterile 

 flowers. Bracts of the sterile flowers linear, spinescent, J in. long ; 

 straight, glabrous at the tip, towards the base with white hair. 

 Stamens 5, without staminodes between them. Ovary glabrous. — 

 Kentrosphcera prostrata, Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 

 153. 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa: Nashoiu Hill, Ugweno Mountain, 

 Volkens^ 472 ! 



For tliis plant I have only Gilg's diagnosis of the genus and some scraps of 

 Volkens, 472. 



