52 cvi. AMARANTACE^ (baker AND clahke). [MaixelHa. 



8. M. lanata, 0. B. CI. A small shrub, densely white (or yellowish) 

 tomentose, the leaves soon glabrous. Leaves opposite ; blade up to 1 

 by f in., obovate, very obtuse. Inflorescences ovoid, in fruit elongated 

 into a loose spike 2 in. long of few clusters ; partial inflorescences 

 including 3 fertile and several sterile flowers. Perianth-segments 

 densely villous on the margins. Sterile flowers elongating in fruit into 

 25-80 long straight bristles, spreading on all sides. Staminal tube 

 very short ; filaments 5, at the base triangular, united at an acute 

 angle without intermediate rudiments. Ovary glabrous. — Dasysphcira 

 lanata, Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 158. D. 

 Hobecchii, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 53, t. lA, in Ann. Istit. Bot. 

 Roma, ix. 21, in Malpighia, xiv. 447. 



wile :Land. Soinaliland : Merch&n, Bohrrchi-Brirc/tptti, 4^2. 

 The above description is taken from Loprioi*e's picture. 



9. M. tomentosa, C. B. CI. Felted and glabrous branches mixed 

 together. Pattial inflorescences of 5-0 fertile flowers and a greater 

 number of sterile flowers ; otherwise as M. lanata. — Dc(^ijsj)hcEra 

 tomentosay Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 153; Lopr. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 53. 



Mozaxnb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Volkens. 



12. CYPHOCARPA, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 42. 



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

 bracteoles, which are muticous or spinous not uncinate in flower ; 2-3 

 (rarely 1 ) perfect flowers under each floral leaf, constituting partial 

 inflorescences, which are arranged in compound spikes and full of fine 

 hairs. Perianth-segments oblong or elliptic, often in fruit shortly 

 connate and thickened at the base. Stamens 5 ; filaments linear, 

 united at the base into a (usually) very short cup, with a tooth or 

 oblong process between each two ; anther-cells 2, oblong. Ovary 

 obovoid or ovoid; ovule 1, suspended from a basal funicle ; style 

 linear-cylindric ; stigma simple or minutely fimbriate. Seed orbi- 

 cular, flattened ; embryo annular. — Leaves opposite, linear or elliptic, 

 simple, entire. 



Species 8, in Tropical and South Africa. 



This genus only differs from Marcellia by the presence of sterile stamens as 

 teeth or processes between the filaments. Centema differs (a little only) by having 

 the sterile flowers and perianth-segments rigidly connate to form a burr-like 

 fruit. 



='=Cyphocaiipa. Leaves linear, glabrate. Ovary hairy, 

 with a lateral horn. 

 Inrtorescence elongate-cylindric, obtuse . . 1. C. angusfifolia. 



Intiorescciice shorter, conic at the top . . . 2. C. Petersii. 



*-'=Sericocomopsis. Leaves elliptic or obovate, hairy. 

 Ovary glabrous, obovoid. 

 West African species. Ovary almost urn-shaped. 



Leaves 1^ in. long 3. C. Welwilschii. 



Leaves 4 in. long . .... 4. C. qiiadrangula. 



