54 cvi. AMARANTACE^ (baker AND clarke). [Cyphocavpa. 



278, not of Hook. f. Sericocomopsis Welwitschii, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxvii. 42, t. IE ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 889. 



:Lower Culnea. Angola: Mossamedes ; in sandy places by the Bero River, 

 Welwitsch, 6501 ! 



XVIoxamb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Ngamiland ; Kwebe, Lugard^ 170 ! 



4. C. quadrangula, C. B. CI. Branches quadrangular, hairy. 

 Leaves opposite, thinly hairy; blade 4 by 1-1 J in., oblong-elliptic. 

 Inflorescence of 4 or 5 short-peduncled spikes (2 J in. long), terminal and 

 from the penultimate axils, springing nearly from the same point. — 

 Sericocoma quadrangvXa, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 7 ; Schinz in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxi. 183, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. 65. Sericocomopsis 

 quadrangula, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 42. 



Ziower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Usakos, 3000 ft,, 

 Marlolh, 1255 ; and without precise locality, Chapman Sf Baines ! 



XWIozamb. Blst. British Central Africa : Ngamiland ; Kwebe Hills, Mrs. 

 Lugard, 221 ! 



This is H larger plant, with larger leaves and inflorescence, than C. Welwitschii ; 

 but the stamens and ovary are so closely alike that I doubt its being specifically 

 different. 



5. C. pallida, C. B. CI. A branched, grey-tomentose undershrub, 

 18 in. high or more. Leaves opposite; blade H by 1 in., obovate- 

 ©lliptic, obtuse, the tomentum ilaking off in patches ; petiole hardly 

 ^ in. long. Inflorescence terminal, short-peduncled, Ijby 'i in., rather 

 loose, not spinous, at least when young ; partial inflorescences J in. long, 

 white at the top, full of hair, with often 2 fertile flowers ; cells of the 

 hairs rather long, minutely scabrid at the joinings. Filaments linear 

 to the base, joined in a very short cup ; the intermediate processes 

 obovate-lacerate, ?j the length of the filaments. Ovary hairy, somewhat 

 obovoid, not truncate. — Sericoconui jxdlida, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 

 1877,70. Sericocomopsis jxillida, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 185; 

 Schweinf. <fe Volk. in Ghika, Pays des Somalis, 201 ; Gilg in Engl, cfe 

 Frantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 152; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 42. 



Wile land. Somaliland : Ahl Mountains, 4000 ft., Hildehrandt, 880! 1521! 

 Harradigit, James Sf 2'hmpp ! and without precise locality, Drake-Brockman, 361 ! 



6. C. Hildebrandtii, C. 5. 67. A branched, hairy (not tomentose) 

 undershrub. Leaves opposite ; blade H by ^ in., elliptic, triangular at 

 either end ; petiole ^j^ in. long. Inflorescences G-7 by | in., straw- 

 colour; partial inflorescences broadly ovoid, lower standing apart, of 

 4-12 fertile flowers (being themselves compound). Hairs in the flower- 

 clusters white, very fine, cells rather long, scabrid at the joinings. 

 Fertile flowers I in. long; perianth-segments lanceolate, subobtuse, 

 sterile flowers not spinescent. Filaments linear to the base, with 

 a quadrate hairy process between each pair ; staminal tube very short. 

 Ovary obovoid, glabrous ; style longer than the ovary. — Sericocomopsis 

 Ilildebrandtii, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 184, 185, in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 



