56 cvi. AMARANTACELE (baker AND clarke). [Ce7itema. 



scabrid at the joinings of the cells, still finer than in the preceding 

 genera. Stamens of the genus ; staminodes obovate, toothed. Ovary 

 glabrous. — Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 107; Hiem 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 889 ; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 47 in obs. 



I^ower Guinea. Angola : Loanda, Wehvitsch, 6538 ! Rattray I Oossweiler ! 

 221 ! 291 ! 



2. C. Kirkii, Hook.f, in Benth. et Uook.f. Gen. PL iii. 31. Stem 

 erect, 2-3 ft. high, smooth. Leaves opposite, 2 by J in., when young 

 hairy, soon glabrate. Inflorescences terminal, ped uncled, straw- 

 coloured, up to 2^ by J in., very dense, in fruit rigid but very slightly 

 prickly; short ovoid inflorescences not rare. Partial inflorescences 

 usually with 2 fertile flowers ; sterile flowers short, the midrib ex- 

 current as a minute spine with scanty tine long hair on the back, 

 which often disappears altogether in fruit. Processes between the 

 filaments obovate, toothed. Ovary ovoid, hairy, narrowed at the top. 

 — Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 47 in obs. ; Schinz in Engl, k Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 107, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172. Achyranthes 

 hrevifloray Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1807, 280. 



IVlle ]Lancl. British East Africa: Kibe to Galla Country, Wakefield! 

 between Mombasa and Witu, Whyte ! Ngonieni, 2500 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6365 ! 



Mozamb. Bist. Lake Tanganyikji, Cameron! British Central Africa: 

 Nyasaland; west shore of Lake Nyasa, Kirk! Simons! Likoma \s\qs, Johnson ! 

 Elephant Marsh, Scott ! between Kondowe and Karonga, WItyte ! and without 

 precise locality, Buchanan, 1158 ! 



3. C. biflora, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 183. Stem erect, 2-3 

 ft. high, scabrid with tubercles on the ribs. Leaves opposite, up to 

 3 by J in. (usually much smaller), pubescent ; petioles in the large 

 leaves J in. long, in the small leaves hardly any. Inflorescences 

 terminal, peduncJed, up to 2 by J in., very dense, with often ovoid 

 heads J in. long on the same stem. Partial inflorescences with 1 or 2 

 fertile flowers, brown-reddish or red ; sterile flowers with scanty long 

 fine hairs on their back, the bracts ending in straight scabrid short 

 spines. Staminal tube and sterile filaments of the genus. Ovary 

 ovoid, hairy, conic at the top. — Schinz in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzen- 

 fam. iii. lA, 107, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 889 ; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 47 in obs. C.polygonoideSy 

 Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 48, in Malpighia, xiv. 442. Fsilotrichuvi 

 ruhellum. Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 279. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Morro de Lopollo, ]]'elwitsch, 6509! 

 Hnmpata; Chella ^Mountains, Johnston! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Uhehe, 5000 ft., Goetze, 656 ! 



The Nyasa example is altogether larger than the Angola plants, and has mostly 

 2-riowered partial inflorescences. 



4. C. rubra, Lop\ in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 49. Stem striate. Leaves 

 1 J by -^^ in., linear-lanceolate. Inflorescence | by J in., cylindric ; 



