Psilotrickum.] cvi. amarantace^e (baker and clarke). 61 



13. P. edule, C. B. CI. Stem very stout, with much lon^ brown 

 hair ; tips of the branches leafy, densely silky. Leaves opposite ; blade 

 2i in. long, ovate, acuminate, hairy, base rounded ; petioles J-| in. 

 long. Panicles 4-8 in. long, very straggling, with long spreading 

 fine brown hairs. Bracteoles J-J the length of the perianth, villous. 

 Perianth -iy in. long, strongly ribbed, glabrous. 



Mozamb. Dlst. Pemba Island, Lyne^ 108 ! 129 ! 

 "A vegetable" {Lyne). 



Imperfectly known species. 



14. P. yillosiflorum, Lopr. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma. ix. 20. An 

 erect herb, 20 in. high ; branches opposite, glabrous. Leaves (pro- 

 bably scales only). Inflorescence of Psilostachys. Bract small ; brac- 

 teoles longer than the bract, densely clothed with white hair. Perianth- 

 segments ovate, acute, densely hairy. Filaments broad, subtriangular ; 

 anthers very small. Ovary subglobose; style fih form ; stigma small, 

 capitate. — Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 59, in Malpighia, xiv. 452. 



irile Xiand. Somaliland : between Robe Mountain and Daua River, Riva 1455 . 



15. P. angustifolium, Gilg in Xotizhl. Konigl, Bot. Gart. Berl. 

 i. 328. An annual, very glabrous herb, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves opposite, 

 sessile, 1-2 J by \-^ in. Panicles elongate, 12-30-flowered. Flowers 

 \ in. long ; perianth glabrous. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Usinja district, Stuhlmann^ 3470. 

 This species, from tbe description, appears close to P. Kirkii ; but the leaves are 

 linear-lanceolate or linear. 



16. Psilostachys filipes, BaUl.in Bull, Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 622 

 in obs. 



Mozamb. Dlst. Zanzibar, Boivin. 



Said to approach Bigera botli in its habit and other characters. 



17. Psilostachys nervulosum, Baill. in Bidl. Soc, Limu Paris, 

 i. 622 in obs. 



Xrile l^and. British East Africa: Mombasa, J5oiui». 



Neither of these species of Baillon has been seen; they possibly are near 

 P. Kirkii or P. axiUare, above ; but they may belong to some other genus, so far as 

 the descriptions go. 



15. CHIONOTHRIX, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. 33. 



Flowers perfect, solitary, each supported by 1 bract and 2 bracteoles. 

 Perianth \ in. long ; segments oblong, muticous, densely covered with 

 long white hairs. Filaments 5, linear, at the base lanceolate, united 



