72 cvi. AMARANTACEiE (baker AND claeke). [Telaoithera . 



Xower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; coast, Fechuel ; 

 Namib, near Walfisch Bay, 500 ft., Marloth, 1178. 



21. TELANTHERA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 38. 



Flowers perfect, solitary, each (without sterile flowers or rudi- 

 mentary bracts) supported by 2 bracteoles. Perianth rigid ; segments 

 lanceolate-triangular, muticous, glabrate. Filaments 5, linear to the 

 base ; staminodes interjected, long; anthers 1-celled. Ovary obovoid ; 

 ovule 1, on a basal f unicle ; style short; stigma capitate. Fruit 

 obovoid, hardly at all flattened ; seed lenticular ; embryo curled. — 

 Leaves opposite. Spikes axillary, ovoid. Perianth in fruit adpressed 

 erect. 



Species the 1 following and 40 endemic in America. 



1. T. maritima, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 364. A nearly 

 glabrous decumbent branched herb. Leaves 2-3 by J-1 in., elliptic, 

 narrowed at either end, scarcely petioled. Spikes J- J in. long, rigid. 

 Perianth-segments \ in. long, brown, strongly striate, with scarious 

 margins. Staminodes, including their long fimbriations, as long as the 

 stamens. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 495. Bucfwlzia maritima, Mart. 

 Nov. Gen. ii. 50, t. 147. Alternanthera maritimaj St. Hil, Voy. 

 Bresil, ii. 437; Schinz in Engl. <fe Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 115; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 895. 



Vpper Guinea, a sea-coast plant. Senegal, Dollinger, 51 ! Chevalier, 

 4449 ! Liberia : BassH, Vogel, 4 1 Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Smeathmann ! Don ! 

 Gold CoRSt, Burton ! Southern Nigeria : Lagos, Maloney ! Nun River, Vogel, 201 

 Mann, 472 ! Cameroons: Batanga, Bates, 37 ! 



XiOwer Crulnea. Princes Island, Barter, 1949 ! St. Thomas Island, Mattray ! 



Lower Congo: shore at the mouth, iSmiY/i .' Banana, ^ow^giVo .' Angola: Ambriz, 

 Welmtsch, 6553 ! shores of Loando and Barra do Dande, Welwitsch, 6535 ! 6559 ! 



Also on the sea-coast of South America. 



22. ALTERNANTHERA, Forsk. ; Benth. et Hook, 

 f. Gen. PI. iii. 38. 



Flowers perfect, solitary, each (without sterile flowers or rudi- 

 mentary bracts) supported by 2 bracteoles. Perianth thin ; segments 

 elliptic, lanceolate or mucronate, nearly glabrate or minutely hairy. 

 Filaments linear to the base ; staminodes interjected, often very small ; 

 anthers 1-celled. Ovary obovoid, truncate ; ovule 1, on a basal funicle ; 

 style very short, subsetaceous . Utricle much flattened, broadly 

 obovoid, with a notch at the top in which remains the small style, 

 winged with thin margins ; seed lenticular ; embryo curled. — Leaves 

 opposite. Spikes small, globose or ovoid, axillary. Perianths in fruit 

 stellate. 



Species 25> in the warm parts of both hemispheres. 



