890 CI. AMAHANTHACE^. [Centemo, 



and May 1860. Coll. Oaep. 876. A perennial?, erect, branched 

 herb, 2 ft. high ; leaves narrow ; spikes blood-red purple. At Mum- 

 puUa ; fl. and fr. June 1860. Coll. Caep. 106. 



3. C. graoilenta Hiern, sp. n. 



An annual, erect, branched herb, about 2 to 3 ft. high or more, 

 glabrous in most parts; stem purplish at the base, from the 

 middle to the apex herbaceous-green and angular-furrowed ; 

 branches slender ; nodes marked with a transverse somewhat 

 hairy line between the leaves ; leaves opposite with fasciculate 

 mostly smaller leaves in their axils, narrowly spathulate-linear, 

 pointed at the apex, attenuate to the sessile base, entire, \^ to 2 

 in. long by -^ to -Jj- in. broad ; lateral margins more or less 

 reyolute] midrib broad; flowers spicate, yellow-greenish, -jS^- in. 

 long ; bracts 3, of which two adhere to the perianth even in the 

 dry state and the third often remains on the axis of the spike, all 

 ovate thin and reaching about halfway up the flower, .the third 

 larger than the others and somewhat woolly; spikes terminal, 

 slender, dense, 2 to 2 J in. long ; perianth hard, the segmfents 5, 

 oval-oblong, longitudinally nerved, xj- in. long, obtuse, paleaceous, 

 united and rather thickly cartilaginous at the base, glabrous or 

 nearly so ; filaments 5, subulate, weak, united below into a shallow 

 membranous cup, glabrous ; staminodes ; anthers small ; an- 

 droepium about equalling the perianth ; pistil Jj- in. long, nearly 

 but not quite glabrous ; ovary ovoid, unilocular, -^-^^ in. long ; ovule 

 solitary ; style short, unbranched ; fruit -^g in. long, nearly 

 glabrous, ovoid-conical ; seed solitary, comparatively large ; embryo 

 large, annular. 



HuiLLA. — In sandy wooded places on the Humpata plateau ; fl. and 

 fr. 21 March 1860. TSTo. 6511. 



7. DESMOCH.a:TADC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. p. 101 {\^U),pwrtli/. 



Gyathula Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. (xi.) p. 548 (1825); 

 Senth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 31 ; non Lour. (1790). PupaUa 

 Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. PI. Brasil. ii. p. 60. tt. 156, 158 (1826) ; 

 non Juss. (1803). 



The type of Loureiro's plant is in the National Herbarium ; it 

 belongs to AchyrantMs ; the species is A. aspera L. 



1. D. prostrata DC., I.e., p. 102. 



Achyramthes prostrata L. Sp. PI. edit. 2, p. 296 (1762). D. 

 micramitha DC, I.e. Gyathula prostrata Blume, I.e., p. 549 ; Moq. 

 in DO. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 326 (1849), excl. syn. Loureir. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A very slender, ascending herblet, with greenish 

 flowers and fruits. In Mata de Quisuculo between Sobato Bango and 

 Quilombo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. April 1856. No. 6550. In shady 

 forests by streams at Quilombo ; fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 6579. 



Prince's Island.— In the coast region : fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. 

 No. 6540. 



2. D. unciuulata. 



Achyranthes uncinulata Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Goett. 1833, p. 1. 

 Cyathula globulifera Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii, 2, p. 329 (1849), 



