1 88 AMARANTACEAE 



B. Filaments united into a cup. Ovule pendulous from a Long funicle, 



a. Flowers several in the axils of leaves (exc. sour- species of Sericoeoma) t 



some sterile. 



I. Stami nodes o. 



1. Flowers fertile and sterile in each cluster. 



x Leaves alternate, narrow. Fruit villous. 



1 species, i of them S. A. E, C, No. 



S. remoiiflora. 4. Sericorema Lopr. 



Flor. Cap. 412. 

 x x Leaves opposite^ broad. 



o Fruit rlabrous. 



2 species in S. A. E, Na. 1 1. Pupalia Juss. 



Flor. Cap. 422. 

 00 Fruit hairy. 



1 species in S. W. A. M. Bainesii. 



5. Marcellia Bail!. 

 Flor. Cap. 413. 



2. Flowers all fertile. Leaves opposite or alternate. 



1 endemic species. (Bredasdorp.) 



L. Pfeilii. 6. Leucosphaera Gilg 



Flor. Cap. 413. 



II. Staminodes present 



(exc. in 1 species of Centema and 1 of Sericocoma). 



1. Fruit horned. Sterile flowers reduced to straight spines. 



Leaves opposite. 



4 species in S.A. 7. Cyphocarpa Lupr. 



Flor. Cap. 414. 



2. Fruit not horned. 



x Sterile flowers reduced to straight spines or absent. Leaves 

 alternate or opposite. 



2 species in S. A. C, W. 8. Seric6coma Fenzl 



Flor. Cap. 41 6. 



x x Sterile flowers reduced to straight spines, thickened and united 

 to the base of the fertile flower. Leaves opposite. 



2 species in S. A. T. I ). 9. Centema Hook. fll. 



Flor. Cap. 41 8. 



xxx Sterile flowers reduced to hooked spines. Leaves opposite. 

 (Plate 45, E.) 



6 species in S. A. E, C, Na, T. 



10. Cyathula Lour. 

 Flor. Cap. 41 9. 



