182 CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORA OF GAZALAND. 
AMARANTACE 2. 
The following common weeds do not require localisation, viz.: ZErva 
lanata, Juss., and Achyranthes aspera, Linn. 
CELOSIA TRIGYNA, Linn. Mant. 212. 
Chipete forest patch ; 3800 ft., Upper Buzi river at 3000 ft.; Madanda 
forests at about 400 ft.; in fl. April, May ; nn. 507, 1514, 1517. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Arabia. 
AMARANTHUS GRECIZANS, Linn, Sp. PL 990, 
Near Chirinda, 3800 ft. ; in fl. Мау; n. 403. 
Distrib. Eritrea to Angola and Zambesia. 
CYATHULA PROSTRATA, Blume, ВИЧ». 549, 
Chirinda Forest, 3700-4000 ft. ; in fl. April, May ; nn. 269 a, 340. 
Distrib. Liberia and Uganda to Angola and Congo Free State. 
PsILOTRICHUM CONCINNUM, Bak. in Kew Bull. 1897, 279. 
Madanda forests at about 400 ft, ; in fl. Dec. ; n. 1520. 
Distrib. Nyasaland, 
P. GRACILENTUM, C. B. Clarke т Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. Sect. Т, 59. 
Umvumvumvu River, 400 ft.; Northern Melsetter, 5000-6000 ft. ; in fl. 
April, Oct. ; nn. 777, 0040. 
Distrib. Angola to Zambesia. 
ACHYRANTHES BIDENTATA, Blume, Bijdr. 545. 
Chirinda Forest, 3700-4000 ft. ; in fl. June; n. 1510. 
Distrib. Cameroons to Angola and Nyasaland. 
CHENOPODIACEA. 
4 . . . . .. 
Chenopodium album, Linn., is а cosmopolitan weed, and C. ambrosioides, 
Linn., a weed of the tropics and the warm temperate zones, 
CHENOPODIUM SCHRADERIANUM, Reem. § Schult. Syst. Veg. vi. 260. 
Melsetter, 6000 ft. ; in fl. April ; n. 1507. 
Distrib. Tropical and South Africa and America. 
POLYGONACEJE. 
POLYGONUM SERRULATUM, Lag. Gen. у Sp. Pl. 14. 
Inyamadzi Valley, 2500 ft.; Lower Umswirizwi River, 1000 ft.; in fl. 
Sept., Nov. ; nn. 1513, 1515. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa. 
