20 CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). [Celosia. 
Mogquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 240; A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. ii. 211; 
T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 646; Garcke in Peters, Reise 
Mossamb. Bot. 504; Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 33; Oliver in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxix. 140, excl. syn.; Aschers. in Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 179 (excl. Ehrenberg’s Togodele plant); Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 205; Schinz in Engl.& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iii. LA, 99, in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 180, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. 
ii. 162, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 884; E. G. Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. sér. 2, Bot. iv. 39; Dur. & 
Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 232 ; Dur. & De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. 
Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 85. C. caudata, Vahl, Symb. i. 21. C. melanocarpos, 
Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 318. C. triloba, Meisn. in Hook. London Journ. 
ii. (1843), 448 (548). C. chenopodiifolia and C. semperflorens, Baker 
in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 276, 277 (both which I make out to be trigynous). 
C. adoensis, Hochst. & Steud. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 211. 
Achyranthes decumbens and A. paniculata, Forsk. Fl, A¢gypt.-Arab. 
47,48. Lestibudesia trigyna, R. Br. Prodr. 414. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger! Senegambia, Heudelot, 120! Cape Verde, 
Brunner, 139! Sierra Leone, Smeathmann / Afzelius! Samu, Scott-Elliot, 4331! 
French Guinea: Dantilia, Scott-Hiliot, 5267! Gold Coast: Aburi, Brown, 311! 
Johnson, 1096! Krobo, Johnson, 554! Accra, Don! Ansell ! Togo, Warnecke, 27! 
Northern Nigeria: Stirling Hill, Vogel, 182! Ansell! Nupe, Baikie! Borgu, 
Barter, 1341! Fernando Po, Barter ! Vogel, 180! Cameroons : Yaunde, 2500 ft., 
Zenker § Staudt, 345! and without precise locality, Preuss, 1291! 
Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy, 79! 369! Eritrea, Schweinfurth, 254, 331, 
1650, 1876, 2035, 2182. Galabat : Matamma, Schweinfurth, 665! Abyssinia: 
Adowa, Schimper, 49! Tigre, Schimper, 177! and without precise locality, Quartin- 
Dilion & Petit, 221! Togodele, Ehrenberg ! Kordofan, Kotschy, 75! 285! Pfund, 
899! Upper Sennar: Fazokl, Kotschy, 548! White Nile, Murie! Schweinfurth, 
1050! Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 782! Jur, Schweinfurth, 2387! Niamniam, 
Schweinfurth, 2986! Uganda: Entebbe, 3900 ft., Brown, 35! Busogo, in gardens, 
Whyte, B, 5! and without precise locality, Cunningham! Wilson, 463! Speke & 
Grant! British East Africa; Kavirondo, Scott-Elliot, 7019! Ribe, Wakefield ! 
Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
Lower Guinea. Annabon Island, Burton ! Loango, Soyaur, 194! Lower 
Congo: Bingila, Dupuis ; and without precise locality, Smith ! Burton! Angola: 
Dembe, Monteiro! Huilla, Welwitsch, 6485! Loanda, Welwitsch, 6537! Goss- 
weiler, 172! 392! 6560; Ambriz, Welwitsch, 6557! Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 
6562! Ambaca, Welwitsch, 6571! Chella Mountains, Johnston / 
South Central. Congo Free State: Congo Forest, Doggett! Mtowa 
Descamps. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1033! German East Africa: 
Karagwe ; Kagera River, 5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8139! Nyasaland: Nyika Plateau, 
McClounie, 105! 156! Namasi, Cameron, 31! Masuku Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., 
Whyte! Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte! Mlanji, Whyte, 166! Blantyre, Last / 
Buchanan, 52! Manganja Hills, Meller! Lower Zambesi: Tete, Kirk! Boruma, 
Menyharth, 823! Matabeleland, Holud ! 
Also in Madagascar and Arabia. 
There may be two species here: in C. semperflorens, J. G. Baker (nearly = 
C. adoensis, Hochst. et Steud.), the long inflorescences are reduced nearly or quite 
