32 CVI, AMARANTACEH (BAKER AND CLARKE). [Amaranthus. 
ef. Lopr. in Engl]. Jahrb. xxx. 34, 35. A. alopecurus and A. sanguineus, 
A. Braun & Bouché in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1872, Append. 1-2. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Sherboro, Scott-Elliot, 5761! Scarcies, Scott- 
Elliot, 4653! Quorra (Niger) River, Vogel, 129! 
Wile Land. Kordofan, Pfund, 258! Galabat: Matamma, Schweinfurth, 619, 
620! Abyssinia: near Adowa, Schimper, 359! 1077! 1513! 1535! 1537! Amba 
Sea, 6500 ft., Schimper, 276! and without precise locality, Quartin-Dillon & 
Petit, 98 (185)! Pearce! Madi, Speke §& Grant, 449! Uganda: Kampala, 
Scott-Elliot, 7301! British East Africa: Ribe, Wakefield ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Embowa, Burton! Stanley Pool, 900 ft., 
Hens, B, 99! Kingila, Dupuis! Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6513B! 
Cazengo, Welwitsch, 6513! Loanda, Welwitsch, 6512! German South-west Africa: 
Amboland ; Olukonda, Schinz, 2, Rautanen, 138. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe, Speke & Grant, 449! and 
without precise locality, Busse, 182! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, 
Forbes! Zambesi, Stewart! Nyasaland; North Nyasa, Scott! Nyika Plateau, 
MecClounie, 159! Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! near Muata 
Manja stream, 4000 ft., Kirk! Manganja Hills, Meller! Likoma Islands, 
Johnson, 31! 
Cultivated throughout warm Africa asa grain ; as is A. paniculatus throughout. 
India ; the two are separable, as the red wheat of Essex is separable from the white 
wheat of Wilts. In accordance with the canon of Darwin, the nut, being the part 
economically used, is the part of the plant that varies; see the excellent account by 
Hook. f. (Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 719). 
2. A. tricolor, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 989, ed. 2, 1403. An erect 
annual, 1-5 ft. high. Leaf-blade spathulate-ovate, acuminate, often 4 in. 
long; petioles 1-24 in. long. Spikes numerous, the terminal one long- 
cylindric, often with several penultimate forming a panicle; nearly 
always axillary spikes, even in the lower axils, areadded. Perianth +5 
in. long; segments 3, lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate; bracts long- 
awned, equalling or overtopping the perianth. Capsule membranous, 
ultimately circumscissile; style-branches usually 3.—Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 887. A. melancholicus, Linn, Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 989, 
ed. 2, 1403; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 163. 4. 
gangeticus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1268, Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1403; 
Moquin in DC. Prodr, xiii. ii. 261; Hook, Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 719; 
Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss, iv. Append. ii. 163. A. tristis, Garcke in 
Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 504; Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 989 2 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Ginda, 3000 ft., Sehweinfurth & Riva, 2180! Massowa, 
Schweinfurth, 231; Geleb, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth, 1148. Galabat: Matamma, 
Schweinfurth, 615, 617! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, 0-1000 ft., Welwitsch, 6516! 
Mozamb. Dist. Mozambique, Forbes! 
In India, cultivated and a weed. 
Boissier (F7. Orient. iv. 990) says that he found, in his specimens of 4. 
gangeticus from India, the perianth-segments always 5. From this it would appear 
that his specimens were some form of A. caudatus. 
3. A. spinosus, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1,991, ed. 2, 1407. Stem 1-3 
ft. high, suberect, Leaves long-petioled; blade 2-3 in. long, ovate, 
