Amaranthus.| CVI. AMARANTACEX (BAKER AND CLARKE). 33 
narrowed upwards, shortly cuneate at the base; two stipulary spines, 
4 in. long, in the axils of some of the lower petioles. Spikes cylindric, 
about 4 in. broad, the upper long, often closely panicled, the terminal 
often 3-4 in. long, sometimes much interrupted at the base; in the 
lower axils globose spikes are often added. Bracts shortly ovate, 
cuspidate, hardly overtopping the flowers. Perianth hardly ;', in. long ; 
segments 5, oblong, often mucronate. Style often 2-fid. Capsule 
membranous, circumscissile.—Hook. Niger Fl. 492; Moquin in DC. 
Prodr. xiii. ii, 260; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 718; Schinz in Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172; Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 287 ; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 887. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 735! Gambia: Bathurst, Brunner, 
159! Sierra Leone: Sherboro, Scott-Elliot, 5834! Freetown, Welwitsch, 6514 ! 
Vogel, 13! Liberia: near Kakatown, Whyte! Gold Coast: Aburi, Brown, 411! 
Ashanti, Cummins, 32! Lagos, Maloney! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 292! 
Fernando Po; Vogel! Mann, 32! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambriz, Welwitsch, 6515! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1037! Nyasaland: Ntondwe 
Cameron, 127! 
Also in India. 
4. A. patulus, Bertol. Comm. Neap. 19, t. 2. Stem 1-3 ft. long, 
less erect and more branched than in A. caudatus. Leaves 2-34 in. 
long, ovate, narrowed upwards; no spines in the axils. Spikes cylindric, 
about } in. broad, the upper long, often closely panicled, the terminal 
often 38-4 in. long; in the lower axils globose spikes are often added. 
Bracts ovate, cuspidate, about as long as the perianth, or frequently 
shorter than it. Segments of the perianth 5, broadly oblong, obtuse, 
scarcely mucronate. Capsule thin (the seed escaping), more or less 
distinctly cireumscissile-—Webb & Berth. [es Canaires, Phyt. iii. 286; 
Boiss. F]. Orient. iv. 989. 
Nile Land. British East Africa; Tana River, Gregory ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1036! German East Africa: Usam- 
bara; Tanga, Holst, 2068! Amboni, Holst, 2771! and without precise locality, 
Busse, 183! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Scot¢! British Central Africa: 
North Nyasa, Whyte ! 
A native of the Southern United States, now spread in the Mediterranean 
region, with the Cape Verde Isles and the Canaries. 
5. A viridis, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1405. Suberect, 1-3 ft. high. 
Leaves long-petioled; blade 1-3 in. long, ovate or elliptic. Spikes 
linear, the terminal 2-4 in. long, panicled towards the ends of the 
branches, much looser than in the allied species, the pedicels visible. 
Perianth 51, in. long; segments 3, elliptic, acute, Fruit as long as the 
perianth, indehiscent, wrinkled, shrinking on the nut, herbaceous, 
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