34 CVI, AMARANTACEH (BAKER AND CLARKE). [| Amaranthus. 
not membranous, with no trace of a transverse line-—Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. iv. 720; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 888; Durand & De 
Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 85 ; Durand & Schinz, 
Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 233 (excl. syn. Huwolus viridis, Moquin). Huxolus 
caudatus, Hook, Niger Fl). 492 in obs.; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. 
ii. 274, partly. Chenopodium caudatum, Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. t. 344? 
Albersia caudata, Boiss. Fl]. Orient. iv. 992; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss, 
iv. Append, ii. 164. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 295! 363. Northern 
Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1055 ! 
Wile Land. Eritrea, Schweinfurth, 191, 231, 1433. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Burton! Tondoa, Buettner, 322. Angola 
Loanda, Welwitsch, 6512, 6517! Gossweiler, 277! Barra do Bengo, Welwitsch, 
6518! Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6519! Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 6520! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lunfundi ? Demeuse. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi, between Tete and 
Kaorabassa Rapids, Kirk / 
Widely distributed in warm countries—a weed. 
This species is easily recognised by the small pedicellate flowers in panicled long 
spikes ; also by the absolutely indehiscent herbaceous fraits.—Jacquin (Ic. Pl. Rar. 
t. 344) shows the perianth-segments 5, equal; which, so far as known, does not 
occur in this species. Either, therefore, the synonymy of Moquin (and others): 
founded on it falls to the ground, or an error must be assumed in the plate. 
6. A. oleraceus, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 1403. Inflorescence 
copiously axillary, the terminal running into a dense cylindric leafless. 
mass; otherwise as A. polygamus, Linn.—Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. 
exxi. A. Blitum, var. oleracea, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 721. 
Eucolus viridis, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 273; ? Hook. Niger Fl. 
492. Albersia oleracea, Kunth, Fl. Berol. ii. 144; Boiss. Fl. Orient.. 
iv, 991. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Farmar, 3! 24! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: near Adowa, Schimper, 1069! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Machemga, Johnson, 269! British 
Central Africa : Nyasaland; near Mbashe Lagoon, Scott! near Zomba, Whyte / 
In all warm countries—a weed. 
Var. B maxima, C. B. Cl. Leaf-blade 43 by 24 in.; terminal inflorescence 4 by 
1-1} in., dense ; fruits thin, larger than in A, oleraceus, the seeds plentifully 
escaping. 
Wile Land. Uganda: Ruwenzori, “in banana patches,” Scott-Elliot, 7941! 
I suppose this to be a garden (or cultivated ?) form of 4. oleraceus, Linn. 
7. A. grecizans, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed, i. 990, ed. ii, 1405. Decum- 
bent or spreading ; branches 1-2 ft. long. Leaves long-petioled ; blade 
1-2 in. long, elliptic, narrowed at either end. Spikes globose, copious, 
axillary, the uppermost running sometimes into a single terminal oblong 
inflorescence 1-14 in. long. Perianth-segments 3 (2 inner rather 
narrower added in the well-developed bisexual flowers), broadly elliptic, 
