Amavranthus.| CVI. AMARANTACER (BAKER AND CLARKE). 35 
subobtuse, with a long filiform recurved tail, about ;}, in. long exclu- 
sive of the tail. Bracts elongate-lanceolate, mucronate, as long as the 
perianth-segments (including their tails), Capsule thin, circumscissile. 
—AZarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 33; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 
Aethiop. 176; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 93, 
fig. A,in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 163, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 
172; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 206; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 887. A. Thunbergit, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 262. 
A, Blitum, var. 6 grecizans, Moquin, 1.c. 263, 
Nile Land. Eritrea, Schweinfurth, 39, 64, 528. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 6527! 6528! Huilla, 
Welwitsch, 6497 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi at Shupanga, 
Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Fort Hill, Whyte! Shire Valley, 
Scott ! 
This is a larger plant than A. Blitum, Linn., with larger leaves and flowers, and 
much longer tails to the perianth-segments. In Engl. & Prantl, PAanzenfam. iii. 
1A, 103, A, viridis, Linn., is referred to this species, to which I do not accede. 
8. A. Blitum, Zinn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 990, ed. ii. 1405. A glabrous, 
much-branched, small annual, decumbent or erect, rarely more than 
15in. high. Leaves (including the petiole) usually small, 4-14 (rarely 2) 
in. long, varying from narrow-oblong to obovate. Inflorescence copious, 
entirely axillary. Perianth hardly ;}, in. long, shorter than the fruit ; 
segments 3, elliptic or lanceolate. Fruit small, j1,-;'5 in. long, ovoid ; 
sometimes succulent, indehiscent ; sometimes thin, the seed escaping, 
vestris, Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 33 ? A. Dinteri, Schinz in 
Mém. Herb. Boiss. xx. 15e descript. Hu«olus polygamis, Hook. Niger 
Fl. 492. Albersia Blitum, Kunth, Fl. Berol. ii. 144; Boiss, Fl. Orient. 
vi. 991, 
Upper Guinea. French Sudan; Lom, Chevalier, 1022! Gold Coast: Accra, 
Vogel, 21! Southern Nigeria : Onitsa, Barter, 539! Northern Nigeria: Kuka, 
Vogel, 31! Nupe, Barter, 1716! 1727! 
Wile Land. Nubia: sea-coast, Lord! Bent! Suakin, Schweinfurth, 625! 
Ethiopia, Kotschy, 167 ! Abyssinia, Schimper, 489! Kordofan, Pfund, 147! 500! 
Kotschy, 48! Uganda, Bagshawe! British East Africa: Gilgil River, Scott- 
Elliot, 6664 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 6524! 6525! Icolo e Bengo; 
on the coast, Welwitsch, 6523! Golungo Alto: about Sange, Welwitsch,6521! 
Cazengo; base of Muxaula Mountain, Welwitsch, 6526! Pungo Andongo; Condo, 
Welwitsch, 6522! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam, Hildebrandt, 1035! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between Mpata and the Tanganyika Plateau, 
2000-3000 ft., Whyte! Namasi, Cameron, 23! Shire Highlands, Scott-Elliot, 
8634 ! 
