38 CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). | £rva. 
504; T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 646; Oliver in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xxix. 141; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 207; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
iv. 992; Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 33; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 109, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 165, in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 174, 
not of Juss. Jresine persica, Burm. FI. Ind. 212, t. 65, fig. 1. Achyranthes 
incana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 671. A. tomentosa, Tuckey, Congo Voy. 
249. Uretia persica, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. 544, partly. Ouret 
persica, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 893. 
Upper Guinea, Gambia, Park! French Sudan: El Araladji, Chevalier, 
1174! Timbuctu, Chevalier, 1286! Senegal, Roger! Schotte! Déllinger, 11! 
Cape Verde, Brunner, 2! Northern Nigeria: Bornu; Kuka, Vogel, 15! Maigu- 
meri, Elliott, 124! 
Nile Land. Ethiopia, Kotschy, 314! Nubia: Mesne & Derr, Fhrenberg! 
sea-coast, Bent ! Sagudi, Schweinfurth, 601! Otao, Johnston ! Dongola, Bromfield ! 
Eritrea: Shoho, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 225! Habab, Hildebrandt, 398! Ghedem 
Mountain, Schweinfurth & Riva, 90! near Massowa, Schweinfurth, 17,79; Ginda, 
Schweinfurth, 252; Keren, Schweinfurth, 993; Geleb, Schweinfurth, 1411. Abys- 
sinia: Tacazze River Valley, Schimper, 1773! and without precise locality, Salt! 
Schimper, 207! 480! Somaliland: coast at Kismayo, Kirk! Berbera, Perry! 
Haud, Thomson, 86! Milmil, Donaldson Smith! and without precise locality, Mrs. 
Lort Phillips! Sudan: near Khartoum, Petherick ! Nile, south of Khartoum, 
Speke & Grant ! Sennar, Schweinfurth, 652! Kordofan, Kotschy,40! Pfund, 51! 
Darfur, Purdy, 7! British East Africa: Ukambani, Gregory, 115! Taita Moun- 
tains, Hildebrandt, 2479! Mombasa to Takaunga, Whyte ! Witu, Thomas, 45! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam, Hildebrandt, 1238! 
Rufidji, 800 ft., Goetze, 52! Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi, Stewart / 
between Lupata and Tete, Kirk ! Ngamiland, Kwebe, Zugard, 180 ! 
Extending into North Africa and through the Orient to the North and West of 
India. 
Var. 8 Bovei,C.B.Cl. A smaller, burat-up form ; leaves about 1 in. long, often 
less, oblong or obovate, sometimes recurved ; flowers smaller, spikes much more slender 
and often much interrupted. 4. javanica, var. Bovei, Webb in Hook. Niger Fl. 
North Central. Tebu: Agadem, Vogel! 
Wile Land. Desert near Debba, Brown! Nubia: between Suakin and Berber, 
Schweinfurth, 653, 654, 681! Dalac Islands; Sarat, Steudner, 656! Kordofan, 
Kotschy, 16! 
Forskal gives the full name of this species on page exxii., and an excellent 
description on page 170. Jussieu (in dan, Mus. Par. ii, 1803, 131) mentions 
‘* javanicum ”’ as a species he would transfer to #rva ; and, by tracing back, it is 
found that he meant Jresine javanica, Burm. (Fl. Ind. t. 65, fig. 2). It is evi- 
dent, from Burmann’s figures, that 2. tomentosa, Forsk., is Iresine persica, Burm., 
which does not extend so far east as the Malay Peninsula and Java. If, therefore, 
either of Burmann’s names is to be taken, it will be persica (as has been done by 
O. Kantze and Hiern) ; but 2. tomentosa, Forsk., is not only the older name, but 
expresses the one characteristic on which the species stands. 
2. #&. Ruspolii, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb, xxvii. 57. Stem } in. in 
diam., woody. Branches from the base numerous, repeatedly divided, 
rigid, with tawny tomentum. Leaves } in. long, oblong and obovate, 
tawny tomentose, many reflexed, Spikes small, narrow, interrupted, as 
