40 CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). | Hrva. 
165, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C.173; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 207 ; 
Durand & De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 1897, 
85; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 234. Achyranthes lanata, 
Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 204, ed. ii. 296. A. villosa, Forsk. Fl. Atgypt.- 
Arab. 48. TIllecebrum lanatum, Linn. Mant. 344; Schumach. Beskr. 
Guin. Pl. 144. Ouret lanata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 893 
partly. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Talla, Scott-Elliot, 4865! Gold Coast: 
Assin Yan Kumassi, Cummins, 195! Krobo Plains, Johnson, 518! Togo: near 
Lome, Warnecke, 14! Lagos, Dawodu, 38! Millen, 59, 165! Cameroons: 
Efulen, Bates, 433 ! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 659! Coast-land, 
Bent! ‘Erkowit, Broun! Eritrea: various localities, Schweinfurth, 237, 739, 
1114, 1440. Abyssinia: various localities, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 96! Schimper, 
249! 490! 1030! 2110! Welby! Somaliland: various localities, James & 
Thrupp ! Mrs. Lort Phillips ! Hildebrandt,867! Donaldson Smith ! Niamniam : 
at the Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, 2966! Uganda, Speke & Grant! Scott- 
Elliot, 7289! British East Africa: Machakos, Scott-Elliot, 6754! Kapte Plateau, 
Thomson ! near Mombasa and region around it, Wakefield! Whyte! Sabaki Valley, 
Gregory! Witu, Teede, 2! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Bingula, Dupuis; near the mouth, Smith, 
36,72! Angola: Golungo Alto; near the Cuango River, Welwitsch, 6575 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State; Mtowa, Descamps ; Basoko, Demeuse, 
Mozamb. Dist. Pemba Island, Bojer! Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1034! 
German East Africa: Usambara; Tanga, Heinsen, 86! Usaramo; Dar-es-Salaam, 
Kirk, 127! Kbhutu; Zungomero, Speke & Grant! Portuguese East Africa: 
Mozambique, Forbes. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Masuku Plateau, 6500—- 
7000 ft., Whyte! Nyika Plateau, MeClounie, 89! 139! 176! Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan ! Adamson, 84! Zambesi; Stewart ! 
Throughout Africa, and warm parts of Asia to the Philippines. 
Var. 8 oblongata, Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop, 174. Leaves thick, 
densely woolly beneath even in age, usually very close together. Inflorescence a 
dense narrow panicle, often 1 foot by 1 in., continuous, leafless at top.—Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 207. 
Wile Land. Nubia: Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 661! Eritrea: Habab, 
5000 ft., Hildebrandt, 397! Abyssinia, Salt! Schimper, 532, 658! Somaliland: 
Golis Range, Brockman! British East Africa: Lake Elmeteita, Gregory ! Lake 
Naivasha, Scott-Elliot, 6529! Kidung Ndogo, Scott-Elliot, 6659 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Umba Valley, Smith! Kilimanjaro, 
5000 ft., Volkens, 392! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba and vicinity, 
2500-3500 ft., Whyte! 
5. #E. brachiata, Mart. in Nova Acta Nat. Cur. xiii. (1826), 
291. Stem 12-18 in. long, much branched from the base; lower 
branches often opposite or nearly so. Leaves alternate, nearly glabrate ; 
blade 4-14 in. long, ovate-elliptic or obovate. Spikes axillary, sessile, 
often many clustered, } by ;1, in. (much narrower than in 4. lanata), 
dense, white. Flowers hardly 4, in. long, globose; perianth-segments 
not acute, 5 or more, often 4-3. Stamens 2-1, the staminal tube usually 
very imperfect and no staminodes to be found.—Mogquin in DC. Prodr. 
xiii. ii. 304; Hook. Niger F].492. Achyranthes brachiata, Linn. Mant. 50. 
