48 CVI, AMARANTACE& (BAKER AND CLARKE). [ Pupalia. 
Aavescens, DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 102. Pupal lappacea, Hiern. in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 891. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot, 486! Roger, 78! Gambia, Zngram! 
Gold Coast: Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 26! Ashanti; Dunquah, Cummins, 19! 
Lagos: Abbeokuta, Irving! Southern Nigeria: Aboh, Barter, 474! Oloke Meji, 
Foster, 300! Northern Nigeria: Kuka, Vogel, 61! 
North Central. Bagirmi: Tjecna, Chevalier, 9558! 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast-land, Bent! Hor Tamanib, Lord! Wady O- 
Mareg, Schweinfurth, 400! Eritrea: various localities, Schweinfurth § Riva, 317! 
Schweinfurth, 189, 231, 317, 457, 932. Hildebrandt, 653! Abyssinia: various 
localities, Schimper, 116! 1221! British Somaliland, Miss Edith Cole! Mrs. 
Lort Phillips! Brockman! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 79! 295! Kordofan, Pfund, 41! 
388! Kotschy, 96! Jur: Dimo, Schweinfurth, 4291! Bongo: Matuoli, Schwein- 
furth, 2025! Uganda: east side of Lake Albert Edward, Scott-Elliot, 8060! 
Chulima, Bagshawe, 246! British East Africa: Kikuyu, Gregory ! between Mom- 
basa and Lamu, Whyte ! 
Lower Guinea. Annabon Island, Burton! Lower Congo: Bingila, Duputs. 
Loango, Soyaux, 216! Angola: various localities, Welwitsch, 6500! 6529! 65298 ! 
6552! German South-west Africa: Amboland, Schinz, 4, Rautanen, 139; 
Rehoboth, Schinz, 5, Fleck, 274, 148; Dammaraland, Hen, 75! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1178! German East Africa: Muoa, 
Holst, 3128! Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; between Lupata and Tete, 
Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; various localities, Buchanan, 1277! 
Whyte ! McClounie, 28! Johnson, 22! Ngamiland: Kwebe, Lugard, 175! 
Also common in Madagascar and South-east Asia. 
2. P. atropurpurea, Voquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii, 331. More 
slender, more rambling than P. lappacea ; leaves smaller, more acumi- 
nated at either end ; inflorescences weaker, often 1-2 in. long ; perianth 
often less copiously woolly —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 218 ; Hook. 
Niger Fl. 494; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 723; Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. 
Pfund, 33; Schinzin Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 108, and 93, 
fig. 46, F, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C.173. Achyranthes lappacea, Linn. Sp. 
Pl. ed. ii. 295, in small part. A. atropurpurea, Lam. Encyel. i. 546. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Lake Baringo, Johnston ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Pember Island, Bojer! German East Africa: mouth of 
Rovuma River, Meller! Umba River, Kaessner, 110! Portuguese East Africa: 
Lower Zambesi, between Lupata and Tete, Kirk! Lower valley of the River 
Shire, Meller! 
Also in British India. 
This species appears to me not distinctly separable from P. lappacea, Juss. 
Imperfectly known species. 
3. P. Robecchii, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 55. Stem woody, 
12-15 in. high, with short internodes. Leaves opposite, 1 in. long, 
ovate, tomentose, the tomentum peeling off. Inflorescence spicate, at 
the base loose, above dense, of opposite clusters. Sterile bracts ending 
in hooks, Filaments subulate, somewhat broader at the base, Ovary 
