64 CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). [Achyranthes. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000-8000 ft., Mann, 
1307! 1977! Johnston, 94! 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy, 148! Abyssinia: Begemeder, Schimper, 
188! Amba Sea, Schimper, 249! Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 1144! Uganda, 
Wilson, 103! British East Africa: Kapte Plateau, 5000 ft., Thomson ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Burton! Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, — 
6547 ! 6552! 65528! 6573! 6574! 6579! 
Var. y pinguispicata, C. B. Cl. Axis of the inflorescence much thicker ; perianth 
larger than usual; leaves thicker.—A. aspera, Rolfe in Oates, Matabeleland, ed. ii. 
408 ; Warburg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 433. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: near the Kunene River, between Kiteve and 
Humbe, Baum, 961! 
Mozamb. Dist. Matabeleland, Oates! 
2. A. bidentata, Bl. Bijdr. 545, Leaves large; blade attaining 
9 by 84 in., drying a black green, Perianth shining, dried a black green, 
spreading in young fruit ; otherwise as A. aspera, Linn.—Moquin in DC. 
Prodr. xiii. ii, 312; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 730; Schinz in Engl. & 
Prantl, Planzenfam. iii. 1A, 112; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 894. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Johan-Albrechtshéhe, Staudt, 546! Fernando 
Po, Mann ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; in the forest on Queta Mountains, 
above Ndelle, Welwitsch, 6544! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Chiradzulu, 
4000 ft., Whyte! | 
The authors who admit this as a species diagnose it by the bifid small base to 
the bracteoles, whence the spine springs. I cannot sort the present plant by that 
character. 
3. A. aquatica, 2. Br. Prodr. 417. A stout, sparsely hairy herb, 
2-4 ft. high, rooting from the lower nodes; the roots elongate, often 
in water. Leaves opposite, petioled; the blade 3-4 in. long, ovate or 
Wile Land. Nubia, Kotschy, 198! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 32! Abyssinia: 
Begemeder ; in a swamp by the River Reb, 5700 ft., Schimper, 1376! White Nile 
Schweinfurth, 985! 
Also in India. 
4. A. lanuginosa, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi, 186, A thinly 
hairy herb; branches a foot long. Leaves opposite, petiolate; blade 
