Achyranthes.] CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). 65 
2-3 in. long, elliptic, narrowed at either end. Fruiting spikes up to 
12 by $ in., dense to the base, white; bracteoles about } as long as 
the perianth, similar to its segments. Perianth } in. long; segments 
copiously white-woolly on the back, with long entwined (not straight) 
very fine hairs, lanceolate, with a very short hard glabrous mucro. 
Staminodes oblong, copiously fimbriate at the top. Ovary obovoid, 
glabrous; style linear; stigma small. Fruiting perianths deflexed, 
pointing vertically downwards.—Schinz in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 174. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Unyoro, Stuhlmann, 335! 
: In the hairy, densely-placed white perianths and the uninterrupted linear spikes 
this species resembles Pandiaka ; but the leaves are distinctly petiolate. 
Imperfectly known species. 
5. A. pedicellata, Lopr. in Hngl. Jahrb. xxvii. 56. A very hairy 
undershrub, 16 in, high. ‘Leaves opposite, sessile, 1 by } in., obovate. 
Spikes 2-11 in. long; flowers manifestly pedicellate. Flowers } in. 
long; perianth-segments hairy on the back ; bracteoles } in. long, hairy. 
Staminodes short quadrate, fimbriate. Ovary obconoid ; style longish.— 
Lopr. in Malpighia, xiv. 433. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kimoani Plateau, in Bukoba district, 
6000 ft., Stuhlmann, 3390. 
The above copied from Lopriore, who says nothing of deflexed fruit-perianths. 
From the sessile leaves, and perianth-segments hairy on the back, the plant would 
appear to be a Pandiaka. 
6. A. rubrolutea, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 57. A hairy 
annual. Leaves opposite, sessile, 1 by 4 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute. 
Spikes terminal, 1 by 3 in., dense (smaller axillary spikes added), ovate, 
acuminate, red-yellow. Perianth-segments elliptic-lanceolate, long- 
attenuate, scabrid, hairy. Bract and bracteoles similar, elliptic- 
lanceolate. Staminodes short, broad, hairy. Ovary obovoid; style 
long ; stigma capitate.—Lopr. in Malpighia, xiv. 432. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lualaba River, Descamps. 
7. A. nodosa, Vahl ex Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl, 139, Stems 
flexuose or scandent, jointed, the joints thickened-nodose, Leaves 
Ovate-lanceolate, shaggy, somewhat scabrid. Heads terminal, in- 
volucrate. Branches nodose.—Moquin in DC, Prodr. xiii. ii. 317; 
Benth. in Hook, Niger Fl. 493. 
Upper Guinea. Dahomey: Whydah, Jsert. 
Bentham, l.c. , supposes this was a species of Pandiaka, 
8. A. viridis, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 55. A herb, branched 
from the base. Branches striate, angular, suberect, sparingly bristly 
hairy. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, adpressedly hairy on both 
Surfaces, base cuneate, tip obtuse. Inflorescence terminal, short, simply 
Spicate, the rhachis densely hairy ; bracts ovate, hyaline, bristle-pointed ; 
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