68 CVI. AMARANTACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). { Pandiaka, 
Upper Guinea. Togo, Warnecke, 470! Dahomey, Burton! Southern 
Nigeria: Abeokuta, Zrving! interior of Western Lagos, Rowland! Pandiaki 
Village, Ansell! Attah (Idda), Vogel! Stirling, Vogel, 138B! Abadan Awurabe, 
Foster, 320! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 944! 
2. P. ramulosa, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 894. Branches 
slender, numerous, pubescent. Leaves opposite, subsessile, 1 to 1} by 
3-4 in., oval-oblong, cuspidate, base cuneate. Spikes ovoid-globose, $ 
to by 4-3 in. Perianth 3-} in., segments lanceolate-oblong, hairy 
on the back, glabrate at the tip; bracteoles as long as the perianth, 
subulate, acuminate. Staminodes oblong, truncate-crenulate at the 
top. Ovary glabrous. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in rough places near Mumpulla, Welwitsch, 
6498. ; 
3. P. lanceolata, (. B. Cl. Branches 6-8-ribbed, obscurely 
tomentose between the ribs. Leaves opposite, 1-14 by }-} in., oblong, 
narrowed at the base, hardly petiolate, minutely and obscurely grey- 
(or white-) pubescent. Spikes ovoid-globose, $ by 4-3 in. Perianth 
2 in. long; segments lanceolate, acute, shortly hairy on the back, 
Staminodes quadrate, emarginate. Ovary glabrous.—Cyathula lanceo- 
lata, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 188, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. 
iii. 65, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland, Rautanen ; Herero- 
land, Hoepfner, 91. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa, Fischer, 256! 561. 
4, P. cylindrica, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 36. 
A hairy herb, much branched at the top. Leaves opposite, subsessile, 
1-1} by } in., oblong, attenuate at the base. Spikes 14 by } in., 
straw-coloured ; bracteoles usually exceeding the perianth, having a long 
white mucro adorned with some very long white hairs. Perianth } in. 
long; segments oblong-lanceolate, subacute, with much short white 
hair on the back. Staminodes quadrate, hairy, especially with long 
hairs at the top. Ovary truncate.—Achyranthes elegantissima, Schinz 
in Engl. Jahrb, xxi. 186. 
Wile Land. Bahr el Ghazal: between Limbo’s and Abu Shakka’s, Brown, 
58! Jur: Majob, Schweinfurth, 1542! 
5. P. Heudelotii, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 36. 
A long-branched hairy herb, 2 or 3 ft. high. Leaves opposite, sessile, 
2-3 by $-} in., linear or narrow-oblong. Spikes 1 by 2 in., green- 
white, ultimately straw-coloured; bracteoles about 3 the length of the 
perianth, elliptic, with a short lanceolate point. Perianth } in. long; 
segments oblong, long-linear at the top, with many hairs on the back, 
the linear point pale-brown, glabrate. Staminodes quadrate, glabrous, 
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