Pandiaka.| CVI, AMARANTACEH (BAKER AND CLARKE). 69 
A. angustifolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 492; Schinz in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 113, in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 174; 
Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 234. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Makunde, Scott-Elliot, 5699! Gold 
Coast: Accra, Brown, 390! Togo, Warnecke, 182! Quorra (Niger) River, Vogel, 
98! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1724! French Congo: Upper Ubangi River, 
at Fort Sibut, Chevalier, 5677 ! 
Mile Land. Jur: Seriba Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2309 ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Goma, Hens, A, 360! Stanley Pool, 
Demeuse. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 6565! at 
Cadumba, on the River Quanza, Welwitsch, 6568! 6588p | 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lunda; Mukenge, Pogge, 226. 
Mozamb. Dist. Likoma Islands, in Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 15! 
6. P. Welwitschii, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw.i. 894. A hairy 
erect herb, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves opposite, subsessile, 1} in. long, obovate, 
rounded at the top. Spikes 14 by ?in., straw-coloured ; bracteoles about 
§ the length of the perianth, ovate, acuminate, subspinescent. Perianth 
4 in. long; segments elliptic-oblong, suddenly shortly acuminate, sub- 
spinescent, with many long white hairs on the back. Staminodes quad- 
rate, slightly toothed at the top. Ovary obtusely obovate at the top.— 
Achyranthes Welwitschii, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 187, in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 174. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; at Lopollo, Welwitsch, 6488! 6491! 
Welwitsch 6487 (not cited by Hiern) is a proliferous form of the same species, 
each flower being represented by a spike of bracts an inch long. A similar mon- 
strosity occurs in Achyranthes aspera. 
_ 4%. P. debilis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 894. The example 
is 30 in. long, weak, hairy, rooting at the lower nodes with long branches. 
Leaves opposite, hardly petioled, 1-14 in. long, obovate, rounded at the 
top. Spikes 1-1} by din., white; bracteoles about 3 the length of the 
perianth, elliptic, shortly acute, mucronate, hairy. Perianth }$-} in, 
long ; segments oblong, shortly acute, submucronate, with much straight 
white hair on the back. Staminodes quadrate, with long hairs at the top. 
Ovary obtusely obovoid at the top.—Psilotrichum debile, Baker in Kew 
Bulletin, 1897, 279. 
é i attaahc Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 
570! 
8. P. Schweinfurthii, C. B.C. Leaves sessile, broadly elliptic or 
oblanceolate, acute, mucronate, thinly hairy, yellow-green. Inflores- 
‘cence terminal ; bracts acuminate, hairy. Perianth-segments lanceolate, 
acute, thickened at the base, hairy. Staminodes long fimbriate. Ovary 
glabrous.— Achyranthes Schweinfurthii, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
Iv, 421, 
Wile Land. Dar Fertit; Schweinfurth, iii. 66! 
* Schinz doubts whether this is more than a geographical variety of P. Welwitschit ; 
it is of a different colour, and the perianth is slightly longer. The -only definite 
difference is the very long fimbrie to the staminodes. : 
