Alternanthera.| CVI. AMARANTACEH (BAKER AND CLARKE). 73 
Leaves oblong or elliptic, narrowed towards the top. 
Perianth-segments 4 in. long, mucronate or very 
acute . . : ; c : : - I. A. nodiflora. 
Perianth-segments ~:-75 in. long, not very 
acute , : 5 z E E i . 2. A. achyranthoides. 
Leaves obovate, not narrowed towards the top . 3. A. echinata. 
1. A. nodiflora, R. Br. Prodr. 417. Rootstock often woody. 
Branches several, procumbent, pubescent or hairy towards the top, 
6-24 in. long. Leaves 4-24 in. long, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, 
narrowed at either end, hardly petioled, glabrate or obscurely hairy. 
Spikes solitary or clustered in the axils, }-} in. in diam., white, 
apparently glabrate. Perianth-segments } in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate, acute or mucronate, glabrate or with a few very thin 
Simple hairs scattered near the base and on the margins. Staminal 
tube a short broad cup; staminodes reduced to minute notched teeth. 
—Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 356; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 494; 
A. Rich, Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 219; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 
Aethiop. 175; Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 33; Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. 
Trop. Afr, 208; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 165. A. 
achyranthoides, partly, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 896. A. sessilis, 
var. nodiflora, Gilg in Warb. Kunene-Samb. Exped. 232. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: M’Bidjem, Thierry, 222! Roger! Senegambia, 
Heudelot, 130! Northern Nigeria: Kuka, Vogel, 61! : 
Mile Land. Eritrea, Schweinfurth, 226. Abyssinia: Mount Sholoda, 
Schimper, 15! near Adowa, Schimper, 1068 ! Galabat: around Matamma, Schwein- 
Jurth, 617! 621! Sennar, Kotschy, 287! Broun, 854! near Khartoum, Brom- 
field! Kordofan, Kotschy, 165! Pfund, 210! Darfur, Purdy, 11! Ethiopia, 
Kotschy, 287! White Nile region, Schweinfurth, 944! Broun, 1072! 
Lower Guinea Angola: Loanda, Gossweiler, 325! Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 
6504! 6505! near Chihinde, Baum, 52! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Sena, Kirk! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; between Kondowe and Karonga, Whyte! 
Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 384! Rhodesia: Mapani Forest, Holub! Batoka 
Plateau, Allen, 438! : 
Also in India, Malaya, and Australia, 
2. A. achyranthoides, Forsk. Fl. Zgypt.-Arab. lix.and28. Heads 
in fruit 4-1} in. in diam. Perianth-segments ;,—;}, in. long, not 
mucronate, often triangular at the top; otherwise as A. nodiflora.— 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 896. A. sessilis, R. Br. Prodr..417 ; 
Moguin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 357; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 495; 
Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 33; Garcke in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 
Bot. 503 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 996 ; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflan- 
zenfam. iii. 1A, 115, and 94, fig. 48, H,in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 174; 
Durand & Schinz, Etudes F]. Congo, i. 235 ; Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch. 
