74 CVI. AMARANTACEZ (BAKER AND CLARKE). [Alternanthera, 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger, 15! Sierra Leone: near Musaia (Mussia) 
Scott-Elliot, 5103! Samu Country, Scott-Elliot, 4204! Gold Coast: Aburi,. 
Brown, 316! Ashanti, Bowdich ! Southern Nigeria: Sawewe, Dawodu, 20! banks 
of the Niger, Barter, 126! 872! Cameroons: Efulen, Bates, 191! 884! Yaunde, 
2700 ft., Zenker §& Staudt, 298! Fernando Po, Vogel, 204! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder, Schimper, 1341! White Nile, Petherick ! 
Sagadi, Schweinfurth, 521! Sennar, Kotschy, 469! Jur; by the Wau River, 
Schweinfurth, 1647! British East Africa: Lake Losuguta, Gregory ! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Don! Princes Island, Welwitsch, 
6539! 6542! Loango, Soyaur, 129! Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Hens, B, 16! 
near the mouth of the Congo, Smith, 31! 37! Angola, banks of rivers: Barra do 
Dande, Welwitsch, 6533! Ivolo e Bengo, Welwitsch, 6531, 6532! Golungo Alto, 
Welwitsch, 6549, 6561! Libongo, Welwitsch, 6555! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Amboni, Holst, 2760! Portuguese East 
Africa: Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; 
Nsessi River, Scott! Mandala, Scott-Elliot, 8561! Nyika Plateau, Me Clounie y 
Also a weed in South Asia and Australia. This species is not distinguished by 
Hiern from A. nodiflora. 
3. A. echinata, Smith in Rees, Encycl. Suppl. n. 10. Stems pro- 
cumbent, 1-2 ft. long, branched, hairy. Leaves 4-1} in. long, obovate- 
spathulate, shortly petioled. Spikes } in. long, ovoid or ellipsoid, very 
pale brown. Perianth-segments } in. long, lanceolate, mucronate, 
almost prickly in fruit, glabrous, but near the base of 3 of them 1s @ 
dense tuft of small white hairs linear with glochidiate tip. Otherwise 
as A. nodiflora—Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 360; Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 896. 4. Achyrantha, R. Br. Prodr. 417 in obs. ; 
Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii, 358; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 7. 4. 
repens, Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 115, in Bull.’ 
Herb. Boiss. v. Append. iii. 66; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 
i. 235; Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch. Exped. 287. Achyranthes repens, 
Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 205. Tllecebrum Achyrantha, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1. 
299. I. obliquum, Schumach. Beskr. Guin, Pl. 142. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 37! Aburi, Brown, 
410! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 279! Southern Nigeria: between Ibadan and 
Abeokuta, Schlechter, 18033! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 852! 1708! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Isle, Welwitsch, 6541! Lower Congo: near the 
mouth, Smith! Lutete, Hens, A, 300! Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6556 ! 
Loanda, Welwitech, 6536! 65368! Gossweiler, 374! German South-west Africa: 
Damaraland ; Okahandya, Lindner! Hereroland, Marloth, 1345 ! 
23. PHILOXERUS, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen, PI. iii. 40. 
Perfect flowers with two bracteoles. Perianth thickened]at the 
base ; segments 5, oblong. Filaments 5, lanceolate at the base, uni 
into a short cup, without staminodes; anthers 1-celled. Ovary ovoid; 
style hardly any, branches 2, linear; ovule 1, from a basal funicle. 
Utricle ovoid, compressed; seed lenticular; embryo curled.— Leaves 
opposite. Spikes dense, ovoid or oblong, terminal, straw-coloured, 
solitary or clustered. 
Species 10, on the sea-coasts of America, Africa and Australia. 
