492 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
— Accra, and on the Quorra, Vogel; St. Thomas, Don; East 
Africa and East India. 
1. Amarantus paniculatus, Linn.—Mog. in DC. Prod. 13. 2. 
p. 257.—On the Quorra, Vogel.—A common East Indian 
species, to which belongs the variety cultivated there for the 
grain, originally named by Roxburgh A. farinaceus, though 
afterwards published by him as 4. frumentaceus. 
2. Amarantus spinosus, Linn.—Mog. in DC. Prod. 13. 2. 
p. 260.—Sierra Leone and Fernando Po, about dwellings 
and cultivated places; Senegal and Tropical and warmer - 
regions of both hemispheres. 
Another common Tropical weed, Amblogyne polygonoides, 
Raf., is also found in Senegal. 
l. Euxolus polygamus, Moq. in DC. Prod. 18. 2. p. 272.— 
Accra, Vogel; Senegal, Eastern Africa and East India. 
2. Euxolus viridis, Moq. in DC. Prod. 13. 2. p. 278.—On the 
Nun, Vogel; common over a great portion of the globe. 
The Euxolus caudatus, Moq., frequent throughout the 
Tropics, is found in Senegal and Sierra Leone; and two other 
common African and East Indian plants, Arua Javanica, Juss., 
and Æ. brachiata, Mart., are also in Senegal. 
1. Achyranthes involucrata, Moq. in DC. Prod. 13.2. p. 310.— 
On the Quorra, at Stirling and Pandiaki, Vogel, Ansell. 
2. Achyranthes (Pandiaka) angustifolia, Benth.; caule her- 
baceo elongato subramoso appresse pubescente, foliis lineari- 
sublanceolatis strigoso-pubescentibus viridibus subtus pallidis, 
capitulis ovatis oblongisve obtusis, floribus albidis, sepalis 
bracteas laterales subæquantibus enervibus dorso dense pi- 
losis.—On the Quorra, Vogel. 
Pluribus notis cum descriptione 4. Heudelotii convenit. Herba 
videtur annua, ejusdem staturæ. Folia longiora et angus- 
tiora. | Capitula ejusdem forma et magnitudine, intra folia 
2-24-pollicaria sessilia. ^ Bractece albz, nitidule, aristato- 
mucronate, infima glabra, laterales ad costam dorsalem longe 
ciliate. Sepala in mucronem rigidum producta, quam arista 
bractearum breviora (bracteam ipsam arista neglecta supe- 
