426 AMARANTACEA (Cooke and Wright). [ drva. 
tee oe 
style } lin. long; stigma 2, very short. Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 96 ; 
Baker & C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 39. Af. ambigua, 
Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 302. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1441! 
Katawari ReGIon: Griqualand West ; Leeuwenkuil Valley, near Griqua Town, 
Burchell, 1892! Klipfontein, Burchell, 2620! Dutoits Pan and Klip Drift, Tuck, 
9! Orange River Colony; Modder River, Mrs. Barber, 15! Bechuanaland ; 
Batlapin Territory, Holub! Transvaal ; near Pretoria, 5200 ft., Schlechter, 4146 ! 
McLea in Herb, Bolus, 3132! 5782! Magalies Berg, Burke! Rimers Creek, near 
Barberton, Thorncroft, 410! Galpin, 912! Klerksdorp, Nelson, 222! Vaal River, 
Burke! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1253; Springbok Flats, Burtt-Davy, 2344! 
Warm Bath, Miss Leendertz, 2007! Potgieters Rust, Miss Leendertz, 1133! 
Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5972! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
2. H. lanata (Juss. in Ann. Mus. Par. ii. [1803] 131); 14-3 ft. 
high ; stems erect or ascending, suffruticose below, branched, terete, 
striatulate, pubescent or woolly-tomentose ; leaves alternate, }-1} in. 
long, 2-8 in. wide on the main stem, smaller on the branches ; 
elliptic or obovate or suborbicular, obtuse or acute, entire, pubescent 
above, more or less white-woolly (especially when young) beneath, 
very shortly or not mucronulate; nerves beneath scarcely con- 
spicuous ; petioles 2—4 lin. long ; flowers white or greenish, in small 
dense axillary woolly heads or spikes }~-} in. long, often crowded 
and forming globose clusters, the upper spikes not running into 
leafless terminal panicles ; bracteoles less than } lin. long, ovate, 
concave, apiculate, hyaline; perianth 3 lin. long, woolly ; sepals 
subequal, oblong, the 2 outer very shortly and finely apiculate, all 
woolly ; stamens united into a tube with interposed staminodes 
shorter than the filaments; ovary subglobose ; style about } lin. 
long ; stigmas 2, minute; seeds rather more than } lin. long, 
slightly broader than long, subreniform, black, smooth, shining. 
Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii, 303; Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 96 ; 
Baker & ©. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 39; A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. ii. 214; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 141 ; Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 728. Achyranthes lanata, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1. 
204. 
