428 AMARANTACEZ (Cooke and Wright). [Achyranthes. 
nous base ; anthers 2-celled ; staminodes toothed or with a toothed 
scale on the back. Ovary oblong, slightly compressed, 1-celled ; 
ovule solitary, pendulous from a long basal funicle ; style filiform ; 
stigma capitellate. 
Herbs ; leaves opposite, entire, petiolate ; flowers in slender simple or panicled 
spikes. 
ey Species about 15, in the warm parts of the Old World. 
Leaves pubescent; bracts 1} lin. long... as --. (1) aspera. 
Leaves densely velvety ; bracts 3 lin. long ... (2) robusta. 
1. A. aspera (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 204) ; an erect hairy branched 
herb, 1-4 ft. high; branches terete or obsoletely quadrangular, 
striate ; leaves elliptic or obovate, obtuse or subacute, pubescent on 
both surfaces, 14-3 in. long, 1-14 in. wide ; petiole 3-9 lin. long; 
spikes in flower 2—4 in. long, in fruit lengthening to 20 in. ; bracts 
1} in. long, broadly ovate, acuminate, aristate, membranous, per- 
sistent ; bracteoles as long as the bracts, broadly ovate, spinescent, 
becoming hard and falling off with the fruit ; perianth-segments 
subequal, 2-3 lin. long, ovate-oblong, acute, membranous and white 
on the margins ; stamens 5 ; staminodes quadrate, fimbriate ; ovary 
depressed, obovoid, granular at the top; utricle oblong, truncate, 
thinly membranous, about 1 lin. long, enclosed in the hardened per- 
sistent perianth and bracteoles, smooth, brown; seed ellipsoid ; 
Sour Arrica : without locality, Sieber! Wallich! Drége ! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Milne, 212! Prior! Bolus, 4007! 
Alexander! Groot Schuur, Wolley-Dod, 567! near Cape Town, 500 ft., Bolus, 
2913! Rondebosch, Pappe! Uitenhage Div. ; near Uitenhage, Prior! near Sand 
Fontein and Matjes Fontein, Drege ! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 3050 ! and without 
precise locality, Zeyher, 555 ! 
CENTRAL ReGIoN : Somerset Div. ; at the foot of the Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 
1522! Albert Div., Cooper, 1352! 
Katanari Recon : Griqualand West ; in Leeuwenkuil Valley, at Griquatown, 
Burchell, 1894! Orange River Colony; Mudriver Drift, Rehmann, 3568! Vet 
River, Burke! Transvaal ; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1263 ! Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 
60! Rooiplaat, Miss Leendertz, 798! 799! hill sides near Barberton, 2800 ft., 
Galpin, 920! Potgieters Rust, Miss Leendertz, 1950 ! 
‘Eastern Recion: Natal; near Durban, Gerrard, 492! Wood, 7203! and 
without precise locality, Cooper, 1162! Griqualand East; Clydesdale 2500 ft., 
Vyson, 2681 ! and without precise locality, T'yson ! 
A weed in the hotter parts of the Old World. 
2. A. robusta (C. H. Wright) ; a robust herb ; branches ribbed, 
densely pubescent ; nodes swollen ; leaves broadly ovate or almost 
orbicular, 3 in. long, 2} in. wide, densely velvety on both surfaces, 
