Ouret] CI. AMARANTHACE^. 893 



10. OURET Adans. Earn. PI. ii. p. 268 (1763). 



jErva Forsk. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 34 {^rua). 

 Uretia O. Kuntze, Kev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 544 (1891). 



1. 0. persica 0. Kuntze, Ix. {Uretia), imrtly. 



^rva tomentosa Forsk. Fl. ^.gypt.-Arab. pp. cxxii. 170(1775). 

 Iresine javanica Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 212 (312), t. 65. fig. 2 (1768). 

 /. persica Burm., I.e., p. 212 (312), t. 65. fig. 1. jE. cegyptiaca 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 1026 (1791). jE. javanica Juss. in Ann. 

 Mus. Paris, xi. p. 131 (1808); J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap Verd. 

 Ins. p. 175 (1852). Achyranthes tomentosa Chr. Sm. in Tuckey, 

 Congo, p. 249 (1818). 



Cape de Verde Islands. — In neglected fields, very plentiful, in 

 company with " Bombardeira " {Calotroiyis procera Ait., Welw. herb, 

 no. 4180 and Coll. Carp. n. 21 ; ante p. 687), near Villa da Praia in the 

 island of St, Jago ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. Xo. 6545. A herb, appa- 

 rently annual ; stems branched, ascending, 1 to 3 ft. high and more ; 

 flower-spikes paniculate, silvery-woolly. In the islands of St. Jago 

 and St. Vincent ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. Coll. Carp. 122. 



2. 0. scandens. 



jErva scandens Wall. List, p. 231, n. 6911 (1832?); Moq. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii., 2, p. 302 (1849). Achyranthes scandens 'Roxh. Fl. 

 Ind., edit. Carey, ii. p. 503 (1824). Uretia sanguinolenta 0. Kuntze, 

 I.e., partly. 



Bumbo. — At the margins of fields of Saccharum, plentiful ; fl. and 

 fr. Oct. 1859. Xo. 6496. 



3. 0. lanata. 



Achyrayithes lanata L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 204 (1753). jErua 

 lanata Juss., I.e. Uretia persica 0. Kuntze, I.e., 'partly. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb, 1 to 4 ft. high, sometimes strictly erect, 

 in other cases climbing among bushes with its almost tomentose stem ; 

 flower-spikes snow-white, shining. In damp shady places by thickets 

 and in rocky places at the river Cuango near Cacarambola and Cacuzo ; 

 fl. and fr. Jan. 1855. No. 6675. In fl. and fr. 25 Sept. 1854. Coll. 

 Carp. 870. 



Huilla. — In plantations of maize near Eme ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 ; 

 in places flooded in the summer (elevations in the forest) ; fl. and fr 

 Feb. 1860. No. 6494. 



11. ACHYRANTHES L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 35. 

 Cyathida Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 101 (1790); nee Blume (1825); 



nee Benth. & Hook. f. 



1. A. aspera L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 204 (1753). 



A. argentea Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 545 (1783). Cyatula 

 geniculata Lour. I.e., p. 102. 



Loanda.— By fences and thickets throughout the district, plentiful ; 

 in bushy places near Forte de Penedo, not far from the ocean; fl, and 

 fr. end of April 1854. Nos. 6530, 6530&. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An annual and biennial herb ; adult stems mostly 

 prostrate, with ascending branches and lateral flowering branchlets 

 quite patent. By thickets near Sange, plentiful ; fl. and fr. June 1856. 



