894 CI. AMARANTHACE^. [Achyrauthes 



A variety with purple anthers and the cup of the monadelphous 

 filaments deep rosy. No. 6548. An annual or biennial, prostrate or 

 erect herb, paler throughout than the last No. By thickets behind 

 the village of Sange, plentiful ; fl. and fr. June 1856. A variety with 

 the cup of filaments white. No. 6517. An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, 

 with whitish flowers. In grassy secondary thickets near Bango ; fl. 

 and fr. May 1856. No. 6576. In wooded thickets near Catumba ; fr. 

 July 1856. An old plant. No. 6574. About Bumba ; fl. and fr. No. 

 6573. In fl. and fr. No. 6552&. 



MossAMEDES. — An annual herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with numerous stems 

 from the base, patently branched ; flower-spikes whitish rosy. In 

 bushy places by the banks of the river Bero, at Fazenda do Senhor 

 Viana ; fl. and fr. Aug. 1859. No. 6499. 



HuiLLA.— At LopoUo ; fl. end of March 1860. No. 6510. In the 

 Monino wooded thickets, sparingly ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. Root thin, 

 elongated, fibrous, annual. No. 6492. 



This plant is perhaps the herbaceous Amaranthacea, with sordid- 

 white spicate flowers, referred to by Welwitsch in Ann. Cons. Ultramar. 

 No. 7, Aug. 1854, p. 83. n. 82, as occurring in thickets near Loanda in 

 Jan. 1854. 



2. A. bidentata Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. (xi.)p.545 (1825). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An erect herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, with erect-spreading 

 branches ; flower-spikes greenish, dusky-purple towards the apex, 

 shining. In the primitive forests of the Queta mountains, above 

 N-delle, rather rare ; fl. and fr. May 1856. No. 6544. 



Perhaps only a variety of the previous species. 



12. PANDIAKA Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 35. 

 Achyrauthes, sect. Pandiaka, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 310 

 (1849). 



1. P. Heudelotii Jacks. Ind. Kew. ii. p. 409 (1894). 

 Achyranthes Heudelotii Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 310 (1849). 

 PuNGO Andongo.— In Pedras de Guinga ; fl. and fr. No. 6565. 



At Candumba on the river Quanza ; fl. and fr. Nos. 6568, 6568&. 



A. angustifoUa Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 492 (1849) is, perhaps, 

 not distinct. 



2. P. debilis. 



Psilotrichum debile Baker in Kew Bull. 1897, p. 279 (Sept.). 

 PuNGo Andongo. — In Pedras de Guinga : fl. and fr. No. 6570. 



3. P. Welwitschii. 



Achyranthes Welwitschii Schinz in Engl. Bot. Jalirb. xxi. p. 187 

 (1895). 



HuiLLA.— At Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 6488. 



The following No. is, probably, a monstrous state of this 

 species : — 



HuiLLA. — A perennial herb ; stems crowded, oblique or erect ; 

 leaves bright green above, paler beneath ; flower-spikes whitish. In 

 moist thickets near Humpata ; in imperfect fl. April 1860. No. 6491. 



4. P. ramulosa Hiern, sp. n. 



Eootstock woody, polycephalous ; branches pubescent, pallid, 

 slender, herbaceous ; branclilets numerous, rather erect than 



