20 CVI. AMARANTACE.E (bAKER AND CLARKE). [Celosia, 



Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 240; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 211 ; 

 T. Thorns, in Speke, Nile, Append. G46 ; Garcke in Peters, Reise 

 Mossamb. Bot. 504 ; Zarb in Cat. Spec. Bot. Pfund, 33 ; Oliver in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxix. 140, excl. syn. ; Aschers. in Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 179 (excl. Ehrenberg's Togodele plant); Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 205; Schinz in Engl.<t Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iii. lA, 99, in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 180, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, 

 ii. 162, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr, C. 172; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Wehv. 

 i. 884 ; E. G. Baker in Tnms. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv, 39 ; Dur. <fe 

 Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 232 ; Dur. & DeWild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. 

 Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 85. C. caudata, Vahl, Symb. i. 21. C. melanocaiyos, 

 Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 318. C. triloba^ Meisn. in Hook. London Journ. 

 ii. (1843), 448 (548). C. chenopodiifolia and C. sempeo-Jlorens, Baker 

 in Kew Bulletin, 1 897, 276, 277 (both which I make out to be trigynous). 

 C. adoeiisis, Hochst. & Steud. ex A.Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 211. 

 Achyranthes deciLmbens and A. paniculata, Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. 

 47, 48. Lestibmlebia trigyna^ R. Br. Prodr. 414. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger ! Senegambia, Heudelot, 120 ! Cape Verde, 

 Brunner, 139! Sierra Leone, Smeathmann ! Afzelius! Samu, Scott-Elliot, 4331 ! 

 French Guinea : Dantilia, Scott-Elliot, 5267 ! Gold Coast : Aburi, Broivn, 311 ! 

 Johnson^ 1096 ! Krobo, Johnson^ 554 ! Accra, Don ! Aiisell ! Togo, Warnecke, 27 ! 

 Northern Nigeria: Stirling Hill, Vogel, 132! Ansel I ! Nupe, Baikie ! IJorgu, 

 Barter, 1341 ! Fernando Po, Barter ! Vogel, 180 ! Cameroons : Yaunde, 2500 ft., 

 Zenker Sf Staudt, 345 ! and without precise locality, Preust, 1291 ! 



Wile X.and. Nubia, Kotschy, 79 ! 369 ! Eritrea, Schtceinfurth, 254, 331, 

 1650, 1876, 2035, 2182. Galabat : Matamnia, Schweinfurth, 665! Abyssinia: 

 Adowa, Sc/iimper, 49 ! Tigre, Schimper, 111 ! and without precise locality, Qu.artin- 

 Dillon 8( Petit, 221 ! Togodele, Ehrenberg ! Kordofan, Kotschy, 75 I 285 ! Pfuttd, 

 899 ! Upper Sennar : Fazokl, Kotschy, 548 ! White Nile, Murie ! Schweinfurth, 

 1050! Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 782! Jur, Schweinfurth, 2387! Niamniam, 

 Schtveinfurth, 2986! Uganda : Entebbe, 3900 ft., Brown, 35 ! Busogo, in garden.*, 

 Whyte, B, 5 ! and without precise locality, Cunningham ! Wilson, 463 ! Speke <^ 

 Grant I British East Africa : Kavirondo, Scott-Elliot, 7019 ! Ribe, Wakefield ! 

 Mombasa, Wakefield ! 



Xiower Guinea. Annabon Island, Burton ! Loango, Soyaux, 194 ! Lower 

 Congo : Bingila, Dupuis ; and without precise locality. Smith ! Burton ! Angola : 

 Dembe, Monteiro ! Huilla, Welwitsch, 6485 ! Loanda, Weltvitsch, 6537 ! Goss- 

 weiler, 172! 392! 6560; Ambriz, Welwitsch, 6557! Golungo Alto, Wehbitsch, 

 6562 ! Ambaca, Weltvitsch, 6571 ! Chella Mountains, Johnston/ 



Soutli Central. Congo Free State : Congo Forest, Doggett ! Mtowa 

 Descamps. 



Mozamb. Blst. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt , 1033 !" German East Africa : 

 Karagwe ; Kagera River, 5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8139 ! Nyasaland : Nyika Plateau, 

 McClounie, 105 ! 156 ! Namasi, Cameron, 31 ! Masuku Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., 

 Whyte ! Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte ! Mlanji, Whyte, 166 ! Blantyre, Last ! 

 Buchanan, 52 ! Manganja Hills, Meller ! Lower Zambesi : Tete, Kirk ! Uoruma, 

 Menyharth, 823 ! Matabeleland, Holub ! 



Also in Madagascar and Arabia. 



There may be two species here : in C. semperflorens, J. G. Baker (nearly = 

 C. adoensis, Hochst. et Steud.), the long inflorescences are reduced nearly or quite 



