32 cvi. AMARANTACEiE (baker AND CLARKE). [Amavanthus . 



cf. Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 34, 35. A. alopecurus and A. sanguineus, 

 A. Braun & Bouche in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1872, Append. 1-2. 



Upper Galnea. Sieri a Leone : Slierboro, Scott-Elliot, 5761 ! Scarcies, Siott- 

 Elliot, 4653 ! Quori-a (Niger) Kivor, Vogel, 129 ! 



Nile I.ancl. Kordofan, Pfund, 258 ! Galabnt : Matamma, Schtceinfnrth, 619, 

 620! Abyssinia: near Adowa, -S'c/awjiiey, 359 1 1077! 1513! 1535! 1537! Aniba 

 Sea, 6500 ft., Schimper, 276 ! nnd without precise locality, Quartin-Dillon ^ 

 Petit, 98 (185)! Pearce ! Madi, Spelce Sf Grant^ 449! Uganda: Kampala, 

 Scott-Elliot, 7301! British East Africa : Ribe, Wakefield! 



Ztower Guinea. Lower Congo: Embowa, Btirton ! Stanley Pool, 900 ft., 

 Hens, \\, 99! liiiigila, Duptiis ! Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6513b! 

 Cazengo, Welwitsch, QbVS \ Loanda, TfWm7*c/<, 6512 ! German South-west Africa: 

 Amboland; Olukonda, Sc/iinz, 2, Eautanen, 138. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Karagwe, Speke ^' Grant, 449 ! and 

 without precise locality, :Busse, 182 ! Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, 

 Forbes ! Zambesi, Steicart ! Nyasaland : North Xyasa, Scott ! Nyika Plateau, 

 McClonnie, 159 ! , Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! near Muata 

 Manja stream, 40OO ft., Kirk! Manganja Hills, Meller ! Likoma Islands, 

 Johnson, 31 ! 



Cultivated throughout warm Africa as a grain ; as is A. panicvlattis throughout 

 India; the two are separable, as the red wheat of Essex is separable from the white 

 wheat of Wilts. In accordance with the canon of Darwin, the nut, being the part 

 economically used, is the part of the plant that varies ; see the excellent account by 

 Hook. f. {FL Brit. Ind. iv. 719). 



2. A. tricolor, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, 980, ed. 2, 1403. An erect 

 annual, 1-5 ft. high. Leaf-blade spathulate-ovate, acuminate, often 4 in. 

 long; petioles 1-2 J in. long. Spikes numerous, the terminal one long- 

 cylindric, often with several penultimate forming a panicle ; nearly 

 always axillary spikes, even in the lower axils, are added. Perianth -^j^ 

 in. long; segments 3, lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate; bracts long- 

 awned, equalling or overtopping the perianth. Capsule membranous, 

 ultimately circumscissile ; style-branches usually 3. — Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 887. A. melancholicus, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 980, 

 ed. 2, 1403; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 163. A. 

 gangeticus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1208, Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1403; 

 Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 2G1 ; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 719; 

 Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 1G3. A. tristis, Garcke in 

 Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 504; Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 989 ? 



Wile I.and. Eritrea: Ginda, 3000 ft., Svhtveinfurth 4- Eiva, 21801 Massowa, 

 Schweinfv.rth, 231 ; Geleb, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth, 1148. Galabat : Matamma,. 

 Schweinfurth, 615, 617 ! 



Xiower Galnea. Angola : Loanda, 0-1000 ft., WeUcitsch, 6516 ! 



Mozamb. Bist. Mozambitjue, Forbes! 



In India, cultivated and a weed. 



Boissier {Fl. Orient, iv. 990) says that he found, in his specimens of A. 

 gangeticus from India, the perianth-segments always 5. From this it would appear 

 that his specimens were some form of A. caudatus. 



3. A. spinosus, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1,-991, ed. 2, 1407. Stem 1-3 

 ft. high, suberect. Leaves long-petioled ; blade 2-3 in. long, ovate. 



