Amaranihtcs.] cvi. amarantace.e (baker and clarke). 33 



narrowed upwards, shortly cuneate at the base ; two stipulary spines, 

 J in. long, in the axils of some of the lower petioles. Spikes cylindric, 

 about J in. broad, the upper long, often closely panicled, the terminal 

 often 3-4 in. long, sometimes much interrupted at the base ; in the 

 lower axils globose spikes are often added. Bracts shortly ovate, 

 cuspidate, hardly overtopping the flowers. Perianth hardly xV^'** ^°°S 5 

 segments 5, oblong, often mucronate. Style often 2-fid. Capsule 

 membranous, circumscissile. — Hook. Niger Fl. 492; Moquin in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. ii. 260 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 718 ; Schinz in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr.C. 172; Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 287 ; Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 887. 



Upper Guinea. Seneg&mh'ia,, Heudelot, 7^5 \ Gambia: B&thnrst, £runner, 

 159 ! Sierra Leone : Sherboro, Scott-Elliot, 5834 ! Freetown, Welwitsch, 6514 ! 

 Vogel^ 13 1 Liberia: near Kakatown, Whyte ! Gold Coast: Aburi, 5row», 411 ! 

 Ashanti, Cummins, 32 ! Lngos, Moloney ! Togo : near Lome, Warnecke, 292 ! 

 Fernando Po ; Vo£/el ! Mann, 32 ! 



fiower Guinea. Angola : Ambriz, Welwitsch, 6515 ! 



BKozamb. Slst. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt, 1037! Nyasaland : Ntondwe 

 Cameron, 127 ! 



Also in India. 



4. A, patulas, Bertol, Comm. Neap, 19, t. 2. Stem 1-3 ft. long, 

 less erect and more branched than in A. caudatus. Leaves 2-3 J in. 

 long, ovate, narrowed upwards ; no spines in the axils. Spikes cylindric, 

 about \ in. broad, the upper long, often closely panicled, the terminal 

 often 3-4 in. long ; in the lower axils globose spikes are often added. 

 Bracts ovate, cuspidate, about as long as the perianth, or frequently 

 shorter than it. Segments of the perianth 5, broadly oblong, obtuse, 

 scarcely mucronate. Capsule thin (the seed escaping), more or less 

 distinctly circumscissile. — Webb & Berth, lies Canaires, Phyt. iii. 286 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 989. 



Xrile 3Land. Sritish East Africa ; Tana River, Gregory ! 



Kozamb. Dlst. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt, 1036 ! German East Africa : Usam- 

 bara; Tanga, Rolst, 2068! Amboni, Hoist, 2771! and without precise locality, 

 Busse, 183 ! Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Scott ! British Central Africa : 

 North Nyasa, Whyte ! 



A native of the Southern United States, now spread in the Mediterranean 

 region, with the Cape Verde Isles and the Canaries. 



This plant is issued by Gilg without a specific name. It differs from most of tlie 

 plants with which it has been mixed by the short bracts. It is, in one word, 

 Amaranthus spinosus, Linn., without any spines. It is reduced by Moquin (in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. ii. 259) to A. chlorostachys, Willd., a plant with '* acuminate sepals," as 

 Moquin says; and whicli does not, therefore, match it superficially. 



5. A viridis, Linn. Sp. PI ed. 2, 1405. Suberect, 1-3 ft. high. 

 Leaves long- petioied ; blade 1-3 in. long, ovate or elliptic. Spikes 

 linear, the terminal 2-4 in. long, panicled towards the ends of the 

 branches, much looser than in the allied species, the pedicels visible. 

 Perianth y\ in. long ; segments 3, elliptic, acute. Fruit as long as the 

 perianth, indehiscent, wrinkled, shrinking on the nut, herbaceous, 



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