34 cvi. AMARANTACE^ (baker AND clarke). [Amavanthics. 



not membranous, with no trace of a transverse line. — Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. iv. 720 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welvv. i. 888 ; Durand Sz De 

 Wild, in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 85 ; Durand Sc Schinz, 

 Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 238 (excl. syn. Euxolus viridls, Moquin). Euxolus 

 caudatus, Hook. Niger Fl. 492 in obs. ; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. 

 ii. 274, partly. Chenopodiiuii caudatum, Jacq. Ic. PI. Rar. t. 344 ? 

 Albersia caudata, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 902 ; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 iv. Append, ii. 164. 



Upper Guinea. Togo: near Lome, WaruecJce, 295! 363. Nortliern 

 Nigeria : Nnpe, Barter, 1055 ! 



irile Iiand. Eritrea, Scliiveinfurth, 191, 231, 1-133. 



Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Burton ! Tondoa, Btiettner, 322. Angola : 

 Loanda, Welivitxch, 6512, 6517 ! Gossiveihr, 277 ! Barra do Bengo, Welwitsch, 

 6518 ! Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6519 ! Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 6520 ! 



Soutli Central. Congo Free State : Lunfundi ? Demeuse. 



Mozamb. Di8t. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi, between Tcte and 

 Kaorabassa Kapids, Kirk .' 



Widely distributed in warm countries — ^a weed. 



This species is easily recognised by the small pedici'llate flowers in panicled long 

 spikes; also by the absolutely indehiscent herbaceous fruits. — Jaccjuin {Ic. Fl. Rar. 

 t. 341) shows the ]wrianth-se^ments 5, equal; which, so tar as known, does not 

 occur in this species. Either, therefore, the synonymy of Mocpiin (and others) 

 founded on it falls to the ground, or an error must be assumed in the plate. 



6. A. oleraceus, Linn. Sp. PL ed. ii. 1403. Inflorescence 

 copiously axillary, the terminal running into a dense cylindric leafless 

 mass; otherwise as A, pohjijamus, Linn. — For.sk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. 

 cxxi. A. Bliium, var. olercicea., Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 721. 

 Euxolus viridis, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 273; ? Hook. Niger Fl. 

 492. Albersia oleracea, Kunth, Fl. Berol, ii. 144; Boiss. Fl. Orient, 

 iv. 991. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Farmar, 3 ! 24 ! 



irile Xiand. Abyssinia: near Adowa, Schimper, 1069! 



Mozamb. Blst. Portuguese East Africa : Machcmga, t/oAw^o??, 269 ! British 

 Central Africa : Nyasahind; near Mbaslie Lagoon, Scott ! near Zomba, WJtyte ! 



In all warm countries — a weed. 



Var. j3 maxima, C. B. CI. Leaf -blade 4h by 2^ in. ; terminal intlorescence 4 by 

 1-1 i in., dense ; fruits thin, larger than in A. oleraceus, the seeds plentifully 

 escaping. 



Utile Ziand. Uganda : Kuwenzori, " in banana patches," Scott-Elliot^ 7941 ! 



I suppose this to be a garden (or cultivated?) form of ^. oleraceus, Linn. 



7. A. grsecizans, Linn. Sp. PI. ed, i. 990, ed. ii. 1405, Decum- 

 bent or spreading ; branches 1-2 ft. long. Leaves long-petioled ; blade 

 1-2 in. long, elliptic, narrowed at either end. Spikes globose, copious, 

 axillary, the uppermost running sometimes into a single terminal oblong 

 inflorescence 3-1 J in. long. Perianth-segments 3 (2 inner rather 

 narrower added in the well-developed bisexual flowers), broadly elliptic, 



