Amaranthus.] cvi. amarantace^ (baker and clarke). 35 



subobtuse, with a long filiform recurved tail, about ^g- in. long exclu- 

 sive of the tail. Bracts elongate-lanceolate, mucronate, as long as the 

 perianth-segments (including their tails). Capsule thin, circumscissile. 

 — Zarb in Cat. Sp^c. Bot. Pfund, 33 ; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. 176 ; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 93, 

 fig. A, in Bull. Herb. Boiss.iv. Append, ii. 163, in Engl. Pa. Ost-Afr. 0. 

 172; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 206; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 887. A. Thunhergii, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 262. 

 A. Blititni, var. ^ grcecizans, Moquin, I.e. 263. 



Wile Ziand. Eritrea, Schioeinfurth, 39, 64, 528. 



3Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 6527! 6528! Huilla, 



Welwitsch, 6497 ! 



XVIozamb. Dist. Poi*tiiguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi at Shnpanga, 

 Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Fort Hill, Wltyte ! Shire Valley, 

 Scott! 



This is a larger plant than A. BlCtum, Linn., with larger leaves and flowers, and 

 much longer tails to the perianth-segments. In Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 

 lA, 103, A. viridis, Linn., is referred to this species, to which I do not accede. 



8. A. Blitum, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 990, ed. ii. 1405. A glabrous, 

 much-branched, small annual, decumbent or erect, rarely more than 

 15 in. high. Leaves (including the petiole) usually small, J-1 J (rarely 2) 

 in. long, varying from narrow-oblong to obovate. Inflorescence copious, 

 entirely axillary. Perianth hardly y^^ in. long, shorter than the fruit; 

 segments 3, elliptic or lanceolate. Fruit small, y-t'to ^"- ^^ng, ovoid; 

 sometimes succulent, indehiscent ; sometimes thin, the seed escaping, 

 more or less obscurely circumscissile. — Forsk. FI. ^gypt.-Arab. cxxi ; 

 Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 263, partly ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 

 721 ; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 103, in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172-; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 888. A. syl- 

 V€8t7'is, Zarb in Cat. Spec. Bot. Pfund, 33 ? A. Dinteri^ Schinz in 

 M6m. Herb. Boiss. xx. 15edescript. Euxoluspolygamus, Hook. Niger 

 Fl. 492. Alhersia Bliticm, Kunth, Fl. Berol. ii. 144; Boiss. Fl. Orient, 

 vi. 991. 



Upper Guinea. French Sudan ; Lorn, Chevalier, 1022 ! Gold Coast : Accra,. 

 Vogel, 21! Soutlu'rn Nigeria: Onitsii, Barter, 539! Northern Nigeria: Kuka, 

 Vogel, 31 j Nupe, Barter, 1716 ! 1727 ! 



Zrile Iiand. Nubia: sea-coast. Lord! Bent! Suakin, Schioeinfurthy fi25 ! 

 Ethiopia, Kutsrhi/, 167 ! Ahyssiniii, Schimper^ 489 ! Kordofan, Pfund, 147! 500! 

 Kotschy, 48 ! Uganda, Bagsliaice ! British East Africa : Gilgil River, Scott- 

 Elliot, 6664 ! 



Iioiver Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Jfehoitsch, 6o24:l 6525! Icolo e Bengo; 

 on the coast, Welwitsch, 6523! Golunjio Alto: about Sange, Welwitsch, 6521 I 

 Cazengo; base of Muxaula Mountain, Welivitsc/i, 6b26l Pungo Andongo ; Condo, 

 WelwifscJt, 6522 I 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Dar-es-Salaam, Hildebrandt, 1035 ! 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between Mpata and the Tanganyika Plateau, 

 2000-3000 ft., Whyte! Namasi, Cameron, 23! Shire Highlands, Scott-Elliot, 

 8634! 



