38 CVI. AMARANTACE/E (bAKER AND CLARKE). [/ErvU. 



504 ; T. Thorns, in Speke, Nile, Append. 640 ; Oliver in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxix. 141; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 207; Boiss. Fl. Orient, 

 iv. 092; Zarb in Cat. Spec. Bot. Pfund, ;^>3 ; Schinz in Engl, tk Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 109, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 105, iu 

 Engl. Ptl. Ost-Afr. C. 173 ; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 174, 

 not of Juss. Iresinepersica, Burm. Fl. Ind. 212, t. 05, fig. 1. Achyranthes 

 incana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 671. A. totnentosa, Tuckey, Congo Yoy. 

 249. Cretia jjersica, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. 544, partly. Ouret 

 persica, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 893. 



Upper Guinea. Gambia, Park ! French Sudan : El Aralaclji, Chevalier, 

 1174! Timbuctu, Chevalier, 1286! Senegal, iJo/jr^r / Schotte ! Bdllinger, \l\ 

 Cape Yerdie, Brunner, 2! Northern Nigeria: Bornu ; Ktika, Togel, 15 I Maign- 

 nieri, Elliott, 124 ! 



Wrile Xiand. Ethiopia, Kotschi/, 314! Nubia: Mesne & Derr, Ehrenherg ! 

 sea-coast. Bent I Sagudi, Schweinf urlh, 601 ! Otao, Johnxton ! DonjjoLi, BromfieUl ! 

 Eritrea: Shoho. Quartin-DUlon 'Sf Petit^ 225! Habab, Hildehrandt^ 398! Gliedem 

 Mountain, Schweinfurth Sf liiva, 90 ! near Massowa, Schweinf nrth, 17, 79 ; (linda, 

 Schweinf urth, 252;' Keren, Schiceinfurth, 993; Cieleb, Schweinfurth, 1411. Abys- 

 sinia: Tacazze River Valley, Schimper, 1773! and without precise lonilify, Salt ! 

 Schimper, 207 ! 480 ! Somaliland : coas.t at Kismayo, Kir/c ! lierbera, Perry ! 

 Haud, Thomson, HQ\ W\\\m\^ Donaldson Smith! and without pi-ecise locality, Mrs. 

 Lort Phillips! Sudan: near Khartoum, PethericTc ! Nile, south of Khartoum, 

 Speke Sf Grant ! Seiinar, Schweinfurth, 652 I Kordofan, Kotschg, AO ! Pfund, 51 ! 

 Darfur, Purdg, 7 I liritish East Africa: Uknmbani, Gregorg, 115! Taita Moun- 

 tains, Hildebrandf, 2479 ! Mombasa to Takaunga, Whyte ! Witu, Thomas, 45 ! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa: Dar-cs-Salaam, Hildehrandt, 1238! 

 Rufidji, 800 ft., Goetze, 52 ! Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi, Stewart ! 

 between Lupata and Tete, Kirk ! Ngamiland, Kwebe, Z«^a re?, 180 I 



Extending into North Africa and through the Orient to the North and West of 

 India. 



Var. |3 Bovei, C. R. CI. A smaller, bunit-np form ; leaves about 1 in. long, often 



less, oblong or obovate, sometimes recin-ved ; flowers smaller, s])ikes much more slender 



and often mucb interrui)ted. ^E. javanica, var. Bovei, Webb in Hook. Niger Fl. 



173 ; Moquin iu DC. Rrodr. xiii. ii. 300; Aschers. in Schweinf. lieitr. Fl. Aethiop. 174. 



lO'ortli Central. 'J'ebn : Agadem, J'ogel ! 



irile Ziand. Desert near Di-bba, ^rown .' Nubia: between Snakin and Rerber, 

 Schweinfurtli, 653, 654^ (581 I Dnlac Islands; ^i\YQ.i, Steudner, QtbiSl Kordofan, 

 Kotschy, 16 ! 



For?kal gives the full name of this speci< s on page cxxii., and an excellent 

 description on page l70. Jussieu (in Ann. Mus. Par. ii. 1803, J31) mentions 

 ^'Javanicuvi" as a species he would transfer to ^rva ; and, by tracing back, it is 

 found that be meaiit Iresine javanica, iiurm. {Fl. Ind. t. 65, tig. 2). It is evi- 

 dent, from Rurmann's fi>^ures, that JE. tomeiitosa, Forsk., is J res- ine persica, Burm., 

 which does not extend so far east as tlie Malay Peninsula and Java. If, therefore, 

 either of Rurmann's names is to be taken, it will l)e persica (as lias bein done by 

 O. Kuntze and Hiern) ; but uE. iomentosa, Foisk., is not only the older name, but 

 expresses the one characteristic on which the species stands. 



2. .ffi. Ruspolii, Lojyr. in Engl. Jahrh. xxvii. 57. Stem J in. in 

 diam , woody. Branches from the base numerous, repeatedly divided, 

 rigid, with tawny tomentum. Leaves ^ in. long, oblong and obovate, 

 tawny tomentose, many reflexed. Spikes small, narrow, interrupted, as 



