^rva.] CVI. AMARANTACE,^2 (bAKER AND CLARKE). 39 



of jH. tomentosa^ Forsk., var. Bovei. — Lopr. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Rom. 

 ix. IH, in Malpighia, xiv. 431. 



wile Iiand. Xubia : in the sliing-le-desert in the vicinity of Berber, Speke Sf 

 Grant ! 



I describe above the Kew specimen, which I esteem an extreme desert burnt-up 

 state of u^. tomentosa, var. Bovei. I have not got an authentic example of 

 Lopriore's .E. Rusjjolii, and only guess this to be his plant from his full description, 

 and the identic habitat. 



3. IE, leucura, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 302. Stem 3-4 ft. 

 high, suberect, often much branched towards the top, simply hairy, or in 

 age often glabrate (without stellate hairs). Leaves alternate, 2-3 in. 

 long, broadly oblong, simply hairy when young. Spikes 1 by J in., 

 dense, white (smaller than those of J^. tomentosa), on the elongate 

 obliquely ascending upper branches of the stem. Bracts and sepals 

 mucronate or subaristate, the glabrous white soft points shining through 

 the plentiful fine hair of the flowers. Style-branches 2, short, sometimes 

 very short. — Schinz in Engl. S^ Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 1U9, 

 in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. G5 ; Warb. in Baum, Kunene- 

 Samb. Exped. 231, 433. Oiiret scandens, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 i. 893, excl. syn. 0. laiiata, Hiern, I.e. 893, partly (i.e., Welwitsch, 

 6494). 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in maize-fields near Erne, 3500-5800 ft,, 

 Welwitsch, 6494! Bumbo; edges ot saccharum-fields, WelioitscJi, 6496! Chitanda 

 River, 3700 ft.. i?a«)/j, 946! German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Kehobotli, 

 4Schinz, 5, Fleck, 149; Otjitambe, Belc/c, 41, Fleck, 528. 



Mozamb. Dlst. Portuguese East Africa : east coast of Lake Xyasa, John- 

 son, 171 l}iitislj Central Afiica: Nyasaland; Zomba, SharpSf 199! Blantyre, 

 Buchanan, 1246 ! Namasi, Cameron, 17 ! Shire and Shupanga, Stewart ! Lower 

 Shire, Meller I Malanga, Scott ! Magomero, Meller ! 



Also in South Africa. 



The Indian JE". scandens is a large climber, the lateral branches springing at 

 right angles from the stem, the iuHorescence lunning off into "linear panicles," 

 unlike that of ^F. leucura. 



4. JE, lanata, Juss. in Ann. Mas. Par. ii. (1803), 131. Villous or 

 pubescent, 1-4 it. high ; branches often long, curved. Leaves alternate, 

 1^ in. long, ovate, when young woolly beneath, in age usually thin and 

 nearly glabrate. Inflorescence axillary; spikes | in. long in the lower 

 axils, upper spikes often ^ in. long, not running into leatless terminal 

 inflorescences. Flowers small, with much dense fine white wool, whence 

 the soft glabrous points of the bracts very shortly stand out. Stamens T), 

 united into a tube with teeth interposed. Style shorter than the ovary, 

 shortly or obscurely 2-branched. — Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 303 ; 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 214; (iarcke in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 

 Bot. 504 ; Zarb. in Oat. Spec. Bot. Pfund, 33 ; Aschers. in Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 174; T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. G4(l ; 

 Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 141 ; Wight, Ic. t. 723 ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. iv. 728; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 9:)3; Schinz in Engl, it 

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



