40 CVI. AMARANTACEiE (bAK£B AND CLARKE). [JSrva, 



165, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 207 ; 

 Durand & De Wild, in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 1897, 

 85 ; Durand <fe Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 234. Achyranthes lanata, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 204, ed. ii. 296. A. villosa, Forsk. FI. ^gypt.- 

 Arab. 48. Illecebrum lanatum, Linn. Mant. 344 ; Schumach. Beskr. 

 Guin. PI. 144. Ouret lanata, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 893 

 partly. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Talla, Scott-Elliot, 4865 ! Gold Coast: 

 Assin Yan Kumassi, Cummins, 195 1 Krobo Plains, Johnson, 518 ! Togo : near 

 Lome, Warnecke, 14 ! Lagos, Datcodu, 38 1 Millen, 59, 165 ! Canieroons : 

 Ef ulen. Bates, 433 ! 



irile Xiand. Nubia : Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 659 ! Coast-land, 

 Bent ! Erkowit, Broun ! Eritrea : various localities, Schweinfurth, 237, 739, 

 1114,1440. Abyssinia: various localities, Q«ar/tn-Dt7Zo?t ^ Pe^tY, 96 ! Schimper, 

 2491 490! 1030! 2110! Welhy ! Somaliland: various localities, James ^ 

 Thrupp ! Mrs. Lort Phillips ! Hildebrandt, 867 I Donaldson Smith ! Niamniara : 

 at the Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, 2966 ! Uganda, Speke Sf Grant ! Scott- 

 Elliot, 7289 ! British East Africa : Machakos, Scott-Elliot, 6754 ! Kapte Plateau, 

 Thomson! near Mombasa and region around it, Wakefield! Whyte ! Sabaki Valley, 

 Gregory ! Witu, Teede, 2 1 



lower Onlnea. Lower Congo : Kingula, Dupuis ; near the mouth. Smith, 

 36,72! Angola: Golungo Alto; near the Cuango River, Welwitsch, 6b7 5 I 



Sontb Central. Congo Free State; Mtowu, Descamps ; Basoko, Demeuse. 



Mozamb. Slst. Pemba Island, Bojer ! Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1034! 

 German East Africa : Usambara; Tanga, £^ei»*cn, 86! Usaramo; Dar-es-Salaam, 

 Kirk, 127! Kliutu; Zungomero, Speke Sf Grant! Portuguese East Africa: 

 Mozambique, Jbrie*. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Masuku Plateau, 6500- 

 7000ft., Whyte! Nyika Plateau, McClounie, 89! 139! 176! Shire Highlands, 

 Buchanan ! Adatnson, 84 ! Zambesi ; Stewart ! 



Throughout Africa, and warm parts of Asia to the Philippines. 



Var. /3 oblongata, Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop, 174. Leaves thick, 

 densely woolly beneath even in age, usually very close together. Inflorescence a 

 dense narrow panicle, often 1 foot by 1 in., continuous, leafless at top. — Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 207. 



Wile Xiand. Nubia : Soturba Mountains. Schweinfurth, 661 ! Eritrea : Habab, 

 5000 ft., Hildebrandt, 397 ! Abyssinia, Salt ! Schimper, 532, 658 ! Somaliland : 

 Golis Range, Brockman ! British East Africa: Lake Elmeteita, Gregory! Lake 

 Naivasha, Scott-Elliot, 6529 ! Kidung Ndogo, Scott-Elliot, 6659 ! 



Mozamb. 3>i8t. German East Africa : Umba Valley, Smith ! Kilimanjaro, 

 5000 ft., Volkens, 392 ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Zomba and vicinity, 

 2500-3500 ft., Whyte ! 



5. JE. brachiata, Mart, in Nova Acta Nat. Car. xiii. (1826), 

 291. Stem 12-18 in. long, much branched from the base; lower 

 branches often opposite or nearly so. Leaves alternate, nearly glabrate ; 

 blade J-IJ in. long, ovate-elliptic or obovate. Spikes axillary, sessile, 

 often many clustered, \ by ^^ in. (much narrower than in jE. lanata), 

 dense, white. Flowers hardly ^^ in. long, globose ; perianth-segments 

 not acute, 5 or more, often 4-3. " Stamens 2-1 , the staminal tube usually 

 very imperfect and no staminodes to be found. — Moquin in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. ii. 304; Hook. Niger Fl. 492. Achyranthes brachiata, Linn. Mant. 50. 



