48 CVI. AMARANTACILE (bAKER AND CLARKE). [Pupolta. 



Haveac&iis, DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 102. Pupal lappacea, Hiern. in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 891. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot, 486 ! Roger, 78 ! Gambia, Ingram ! 

 <jolcl Coast: Cai)e Coast' Castle, Vogel, 26! Aslianti ; Dunqunh, Cummins, 19! 

 Lagos: Abbeokuta, 7r»t»^ .' Southern Nigeria: Aboli, ^ar^er, 474 ! Oloke Meji, 

 Jb*/er, 300 J Northern Nigeria: Kuka, Vogel, Q\\ 



Vorth. Central. Baginni : Tjecna, Chevalier, 9558 1 



Srile Kand. Nubii: coast-land. Bent! Hor Tamanib, Lord! Wady O- 

 Mareg, Schweinfurth, 400! Ex-itrea : various localities, Schweinfurth <f- Riva, 317 ! 

 Schweinfurth, 189, 231, 317, 457, 932. Hildehrandt, 653! Abyssinia: various 

 localities, Sehimper, 116 ! 1221 ! British Somaliland, Miss Edith Cole ! Mrs. 

 Lort Fhillips ! Brockman ! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 79 ! 295 ! Kordofan, Ffund, 41 ! 

 388 ! Kotschy, 96 ! Jur : Dimo, Schweinfurth, 4291 ! Bongo : Matuoli, Schwein- 

 furth, 2025! Uganda: east side of Lake Albert Edwai-d, Scott-Mliot, 8060! 

 Chulima, Bagshawe^ 246! British East Africa: Kikuyu, Gregory ! between Mom- 

 tasa and Lamu, Whyte ! 



Aower Guinea. Annabon Island, J9ar<on / Lower Congo: Bingila, Dmjomi*. 

 Loango, Soyaux, 216 ! Angola : various localities, Welwitsch^ 6500 ! 6529 ! 6529b ! 

 6552! German South-west Africa: Amboland, Schinz, 4, Rautanen, 139; 

 Rehoboth, Schinz, 5, Fleck, 27a, 148 ; Dammaraland, Sen^ 75 ! 



Moxamb. Bist* Zanzibar, Hildehrandt, 1178 ! German East Africa : Muoa, 

 Hoist, 3128! Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; between Lupata and Tete, 

 Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; various localities, Buchanan. 1277! 

 Whyte ! McClounie, 28 ! Johnson, 22 ! Ngamiland : Kwebe, Lugard, 175 ! 



Also conamon in Madagascar and South-east Asia. 



2. P. atropurptireay Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 331. More 

 slender, more rambling than P. lappacea; leaves smaller, more acumi- 

 nated at either end ; inflorescences weaker, often 1-2 in. long ; perianth 

 often less copiously woolly. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 218 ; Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 404 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 723 ; Zarb in Cat. Spec. Bot. 

 Pfund, 33 ; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1 A, 108, and 93, 

 tig. 46, F, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173. Achyranthes lappacea^ Linn. Sp. 

 PI. ed. ii. 295, in small part. A. atropurpurea, Lam. Encycl. i. 546. 



STile Xiand. British East Africa : Lake Baringo, Johnston ! 



Moxamb. Blst. Pember Island, Bojer ! Gennim East Africa : mouth of 

 Rovuma River, Meller ! Umba River, Kaessner, 110! Portuguese East Africa : 

 Lower Zambesi, between Lupata and Tete, Kirk ! Lower valley of the River 

 Shire, Meller ! 



Also in British India. 



This species appears to me not distinctly separable from P. lappacea, Juss. 



Imperfectly known species, 



3. P. Robecchii, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrh. xxvii. 55. Stem woody, 

 12-15 in, high, with short internodes. Leaves opposite, 1 in. long, 

 ■ovate, tomentose, the tomentum peeling off. Inflorescence spicate, at 

 the base loose, above dense, of opposite clusters. Sterile bracts ending 

 in hooks. Filaments subulate, somewhat broader at the base. Ovary 



