58 cvi. AMARANTACE^ (baker AND clarke). [Feilotrichum. 



Leaves linear or linear-oblong. 



Leaves ^ in. broad ; flowers green . . 5. P. Schimperi. 



Leaves fV in. broad; flowers white, pinkish 

 or brown. 

 Spikes cylindric, rather dense . . . Q. P. gracilentum. 



Spikes cylindric, very dense . . . 1. P. confertum. 



♦♦PsiLOSTACHYS. Inflorescence of lax spikes in 

 thin panicles with capillary branches. 

 Main branches ending in a nearly leafless 

 panicle. 

 Panicle branches trichotonious ; perianth 



hairy . , . . . . . 10. P. cordatum. 



Panicle branches racemosely branched; peri- 

 anth glabrous . . . . . 11. P. Kirkii. 

 Main branches ending in a tuft of leaves; 

 panicles axillary. 

 Stem glabrate ; perianth hispid . . . 12. P. axillare. 

 Stem hairy; perianth glabrous . . . 13. P. edule. 



1. P. africanum, Oliver in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1542. A small much- 

 branched shrub ; branches woody, glabrate. Leaves 1-2 in. long, elliptic 

 or ovate, narrowed at either end, when mature puberulous or obscurely 

 pubescent ; petiole ^if-\ in. long. Spikes § by J in. (or shorter), 8-20- 

 flowered, white, very short-peduncled ; rhachis hairy, terminal and 

 axillary. Perianth-segments \ in. long, minutely hairy. — Oliver in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 348 ; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iii. lA, 111 and 112, fig. 65, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173. 



Wile ]Land. British East Africa: Ribe, near Mombasa, WaJcefield ! Siani, 

 800 ft., Kaessner, 340 ! 



Mozamb. I>lBt. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., Johnston ! 

 Tanga, Volkens, 178! Hoist, 21191 Portuguese East Alrica: Lower Zambesi; 

 between Lupata and Tete, Kirk ! opposite Sena, Kirk ! 



2. P. concinnum, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 279. Stem stout, 

 woody; branches 16 in. long, slender, hairy, with slender secondary 

 bi-anches ending in spikes. Leaves 1 in. long; petioles y<j in. long. 

 Ovary granular-subtubercular at the top ; otherwise as P. africanum^ 

 Oliver. — P. africanum, var. debilis, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 185. 



Mozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa: Xyasaland ; Blantyre, Last ! 



3. P. trichophyllum, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 279. Branch 

 a foot long. Leaves 2 by J in., shortly copiously hairy on both surfaces ; 

 otherwise as P. cmicinnum. Baker. 



XkKozaxnb. Bist. Portuguese East Africa: at Shamo, near the moutli of the 

 River Sliire. Kirk ! 



4. P. EUiottii, Baker. Leaves 1 by J in., ovate, rounded at the 

 base, subsessile ; otherwise as P. concinnum or P. trichophvllu/n . 



wrile Xiand. Uganda: cast side of Lake Albert Edward, Scott-Elliot, 8062! 



