€4 cvi. AMARANTACE^ (baker AND clarke). [Ackyrautkes. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 7000-8000 ft., Mann^ 

 1307 ! 1977 ! Johnston, 9-i ! 



Wile Xiand. Kordofan, Kotschy, 148 ! Abyssinia : Begemeder, Schlmper, 

 188! Amba Sea, Schimper, 249! Mount Sholoda, Schimper, ll-ii, I Uganda, 

 Wilson, 103 ! British Kast Africa: Kapte Plateau, 5000 ft., Thomson/ 



laO-wer Guinea. Lower Congo, Burton! Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 

 €547 ! 6552 ! 6552b ! 6573 ! 6574 ! 6579 ! 



Var. y pinguispicata, C. B. CI. Axis of the inflorescence mucli thicker ; })erianth 

 larger than usual; leaves thicker. — A. aspera, Kolfe in Gates, Matabelelaiul, ed. ii. 

 408; Warburg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 433. 



Xtower Guinea. Angola: near the Kunene River, between Kiteve and 

 Hum be, Banm, 961 ! 



XHozamb. Dlst. Matabelelaiul, Gates I 



2. A. bidentata, Bl. Bijdr. 54:5. Leaves large ; blade attaining 

 1) by 3i in., drying a black green. Perianth shining, dried a black green, 

 .spreading in young fruit ; otherwise as A.a^pera, Linn. — Mocjuin in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. ii. iU2 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 780 ; Schinz in Engl, cfe 

 Prantl, PHanzenfam. iii. lA, 112; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 894. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: .Johan-Albrechtshohe, Staudt,Z4:Q\ Fernando 



Po, Mann ! 



]Lower Guinea. Antrola: (iolungo Alto; in the forest on (jueta Mountains, 

 above Ndelle, Wehcitsch, 654-11 



Mozamb. Dlst. liritish Central Africa: Nyasalaiul ; Mount Chimdzulu, 

 4000 ft., Whyte .' 



The autliors who admit this as a species diagnose it by the bitid small base to 

 the bracteoles, whence the spine springs. 1 cannot sort the ])resent ]>lant by that 

 character. 



3. A. aquatica, R. Br. Prodr. 417. A stout, sparsely hairy herb, 

 2-4 ft. high, rooting from the lower nodes; the roots elongate, often 

 in water. Leaves opposite, petioled ; the blade o-4 in. long, ovate or 

 lanceolate, acute ; ba.se shortly narrowed on the petiole. Spikes 3 by 

 I in., rhachis hairy ; bracteoles hardly ^ the length of the perianth', 

 ovate, pointed. Perianth J in. long, glabrous, straw-colour; segments 

 lanceolate, striate, muticous. 8taminodes long quadrate, sparingly 

 fimbriate at the top. Ovary glabrous. Nut large, very little flattened. — 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 730; Schinz in Engl, it Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 

 lA, 112; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 208; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 XXX. 13, t. 1, fig. K, L, M. Centrostachys aquatica, Moc[uin in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. ii. 321 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 493. C. dabelliyera, 

 Fenzl ex Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ^\. 321. 



wile Ztand. Nubia, Kotschy, 198 ! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 32 ! Abyssinia : 

 Kegemeder ; in a swamj) by the River Keb, 5700 ft., Schimper, 1376 ! White Nile 

 Schweinfurih, 985 ! 



Also in India. 



4. A. lanuginosa, Schinz in Engl. Jahrh. xxi. 180. A thinly 

 hairy herb ; branches a foot long. Leaves opposite, petiolate ; blade 



