Pandiaka.] cvi. AMARANTACEiE (baker and clarke). 69 



A. angustifolia^ Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 492 ; Schinz in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Piaanzenfam. iii. lA, 113, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 174; 

 Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 284. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Makunde, Scott-Elliot, 5699 ! Gold 

 Coast : Accra, Broton, 390 ! Togo, WarnecJce, 182 ! Quorra (Niger) River, Focfel, 

 98 ! Nortliern Nigeria : Nujie, Barter, 1724 ! French Congo : Upper Ubangi River, 

 at Fort Sibut, Chevalier, 5677 ! 



KTlle ]Lancl. Jur : Seriba Ghattas, Schioeinfurth, 2309 1 



Jtovrer Culnea. Lower Congo : Goma, Hens, A, 360 ! Stanley Pool, 

 Demeuse. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; in Pedras de Gninga, Welwitsch^ 6565 ! at 

 Cadumba, on the River Quanza, Wehoitsch, 6568 ! 6588b I 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Lunda ; Mukenge, Pogge, 226. 



Mozamb. Blst. Likoma Islands, in Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 15 ! 



6. P. Welwitschii, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 894. A hairy 

 erect herb, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves opposite, subsessile, 1 J in. long, obovate, 

 rounded at the top. Spikes 1 J by ^ in., straw-coloured ; bracteoles about 

 I the length of the perianth, ovate, acuminate, subspinescent. Perianth 

 J in. long ; segments elliptic-oblong, suddenly shortly acuminate, sub- 

 spinescent, with many long white hairs on the back. Staminodes quad- 

 rate, slightly toothed at the top. Ovary obtusely obovate at the top. — 

 Achyranthes Wchvitschii, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 187, in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 174. 



ILower Guinea. Angola : Hnilla ; at Lopollo, Welwitsch, 6488 I 6491 ! 



Wehvitsch ()-A87 (not cited by Hiern) is a proliferous form of the same species, 

 each flower being represented by a spike of bracts an inch long. A similar mon- 

 strosity occurs in Acfigranthes aspera. 



7. P. debilis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 894. The example 

 is 30 in. long, weak, hairy, rooting at the lower nodes with long branches. 

 Leaves opposite, hardly petioled, 1-1 J in. long, obovate, rounded at the 

 top. Spikes 1-1 i by \ in., white ; bracteoles about § the length of the 

 perianth, elliptic, shortly acute, mucronate, hairy. Perianth I- J in. 

 long ; segments oblong, shortly acute, submucronate, with much straight 

 white hair on the back. Staminodes quadrate, with long hairs at the top. 

 Ovary obtusely obovoid at the top. — Psilotrichum debile, Baker in Kew 

 Bulletin, 1897, 279. 



Xiow^er Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo j in Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 

 6570! 



8. P. Sch'weinfurthii, C.B. CI. Leaves sessile, broadly elliptic or 

 oblanceolate, acute, mucronate, thinly hairy, yellow-green. Inflores- 

 cence terminal ; bracts acuminate, hairy. Perianth-segments lanceolate, 

 acute, thickened at the base, hairy. Staminodes long fimbriate. Ovary 

 glabrous. — Achyranthes Schweinfurthii, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 iv. 421. 



»rile :Land. I)ar Fertit ; Schioeinfurth, iii. 66 ! 



Schinz doubts whether this is more tlian a geographical variety of P. Welivitschii ; 

 it is of a different colour, and the perianth is slightly longer. The only definite 

 difference is the very long fimbria} to the staminodes. 



