70 cvi. AMARANTACE^ (baker AND CLARKE). [Pandiaka. 



9. p. andongensisy Jlieo-n in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 895. A 

 hirsute erect hexb, 20 in. high. Leaves opposite, sessile, 2 in. long, 

 oblong-elliptic, base obscurely auricled. Spikes IJ by ^ in., white; 

 bracteoles about | the length of the perianth, elliptic, acuminate, sub- 

 mucronate, hairy. Perianth ^ in, long ; segments oblong-linear, with. 

 many white hairs on the back, glabrate at the points. Staminodes 

 quadrate. Ovary glabrous. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welivitsch, 6o67 \ 



10. p. oblanceolata, C. B. CI. An erect sparsely hairy herb. 

 Leaves opposite, sessile, 1| by \-\ in., oblong, widening upwards. 

 Spikes 2 by | in., very pale brown ; bracteoles J in. long, bristle- 

 pointed. Perianth J in. long; segments oblong, ending in a bristle^ 

 with some minute hairs on the back or glabrate. Staminodes quadrate, 

 lacerate. Ovary glabrous. — Achyranthes ohlanceolata, Schinz in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxi. 187.- 



wile I.and. Bongo: kM&\, Schweinfurih, 2\^b\ 



This is \r\o\ei\ivoxn Achyranthes to Pandiaka, (1) because the leaves are sessile; 

 (2) because the fruiting i)eiianth, though slightly deHexed, is not reflexed close to 

 the rhachis; (3) because the fruiting spikes are hardly interrupted at the base. 



11. P. Carsoni, C B. CI. A sparsely hairy herb ; branches erect, 

 18 in. long. Leaves opposite, sessile, 2 by \ in., oblong, often slightly 

 widened upwards. Spikes 2 J by J in., cylindnc, dense, white ; bracteoles 

 about half as long as the perianth, ovate, minutely mucronate. Perianth 

 \ in. long ; vsegments oblong, subacute, muticous, glabrous. Staminodes 

 shortly quadrate, fimbriate. Ovary obovoid, glabrous. — Achyranthes 

 Carsoni, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 280. Aryyrostachys splendensj 

 Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xx<x. 109, iig. 2, in Malpighia, xiv. 43G. 



Mozamb. Dlst. Fwambo, in Urungu, south of Lake Tanganyika, Carson, 

 8! 50! 



Imperfectly known species. 



12. P.? heterochiton, C. B. CI. Stem 16 in. high, erect, branched. 



Leaves decussate, 1-1^ in. long, linear. Spikes terminal, short, few- 

 flowered, composed of solitary flowers ; bract spinescent ; bracteoles 

 hairy, acute. Perianth -segments ovate, acute, silky hairy above. 

 Staminodes short. Ovary densely hairy; style linear ; stigma capitate. 

 — Sericocoma heterochiton, Lopr. in Malpighia, xiv. 441. 



Xiower Guinea, German South-west Africa: Damaraland; Otyimbingue 

 Fischer, 193. 



As the tlowers are all solitary, with one bract and two bracteoles eacli, it cannot 

 be of the genus Sericocoma. 



19. SERICOSTACHYS, Gilg et Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 50. 



Cluster consisting of 1 perfect flower and 2 or 3 very hairy rudi- 

 ments (sterile flowers) ; bract 1 ; bracteoles 2, short, ovate. Perianth- 



