74 cvi. AMARANTACE.« (baker AND CLARKE). [Altenianthera , 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, i?o/7er, 15! Sierra Leone: near Musaia (Mussia) 

 Scoit-Elliot, 5103! Saniu Country, Scott-Elliot, 4204! Gold Coast: Aburi,. 

 Broivn,^HS\ Aahnnti, Bo icdick ! Southern Nigeria : Sawewe, Daiyorfw, 20 ! banks 

 of the Niger, Barter, 126 ! 872 ! Canieroons : Efulen, Bates, 191 ! 384 ! Yaunde, 

 2700 ft., Zenker Sf Staudt, 298 ! Fernando Po, Vogel, 204 ! 



Wile Iiand. Abyssinia : Begemedev, Schimper, 1341 ! White Nile, Petherick / 

 Sagiuli, Schtveinfnrtli, 521! Sennar, Kotsrliy, 469! Jur; by the Wau River, 

 Sclnveinfurth, 1647 ! liritish East Africa: Lake Losuguta, Gregory ! 



Ziower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Don I Princes Island, Welivitsch, 

 6539 I 6542 ! Loango, Soyaux, 129 ! Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, Hens, B, 16 ! 

 near the mouth of tlie Congo, Smithy 31 ! 37! Angola, banks of river?: Barra do 

 Dande, Welwit.sr/i, 6533 ! loolo e Hengo, Welwitsch, 6531, 6532 ! Golungo Alto, 

 Welwitsch, 6549, 6561 ! Libongo, Welwitsch, 6555 ! 



Mozamb. I>lst. German East Africa : Aniboni, Hoist, 2760 ! Portuguese East 

 Africa: Lowtr Z-nnibesi ; Shupanga, A'rrA- .' British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; 

 Nsessi River, Scott ! Mandala, Scott-Elliot, 8561 ! Nyika Plateau, McClounie ! 



Also a weed in South Asia and Australia. This species is not distinguished by 

 Hiern from A. nodijlora. 



3. A. echinata. Smith in Kees, Encycl. SuppL n. 10. Stems pro- 

 cumbent, 1-2 ft. long, branched, hairy. Leaves J-li in. long, obovate- 

 spathulate, shortly petioled. Spikes J in. long, ovoid or ellipsoid, very 

 pale brown. Perianth-segments ^ in. long, lanceolate, mucronate, 

 almost prickly in fruit, gjabious, but near the base of 3 of them is a 

 dense tuft of small white hairs linear with glochidiate tip. Otherwise 

 as A. iiodifora. — Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 3^50; Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Wehv. i. 89H. A. AcJu/rantha, R. Br. Prodr. 417 in obs. ; 

 Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 358; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 7. A. 

 repens, Schinz in Engl, tt Prantl, Pllanzenfam. iii. lA, 115, in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. (i(i ; Durand A: Schinz, Etudes El. Congo, 

 i. 235 ; Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch. Exped. 287. Achyranthes rej^enSf 

 Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 205. Illecehrum Achyrantha, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. 

 21)1>. /. obliqumii, Schumach. Benkr. Guin. PI. 1-42. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Cape Coast Castle, Voyel, 37 ! Aburi, Brown, 

 410! Togo: near Lome, ^\'arnecke, 2191 Southern Nigeria : between Ibadan and 

 Abeokuta, Schlec?iter, 13033 ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 852 ! 1708 ! 



ZiO\irer Guinea. Princes Lie, Welwitsch, 6541 ! Lower Congo: near the 

 moutli, Smith ! Lutele, Hens, A, 300 ! Angola : Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6556 ! 

 Loanda, BWwiVw//., 6536 1 6536b! Gossiceiler, ^l4-\ German South-west Africa : 

 Damarahuid ; Okahandya, Lindner ! Hererolaud, Marloth, 1345 1 



2-d. PHILOXERUS, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 40. 



Perfect flowers with two bracteoles. Perianth thickened at the 

 base ; segments 5, oblong. Eilaments 5, lanceolate at the ba.<e, united 

 into a short cup, without staminodes ; anthers 1 -celled. Ovary ovoid ; 

 style hardly any, branches 2, linear; ovule 1, from a basal funicle. 

 Utricle ovoid, compressed; seed lenticular; embryo curled. — Leaves 

 opposite. Spikes dense, ovoid or oblong, terminal, straw-coloured, 

 solitary or clustered. 



Speeies 10. on the sea-coasts of America, Africa and Australia. 



