544 



Ill—Pal. de Beauv. Fl. Oware, Benin, ii. t. 99, f. 1 {A 



ficoides) ; Engl. & Prantl, Pflan. iii. part 1a, f. 48 H (^. sessilis). 



Veniac. names. — Mai-Kaindubu (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Sawewe- 



(Lagos, Thom2)son, Daivodu). 



Widely distributed in Tropical Africa, and also in Soutb 



Asia and Australia. 



Whole plant included in " Agbo," Lagos [see p. 50] (Dawodu^ 



No. 20, Herb. Kew). 



1-3 ft., rooting at tbe lower nodes, Aburi (Bro\ra, Herb,. 

 Kew) ; sometimes rootstock woody (Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e.) ; commora 

 on sandbanks. Kworra fBarter. Herb. Kcwb 



GoMPHRENA, Linn. 

 Gomphrena globosa, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 75.. 



/?7.— Rheede, Hort. ^lal. x. t. 37 ; Commelin, Hort. Aled, 

 Amstel. PI. i. t. 45 {Amarantho affinis &c) ; Kumpf, Amb. v. 

 t. 100, f . 2 ; Gaertner, "Fruct. Sem. PI. ii. t. 128 ; Desc. Ant. v, 

 t. 320; Bot. Mag. t. 2815; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. v. t. 1784 f 

 Transv. Agric. Journ. v. July 1907, t. 189; Engl. & Prantl,. 

 Pflan. iii. part 1a, f. 46. c. 



Vernac. names. — Bachelors' Buttons (Jamaica, Faiccett & 

 Rendle). — Annual Globe Amaranth. 



Oloke Meji (Dodd, No. 436, Herb. Kew) ; Old Calabar and 

 Cross River (Holland Nos. 121 & 251 Herb. Kew), Brass River 

 (Barter, No. 116, Herb. Kew) in Nigeria; Uganda and other 

 parts of the Old World. A native of South America 



An annual, 3 ft. high. Extensively cultivated as an orna- 

 mental plant (Bot. Mag. I.e.). Cultivated in garden at Oloke- 

 Meji (Dodd, I.e.). Introduced to Dahomey, grown in gardens 

 of Europeans, regarded as fetish by the natives (Chevalier, Bull, 

 Soc. Nat. d'Accl. do France, 1912, p. 242), 



CHENOPODIACEAE. 



Chexopodiitm^ Linn. 



Chenopodium ambrosioides, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. I, 



p. 79. 



III. — Plenck, Ic. t. 168; Desc. Ant. i. t. 58; Nees von Esen 

 beck, Plant. Medic. Diisseld. t. 122; Wagner, Pharm. Med, 

 Bot. t. 130; Guimpel, Abbild. Beschr. t. 269; Hayne, Darst, 

 Beschr. Gewachse, xiii. t. 15; Wight, Ic, PI. Ind, Or, v, t. 1786;; 

 Berg & Schmidt, Darst. & Beschr. Pharm. i. t. 2C; Bett- 

 freund, Fl, Argent, iii. t. 147 ; Engl. & Prantl, Pflan. iii. part lA^ 



i. 25 K-Q; Henkel, U.S.Dept. Agric. Farmer's Bull. No. 188 

 1904, p. 41, 



T 



Vernac. warned.— Ma-nturisi (Oloke Meji, Dodd); Paico 

 (Argentine, Bettfreund ; Chile, Mus. Kew); Ambrosie, ou th6- 

 du Mexique (Antilles, Descourtilez) ; Herva formigueira, Herva de- 



