Celosia. | CVI. AMARANTACE® (BAKER AND CLARKE), ‘4 
even microscopically tubercular.—Annuals or undershrubs, erect or 
rambling ; young parts and inflorescence usually minutely and sparingly 
hairy. Leaves alternate, petioled, mostly ovate-lanceolate, entire or 
(in C. pandurata) lobed. Cymes or flower-clusters, usually forming a 
leafless very narrow panicle or pseudospike, axillary or terminal or 
panicled. 
Species 40, in the warmer parts of the world. 
The bract and bracteoles are pointed when the perianth-segments are pointed ; 
and obtuse when the perianth-segments are rounded. The seeds in all the species 
have similar cells on the surface arranged in a similar semi-annular way; they are 
more or less conspicuous as the seeds were more or less ripened, and as the examples 
were more or less gradually dried. 
*LESTIBUDESIA. Style 3-fid. 
Perianth 4 in. long. Spikes dense, continuous. 1. C. argentea. 
Perianth much less than $ in. long. 
Style at least 4 the length of the young 
capsule. 
Leaves spathulate, elliptic-lanceolate 2. C. laxa. 
Leaves narrowly oblong . 3. C. cuneifolia. 
Style hardly any 4. C. trigyna. 
**EU-CELosIA. Style 2-fid. 
tCapsule  several-seeded; 1-seeded capsules 
very rare. 
Style distinct, with rather long ascending 
branches. 
Panicles reduced to rather dense pseudo- 
spikes, 
Leaves pandurate, lower sub-3-lobed. 5. C. pandurata. 
Leaves entire, ovate. 
Capsule } in. long. : : . 6. C. loandensis. 
Capsule + in. long. : : . %. C. macrocarpa, 
Spikes axillary, slender, linear, interrupted 8, C. stuhlmanniana. 
Style very short or obsolete. 
Flowers small ; perianth 7, in. long. Cap- 
sule longer than the perianth. 
Capsule narrowed at the top; style 
visible . : A : a . 9. C. schweinfurthiana. 
Capsule clavate at the top; stigmas 
alone visible ; ° . 10. C. acroprosodes. 
Flowers very small; perianth ~.-;y in. 
long. Capsule included in the peri- 
anth. 
Leaves 2-4 in. long; inflorescence 
white . , . . 11. C. staticodes. 
Leaves 2in, long; inflorescence pale 
brown . , ° . ; . 12. C. leptostachya. 
Leaves less than 1 in. long; inflores- 
cence white . : : : - 13. C. minutiflora. 
+4+Capsule 1-seeded. 
Leaves hardly } in. long . . . 14, C. nana. 
Leaves 2-3 in. long . : ; . 15. C. populifolia. 
1. C. argentea, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 205, ed. 2,296. A glabrescent 
branched annual, 1-4 ft. high. Leaves alternate, variable in size and 
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