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Hab. Jamaica!, March, Wils. ; S.Vincent!, Guild. ; Trinidad !, Cr. ; [Nubia !, Niger ! ; 

 East Indies !; Mexico !, Ecuador !; Canary Islands !, Algeria !, Spain !, Sicily !; Cape of Good 

 Hope!]. 



4. CYATHULA, Lour. 



Flowers clustered, central fertile, encircled by (2-) 4 or more abortive ones, wbich are 

 partly reduced to glochides. Fertile flower like that of Achyranthes. — Leaves opposite; 

 flower-clusters arranged usually in elongated spikes. 



5. C. pro strata, Bl. Perennial, suffrutescent, downy or glabrescent; leaves ovate, 

 pointed; spikes axillary and terminal, often ternate : flower-clusters at length recurved ; sepals 

 hairy, trinerved, twice as long as the bracts ; glochides 3-20, at length exceeding the flower, 

 yellowish. — Wight, Ic. t. 733. — C. achyranthoides, Moq. Achyranthes, L. Desmoehata, 

 DC. Pupalia, R. Br. — Habit of the preceding : leaves tapering at the base into a short pe- 

 tiole ; flowers pale, l'"-2'" long. — The characters of C. achyranthoides, Moq., are of no 

 value, and not even sufficient for distinguishing a special variety, Bentham having proved 

 that in the same spike the sterile flowers occur in different degrees of abortion (Niger Fl. p. 

 493); the variable number of glochides is a mere consequence of this fact ; the length of the 

 same organs (which Moquin in C. prostrata states as equalling, and in C.> achyranthoides as 

 exceeding, the calyx) depends upon their state of development ; and the lateral bracts of the 

 fertile flower are often in the same specimen either acuminate or terminated with a spinescent 

 and sometimes uncinate midrib. — Hab. Jamaica !, Al., March ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Tri- 

 nidad!, Schach, Cr.; [Guiana!, Brazil!, New Granada!; Pacific Islands!; East Indies!; tro- 

 pical Africa, and Canary Islands]. 



Tkibe II. G0MPHRENE2E. — Stamens monadelphous : anthers unilocular. 

 Ovary unilocular. — Leaves opposite. 



5. FRCELICHIA, Mch. 



Calyx 5 -dentate: tube cylindrical, externally woolly, at length cristate with 5 (-2) longi- 

 tudinal crests. Stamens 5, wholly connate : tube elongated, 5-dentate ; anthers oblong, ses- 

 sile between its protruding teeth. Stigma capitate (or penicillate). Pericarp utricular. — An- 

 nual, downy herbs; superior internodes elongated; leaves subsessile ; flowers arranged in 

 short compound spikes, of which the lower ones are distant ; bracts glabrous, coloured. 



6. P. interrupta, Moq. ! Leaves elliptical or lanceolate, villous beneath ; spikes ovate 

 or ovate-oblong, tapering at the top, lateral ones sessile ; calyx exceeding the bracts : crests 

 5, dentate, covered with wool ; style distinct : stigma capitate. — Lam. III. t. 180. f. 2 ; and 

 L'Her. Stirj). t. 3 : the broad-leaved form; Jacq. Ic. Bar. £.51 and Hook. Ic. t. 256 : the 

 narrow-leaved form. — Gomphrena, L. : the former ; T. floridana, Moq. .- the latter. Both 

 forms occur in Jamaica, and are not to be distinguished. — Stem 1-3' high ; upper internodes 

 much exceeding the leaves ; inflorescence terminal, constituted of a larger terminal, and 

 several pairs of opposite lateral spikes ; flowers purple, but enveloped within the silky cotton- 

 like wool of the calyx. — HabjkAI., March, in the dry, sandy fields of the south, e.g. near 

 Kingston ; [Mexico !, Texasj/Florida !]. 



( } 6. GOMPHRENA, L., R. Br. 

 (Gomphrena, sect. Wadapus, Moq.) 



Sepals 5. Stamens 5, wholly connate: anthers oblong, alternating with and inserted be- 

 tween the protruding bipartite teeth, which terminate the elongated tube. Stigmas 2, 

 linear. Pericarp utricular. — Flowers capitate, forming usually globose heads, at length 

 enveloped by wool. 



7*. G. globosa, L. Annual, erect; leaves lanceolate-oblong; flower-heads globose, 

 diphyllous at the base, usually solitary ; lateral bracts keeled with a serrate wing, exceeding 

 the woolly calvx ; sepals uninerved. — Besc. Fl. 5. t. 320. — A pubescent but green herb; 

 flowers 4'"-5"f loug, usually purple. — Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica (Br.) ; [introduced from 

 the East Indies]. 



