714 CXVI. AMARANTACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Deeringia. 
TaisE III. Gomphreneæ. Anthers l-celled. Ovary l-ovuled ; ovule 
suspended from a basal funicle. Leaves opposite. 
Staminal tube very short. Stigma subsessile, capitate . . . 16. ALTERNANTHERA. 
Staminal tube long. Style long. Stigma2-fid . . . . . 17. GOMPHRENA. 
1. DEERINGIA, Br. 
Rambling or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled. Flowers 
small, in simple or panicled spikes, 1-2-sexual. Sepals 5, oblong, spreading 
in fruit. Stamens 4-5; anthers 2-celled; staminodes 0. Ovary ovoid or 
subglobose ; stigmas 2-4, subulate; ovules few or many, funicle long. Fruit 
a globose berry or circumsciss utricle, seated on the spreading perianth. 
Seeds few or many ; radicle descending.—Species 5-6, Asiatic, Australian 
and Pacific. 
D. celosioides, Br. Prodr. 413; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate 
acuminate, racemes long panicled. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 682, and Ed. Wall. § 
Carey, ii.511; Wight Ic. t. 728; Wall. Cat. 6888; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fl. 214; Bot. Mag. t. 2717; Endl. Iconogr. t. 62. D. baccata, Mog. n 
DC. Prodr. xiii. 236. D. indica, Retz. in Blume Bijd. 542 ; Spreng. Syst. 
i. 816. Celosia baccata, Retz. Obs. v. 23. Cladostachys frutescens, Don 
Prodr. 76, excl. syn.—Blitum frutescens, Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 83, 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Simla to Bhotam, alt. 1-5000 ft. Assam, SILHET, 
KnasrA Mrs., alt. 0-4000 ft. CHITTAGONG and LowER BENGAL; at Pubna, J. D. H. 
d T. T. BEHAR; Monghir, Hamilton; and Rotas, J. D. H. Peau, Wallich. The 
Concan, Dalz. & Gibs. (I have seen no specimen).—DisTR1B. Malay Islands, China, 
ustralia. 
Blackish or dark green when dry, subscandent, sometimes climbing 18 ft. high ; 
branches long, arching. Leaves 2—4 in., base rounded or acute, rarely cordate ; petiole 
i-lin. Spikes 4-lO in. Flowers greenish-white, 4 in. diam.; pedicels short; bracts 
acute. Berry globose, j-1 in. diam., scarlet. 
2, CELOSIA, Linn. 
Usually annual herbs. Leaves alternate. Flowers clustered or spicate, 
white or pink, shining. Sepals scarious, striate or ribbed. Stamens 5 
united below into a cup; anthers 2-celled; staminodes 0. Utricle cir- 
cumsciss, sometimes corky or thickened. Seeds erect, testa crustaceous, 
radicle inferior or ascending.—Species 30, tropical Asiatic, African and 
American. 
.* Spikes very stout; flowers densely imbricate. Utricle acute ; style 
filiform, lengthening after flowering. 
1. C. argentea, Linn. ; annual, glabrous, erect, leaves linear or lanceo- 
late, spikes long-peduncled cylindric or oblong or ovoid, flowers $4 m., 
style filiform. Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 242; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 678, and 
Ed. Carey § Wall. i. 507; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 167 ; Dalz. 4 Gibs. Bom). 
Fl. 215; Wight Ie. t. 1767; Wall. Cat. 6916; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 987. 
C. linearis, Sweet Hort. Brit. 569. C. margaritacea, L., Wall. Cat. 6917 ; 
Don Prodr. 76.—Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 38, 39. 
Throughout IxpIA and CEYLON in fields, ascending the hills to 4000 ft. (nowhere 
really indigenous).— DrsrRIB. Trop. Asia, Africa, America, cultivated or introduced. 
