716 CXVI. AMARANTACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Celosia. 
C. PATULA, Willd. in Act. Berol. vi. 198; Mog. l. c. (C. glauca, Rottl. 4 Willd. 
in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. iv. 1803).—Mountains of Madras. 
C. SANGUINEA, Hoffmann Verz. ii. 85; Mog. l. c.—East Indies. 
3. BOSIA, Linn. (Bosza.) 
Erect, stout, glabrous, nauseous shrubs. Leaves alternate, persistent. 
Flowers small, 2—4-bracteolate, green, spicate or racemose, often poly- 
gamous. Sepals 5, herbaceous, rounded, concave. Stamens 5, inserted on 
a hypogynous 10-lobed disk ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary ovoid; stigmas 2-3, 
sessile, recurved; ovule erect, funicle short. Berry globose. Seed sub- 
globose, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy; embryo annular, cotyledons 
broad.—Species 3, Canaries, Mediterranean, N.W. India. 
Bosea trinervia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 87, is no doubt, as Dr. King informs me, Celtis 
Wightii, Planch, 
B. Amherstiana, Hook. f.; leaves ovate acute or acuminate, 
flowers spicate, bracteoles 2-4. Rodetia Amherstiana, Mog. in DC. Prodr. 
xui 2, 323; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 302; Deeringia Amherstiana, Wall. 
Cat. 6889. 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft.; from Kumaon, Amherst, 
Govan, to Kashmir, Thomson. 
Quite glabrous. Leaves 3—7 by 1-4 in. ; base acute or rounded ; blade narrowed 
into a petiole 4-4 in. Spikes shorter than the leaves. Flowers à in. diam. ; bracts 
and bracteoles rounded, closely imbricated, green with white margins. Berries $n. 
diam,— Zodetia differs from the original Bosia Yerva-Mora only in the pedicelled 
flowers and fewer bracts and dicecious flowers, but the flowers are really only poly- 
gamous, and the Bosia cypria of Boissier (from Cyprus) has sessile flowers and bracts 
imbricating as in Rodetia. 
4. BANALIA, Mo. 
An erect, glabrous, branching herb. Leaves alternate, membranous. 
Flowers in axillary and terminal panicled spikes. Sepals 5, membranous, 
linear-oblong, acute, 3-nerved. Stamens 5, united below into a cup, anthers 
2-celled. Ovary ovoid, compressed; style erect, stigmas 2 linear; ovule 
erect. Utricle subglobose, indehiscent. Seed orbicular, testa black crus- 
taceous ; embryo annular. 
B. thyrsiflora, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 278; Wight Ic. t. 1774. 
Celosia thyrsiflora, and C. missionis, Wall. Cat. 6914, 6915 A. B. Achy- 
ranthes thyrsiflora & polygonata, Herb. Heyne. 
NircGmiRI Mrs., alt. 4-7000 ft. ; Heyne, &c. 
A tall very slender herb, branches angular. Leaves 3-4 in., ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers in large thyrsoid white panicles, sessile, ¢ in. long. 
5. ALLMANTIA, Br. 
Herbs. Leaves alternate, narrow. Flowers in axillary and terminal 
globose or ovoid heads. Sepals 5, scarious, acuminate, striate. Stamens 5, 
united below into a cup; anthers 2-celled; staminodes 0. Ovary ovoid; 
style slender, stigma capitellate; ovule 1, erect. Utricle circumsciss. „See 
erect, aril cupular, testa crustaceous; embryo annular, cotyledons linear 
flat.—Species 2 or 3, tropical Asiatic. 
l. A. nodiflora, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6890, excl. B ; annual, diffusely 
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