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Allmania. | CXVI. AMARANTACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 717 
dichotomously branched, leaves short or long from linear or oblong to 
spathulate and orbicular, heads sessile axillary and terminal globose. 
SIKKIM TERAI, Clarke. Mysore and the Carnatic, MALACCA, SINGAPORE and 
CEYLON.—DisTRIB. China, Malay Islands. 
Rootstock sometimes woody; branches rigid or flaccid, 6-12 in., glabrous or 
hispidly hairy. Leaves excessively variable, membranous or rigid. Heads 4-1 in. 
diam., white or brown. Seeds turgidly lenticular, opaque or shining.-—The following 
forms are certainly varieties of no great constancy. 
VaR. angustifolia ; glabrous, rarely with a few scattered hairs, often tall, leaves 
1-3 in. oblong or linear-oblong or elongate obovate-oblong obtuse or acute, heads 
usually large. A. nodiflora, Wall. Cat. 6980 A. C. E in part. Chamissoa angusti- 
folia, Herb. Ham. C. javanica, Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 434. —Mysore, Ceylon, widely 
diffused. Java, Sumatra.—A tall slender unbranched form of this occurs, apparently 
drawn up amongst grass, &c. 
Var. dichotoma; glabrous or nearly so, leaves shortly petioled 3-14 in. elliptic 
acute, heads i-i in. A. nodiflora, Wall. Cat. 6890 E. in part. A. dichotoma, 
Wight Ie. t. 1771. Celosia dichotoma, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 172.—Courtallum, 
Wight. 
Var. Roxburghii ; glabrous or pubescent, leaves 1-2 in. spathulate or orbicular- 
spathulate often apiculate. A. nodiflora, Wight in Hook. Journ. Bot. i. (1834), 226, 
t. 128; Wall. Cat. 6890 E in part. Achyranthes nodiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 678. 
Celosia nodiflora, Linn. Sp. PL. 205; Roth Nov. Sp. 17; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. 16, t. 5,f. 2. 
—Mysore, the Carnatic and Ceylon. . n 
VAR. aspera; hispidly hairy, other characters of Var. angustifolia. A. aspera, 
Wight Te. t. 1770.  Celosia aspera, Roth Nov. Sp. 173; Mog. l. c. 244. Chamissoa 
dichotoma, Moq. l. c. 249. —Corn-fields, Coimbatore and Mysore. 
Van. procumbens ; diffuse, branches prostrate often several feet long from a slender 
or stout (perennial ?) woody branched stock, glabrous or scabrid, leaves small j-3 in. 
spathulate or linear mucronate, heads small j-3 in. Wall. Cat. 6980 E in part. 
A. procumbens, Wight mss. A. nodiflora, Wight Ic. t. 1770.— Sands and Red Hills 
at Madras.— DrsTRIB. Java. . 
Var. esculenta; flaccid, glabrous, leaves 1-2 in. very narrow linear, heads usually 
small sometimes pedicelled. A. esculenta, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6892 ; Mog. l.c. 249. 
Chamissoa Brownii, Steudel Nomencl. Ecl. i. 344,—Malacca and Singapore. 
2. A. albida, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6981; annual, erect or suberect, 
leaves short or long from linear to spathulate or obcordate, heads ovoid or 
oblong rarely globose peduncled. Chamissoa albida, Mart. Beitr. Amarant. 
79; Wight Te. t. 1769. C. pyramidalis, Mog. l. c. , Celosia pyramidalis, 
Burm. Fa. Ind. 65, t. 25. C. albida, Willd. Sp. PL i. 1197. C. nodiflora, 
Wall. Cat. 6890 B. 
The Carnatic; in sandy soil near the coast, Wight, &c. CEYLON, common.— 
Java, Philippines. . . . 
Usually tali, erect, 1-2 ft. high, with erect branches, and foliage simulating many 
of the forms of A. nodiflora, of which Thwaites regards itas a form, but I can scarcely 
agree with him. 
6. DIGERA, Forsk. 
i he 2 outer 
Anannualherb. Leaves alternate. Flowers spicate, 3-nate, t = ou 
relat to crested scales. Sepals 4-5, oblong, outer larger r5 nery ed, 
inner 2—4-nerved. Stamens 5, free; anthers 2-celled ; ataminodes " Nil 
oblong, truncate; style filiform, stigmas 2 recurved; ovule " yen nd 
subglobose, compressed, rugulose. Seed globose, erect, 1 . linea r 
taceous, adhering to the albumen ; embryo annular, cotyledons . 
D. arvensis, Forsk. Fl. Æg. Arab. 65; Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 
