Cyathula. | CXVI. AMARANTACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 723 
solitary peduncled bracteate or not. Wight Ic. t. 1782. Polyscelis capitata, 
Wall. Cat. 6940. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Dalhousie to Sikkim, alt. 6-9000 ft. 
More herbaceous and slender than C. tomentosa. Leaves 2-5 in., membranous ; 
petiole 1-1 in. Heads 1-1} in diam., white, glistening ; flowers as in C. tomentosa. 
3. C. ceylanica, Hook. f.; erect, tomentose, leaves subsessile elliptic 
subacute, heads globose solitary. C. capitata, Thwaites Enum. 249. 
CEYLON; near Kandy, Thwaites. 
Branches slender, terete. Leaves 1}-2 in., pubescent above, tomentose beneath. 
Heads 1 in. diam. Sepals villous.—The specimens are very indifferent. The leaves 
resemble those of the African C. globulifera, Moq., but the branches are more slender 
and the leaves almost sessile. 
** Clusters of flowers small, solitary, spicate, reflexed. 
4. C. prostrata, Blume Bijd. 549; annual, stem creeping below, 
branches erect or ascending, leaves subsessile elliptic rhomboid-oblong or 
subpanduriform obtuse, spikes very slender terminal peduncled. Mog, in 
DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 326; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 219. C. repens, Moq. 
l. c. 330. Achyranthes prostrata, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 674, and Ed. 
Carey & Wall., ii. 501; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 168. A. repens, Heyne in 
Roth Nov. Sp. 167. A. debilis, Poir. Dict. Suppl. i. 2, 10. Desmocheta 
prostrata & micrantha, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 1813, 102. D. prostrata, 
Wight Ic. t. 733. D. patula? Wall. Cat. 6937. D. repens, Roem. & Sch. 
Syst. v. 552; Wall. Cat. 6938. Pupalia prostrata, Mart. Beitr. Amarant. 
113.—Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 79. 
BENGAL, SIKKIM, KnasiA Mrs., CurrrAGoNG to MALACCA, the DECCAN PENIN- 
SULA, BURMA, and CEYLON.—DISTRIB. Tropical Asia, Africa, Australasia, Oceania, 
and America. 
Very slender, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous or scaberulous. Leaves 1-2 in., base narrowed 
often suddenly from below the middle. Spikes 4—6 in., rarely paniculately branche A 
Clusters of flowers } in. long, ovoid, blueish. Sepals oblong, pubescent, outer e 
imperfect flowers) as long as the perfect. Staminodes 2-fid or retuse. Seeds ovoid - 
oblong.—Roxburgh believes this to have been introduced into Bengal from the 
Moluccas, 
9. PUPALIA, Juss. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers in spicate clusters, 
perfect and imperfect; the imperfect reduced to awns bearing stellately 
Spreading hooked bristles. Sepals 5, herbaceous, acuminate, 5—»-nerved. 
Stamens 5, nearly free below; anthers 2-celled ; staminodes 0. Ovary 
ovoid; style slender, stigma capitellate ; ovule 1, pendulous from a long basa 
funicle. “Utricle ovoid, compressed, indehiscent, top areolate.—Species 9, 
Asiatic and African. vat. elena 
1. P. atropurpurea, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 331; slender, 
erect, leaves betioled ovate or elliptic acute or acuminate, spikes 
long, rachis slender, clusters remote bracteate woolly, sepals broadly, 3- 
nerved, laxly villous. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 219; Miq. Fl. Ind. at. 
i 1046. Achyranthes lappacea, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 95 (excl. syn. Ed. 1); 
Roxb, Fl. Ind. i. 673, and in Ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 500. A. atropurpurea, 
Lamk. Dict. i. 546. Desmocheta atropurpurea, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 
102; Wall. Cat. 6933, excl. K; Wight Ic. t. 731; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 
1230.—Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 18, f£. 1; Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 59. 5 
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