724 CXVI. AMARANTACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pupalia. 
NEPAL, Wallich, BENGAL; Maldah, Clarke. DECCAN PENINSULA, from 
Guzerat southward, Singapore and Penang, Wallich. CkYrow.—DisTRIB. Java, 
Madagascar, S. Africa, Philippines. . 
Biennial or annual, 2-5 tt.; branches long, straggling, glabrous. Leaves 1-5 in., 
membranous, narrowed into the (3-1 in.) petiole. Spikes 1-10 in. ; rachis sparsely 
pubescent ; clusters sessile, flowering } in., fruiting rarely } in. diam. ; bracts broadly 
ovate, pungent. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, woolly. Awns often purplish. 
2. P. orbiculata, Wight Ic. t. 1783; sparsely pubescent, robust, 
leaves short-petioled orbicular very broadly ovate or elliptic obtuse or 
retuse nearly glabrous, spikes stout, clusters distant woolly. Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 219. Cyathula orbiculata, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 330. Achy- 
ranthes orbiculata, Heyne in Roxb. Fl. Ind., Ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 507. A. 
rotundifolia, Klein. mss. Desmocheta orbiculata, Wall. Cat. 6936. 
Concan Guats (Dalzell). The CARNATIC; in sandy soil near the sea, Heyne, 
&c. CEYLON; Jaffna, Moon. 
Stem stout, erect from a woody stock, terete, glabrate or hispidulous, rarely 
tomentose. Leaves 1-1} in. diam., rigid and brown when dry, suddenly narrowed 
into the flattened petiole. Spikes 4-8 in., rachis stout, sparsely hairy or pubescent; 
when flowering clusters + in. long, fruiting 3 in., spines pale; outer bract short with 
a long spine, inner narrow. 
3. P. lappacea, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 331; shrubby below, 
tomentose, leaves short-petioled from broadly ovate to lanceolate acute or 
subacute, clusters remote or approximate, outermost bract very broad mem- 
branous, sepals 3-nerved, densely woolly. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 219; 
Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 1046. Achyranthes lappacea, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 1. 
204. A. echinata, Retz. Obs. ii. 19. A. patula, Linn. Suppl. 160. A. ' 
lappacea, echinata & patula, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1192, 1193. A. styracifolia, 
Lamk. Dict. i. 546, excl. syn. Desmochæta flavescens, DC. Cat. Hort. 
Monsp. 102; Wall. Cat. 6934. D. patula, Roem. & Schult. Syst. v. 550. 
Amarantus arctioideus, Perrottet Pl. Exsic. No. 94. 
UPPER GaNGETIO VALLEY and PANJAB. WESTERN TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 
1-3000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon. BEHAR, ScinpE, GUzERAT and the DECCAN 
PENINSULA.—DisTRIE. Tropical Asia and Africa. 
A large straggling undershrub; branches terete. Leaves 2—4 in., base acute ; 
petiole 4-} in. Flowering clusters X in long, fruiting } in. diam. . 
VAR. velutina; erect, subsimple, densely villously tomentose, leaves 1-1 1n. 
shortly petioled orbicular. Desmocheta velutina, Wall. Cat. 6935; Mog. l. c. 332. 
‘rua velutina, Mog. l. c. 301.— Deccan Peninsula, Wight in Herb. Wall. Burma, 
at Loungee Yenong and Pagham on the Irawaddi, Wallich.—Moquin has described 
Wartich’s 6935 under both Desmocheta and Arua, quoting the same number M 
each case. 
10. PSILOTRICHUM, Blume. 
‘Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers white or greenish, m 
solitary or panicled dense clusters or spikes. Sepals 5, hard; outer boat- 
shaped, gibbous below, ribbed. Stamens 5, unequal, connate below into 
a cup; anthers 2-celled; staminodes 0. Ovary oblong or subglobose ; style 
slender, stigma capitellate or 2-fid; ovule 1, pendulous from a long. basa 
funicle. Utricle globose or compressed, indehiscent. Seed inverse, lenticular, 
testa coriaceous or crustaceous; embryo annular.—Species 10, Asiatic, 
African and Pacific. 
* Shrubs or undershrubs with woody stocks and lower branches. 
1. P. nudum, Mog. in DO. Prodr. xiii. 2, 280; shrubby, branches 
