726 CXVI. AMARANTACEE. (J.D. Hooker)  [Psüotrichum. 
675, and Ed. Carey & Wall., ii. 502. Leiospermum ferrugineum, Wall. Cat. 
6923. 
BENGAL; a weed in the gardens and cultivated lands of Calcutta, Roxburgh. . 
Wallich's specimen forms an excessively branched prostrate mass 9 in. diam., with 
divaricate branches and linear-oblong leaves 1-14 in. long. Spikes } in. long, dense- 
fid., yellow when dry.—Roxburgh’s description applies more nearly to P. trichotomum 
in the form of the leaves, and Wight’s figure, copied from Roxburgh’s drawing, and 
which shows acuminate sepals, is, I think, certainly taken from the latter plant. 
There are no indications in Wallich’s specimens gathered in the Calcutta Garden of 
the rust-coloured stem, reddish leaves and dull red flowers described by Roxburgh. 
11. PSILOSTACHYS, Hochst. 
Slender dichotomous herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers minute, spicate 
at the tips of the filiform branches of a lax panicle. Sepals 5, 2-3 outer 
convex, strongly 3-nerved, inner narrower. Stamens 5, free; anthers 
2-celled; staminodes 0. Ovary rounded or ovoid, compressed ; style slender ? 
stigma capitellate. Utricle indehiscent. Seed inverse, testa coriaceous; 
embryo hooked, cotyledons slender.—Species 3, Indian, Arabian and 
rican. 
P. sericea, Hook.f. in Gen. Plant. iii. 32; stem erect, villous with 
long hairs, leaves orbicular-ovate acute densely villous above silky beneath, 
peduncles very long axillary filiform, pedicels capillary, spikes 4-6 fid. 
Achyranthes sericea, Koen. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 675, and Ed. Carey § 
Wall. ii. 502; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 318; Wight Ic. 726; Wall. Cat. | 
6930. Psilotrichum sericeum, Dalz. in Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 216. 
GoozERAT; sandy hills on the coast of Kattiawar, Dalzell (and Koenig ?).  . 
_ Annual? Stem stout, hard, terete; hairs patent, } in. long, flexuous, terminating 
in a lax panicle of erecto-patent opposite branches 2 in. long, which divide at the tip 
into capillary pedicels bearing the spikes. Leaves 1 in., thick, base rounded or cor- 
date; petiole very short. Spikes 4-4 in., rachis capillary zigzag ; flowers yy in. long. 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate ; outer pungent, deeply ribbed, silky.—A very beautiful 
plant ; it is not known where Koenig procured it, if indeed he did himself procure it. 
The specimen in the Wallichian Herbarium is marked “ Herb. Koenig.” 
12. NOTHOSIERUA, Wight. 
An annual with opposite spreading branches. Leaves opposite. Flowers 
most minute, woolly, in axillary solitary or clustered spikelets. Sepals 
3-5, hyaline, obtuse, l-nerved. Stamens 1-2, free; anthers 2-celled; stami- 
nodes 0. Ovary oblong, compressed ; stigma subsessile, capitellate ; ovule 1, 
pendulous from a long basal funicle. Utricle oblong, compressed, indehis- 
cent. Seed inverse, lenticular, testa crustaceous ; embryo hooked, cotyledons 
inear. 
N. brachiata, Wight Ic. vi. 1. Pseudanthus brachiatus, Wight 
l. c. t. 1776, excl. analyses, and v. 3, t. 1776 bis, B. Arua brachiata, 
Mart. Beitr. Amarant. 83, n. 3; Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 304 (incorrect 
as tostaminodes) ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 217. Æ. chenopodiifolia, Bayer 
Hort. Maurit. 268. Achyranthes brachiata, Linn. Mant. 50; Roth Nov. 
. pei Illecebrum brachiatum, Linn. Mant. 23. Amarantus minutus, 
eschen. mss. 
UPPER GaNGeTic VALLEY and the PANJAB, from Moradabad north-eastward. 
