Nothoserua.] oxvı. AMARANTACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 727 
SCINDE and the Coxcax, Stocks, &c. MarsoR and the CARNATIC. Burma, Wallich. 
CEYLON, common.— DisTRI5. Mauritius, E. and W. tropical Africa. 
Erect, 1-2 ft., branched from the base; branches puberulous, spreading. Leaves 
1-2 in., ovate elliptic or subovate, obtuse or subacute, membranous, green; petiole 
0— in. Spikes very numerous, sessile, i-i in. long, cylindric, white, dense-fid. ; 
bracts broadly ovate, hyaline, persistent. Sepals d; in. long, silkily villous.—One of 
the smallest flowered plants provided with a regular perianth. Moquin has probably 
confounded this with the very similar Ærua lanata (as did Wight), to which the 
latter part of his description applies. 
13. IERUA, Forsk. 
Woolly herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite. Flowers 
small or minute, in solitary or panicled spikes, often polygamous. Sepals 
4-5, short, membranous, all or the inner only woolly. Stamens 4—5, connate 
below with interposed linear staminodes into a cup; anthers 2-celled. 
Ovary ovoid or subglobose; style long or short, stigma capitellate or 2-fid; 
ovule 1, pendulous from a long basal funicle. Utricle indehiscent, or the 
coriaceous crown circumsciss. Seed inverse, testa coriaceous; embryo 
annular.—Species 10, tropical Asiatic and African. 
* Spikes axillary and in terminal panicles, Leaves opposite or alternate. 
1. Æ. javanica, Juss. in Ann. Mus. xi. 131; hoary-tomentose, 
shrubby below, leaves from linear to oblanceolate or oblong acute obtuse 
or retuse, spikes elongate densely woolly not glistening, style elongate, 
stigmas long. Wall. Cat. 6908; Wight Ic. t. 876; Mog. in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 2, 299; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 216; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 992. 
JE. Wallichii, Mog. l. c. 300. Æ. tomentosa, Forsk. Fl. Æg. Arab. 122; 
Lamk. Dict. i. 46. Æ. egyptiaca, Gmel. Syst. 1026. Æ. Bovii, Edgetw. in 
Journ, Linn. Soc. vi. 06; Æ. incana, Mart. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. 
Cur. xii. (1826), 991. Achyranthes alopecuroides, Lamk. l. e. 548. A. java- 
nica, Pers. Syn. i. 259. A. incana, Roxb. FV. Ind. i. 671, and Ed. Carey 
§ Wall. ii. 495. Illecebrum javanicum, Ait. Hort. Kew, 289. Iresine 
javanica & persica, Burm. Fi. Ind. 212 (by error 312), t. 65. Celosia 
anata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 298. 
From the Oupa TzRar, Wallich, to the PANJAB, Royle, &c. SCINDE, Stocks. 
CENTRAL INDIA, Clarke. The Deccan from the CoNcAN southward. BURMA, 
Wallich. CEYLON; N. of the island, Gardner.—DisTRIB. Westward to Arabia, 
E. and W. tropical Africa, and the Cape Verde Islands. Java? . 
Diccious. Stem terete, 2-3 ft. branched, as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 
alternate, 1—4 in., flat or with recurved margins, sessile or narrowed into a petiole; 
nerves distinct. Spikes often in large panicles, sessile, erect or nodding, 1-6 in. 
long. Flowers} in. long, enveloped in long wool, male 
(Fl. Mall. l c.) insists that the narrow-leaved form is a 
odorous, which Æ. javanica (which grows with it) is not. 
of it ; local botanists should see to this. 
2. Æ. scandens, Wall. Cat. 6911, ercl. M; a climbing undershrub, 
branches hoary-tomentose, leaves ovate elliptic oblong or lanceolate obtuse 
or acute glabrous or hoary, spikes globose ovoid or shortly cylindric woolly 
shining, sepals lanceolate acuminate, stigmas very short. Mog. in DC. 
Prodr. xiii. 2, 302; Wight Ic. t. 724 (utricle and seed wrong); Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 217. Achyranthes scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 676, and 
Ed. Carey & Wall., ii. 503. 
s very rare.— Edgeworth 
distinct species, and is 
Boissier makes a variety 
