728 CXVI. AMARANTACEEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ærua. 
Plains of BENGAL, and from Assam to the PANJAB ; ascending the HIMALAYA to 
5000 ft. from Kumaon to Bhotan. CENTRAL INDIA and BEHAR, and summit of 
Parusnath. Concan, Stocks. Prov, M’Clelland. Burma, Wallich, &c.—DisTRIB. 
China, Malay Islands, Philippines, E. and W, tropical Africa. . 
Stem woody below ; branches straggling, several feet long. Leaves opposite and 
alternate, soft, green, 1-4 in. long, sometimes almost rounded; petiole Ad in. 
Spikes sessile, rarely peduncled, 4-1 in. Sepals |, in. long, lanceolate.—Wight has 
erroneously figured the utricle as circumsciss and seed horizontal I doubt if 
Æ. sanguinolenta, Blume, and Æ. timorensis, Moq., differ from this. . 
VAR.? subglobosa ; branches glabrous, spikes large subovoid or globose, 3-3 in. 
diam., on slender peduncles.—Mergui, Griffith (in Herb. Wight).— his resembles 
very indifferent specimens of ZE. scandens (ZE. velutina, Moq.) from the Philippines 
(Cuming, No. 1635), but the spikes are larger. 
3. HE. glabrata, Hook. f.; minutely hairy, leaves elliptic-ovate 
subacute, spikes small cylindric panicled or fascicled towards the ends of the 
branches glistening, bracts ovate equalling the very minute flowers, sepals 
broadly oblong-ovate obtuse or apiculate sparingly hairy. 
BURMA or MALAY PENINSULA, Griffith. . 
Habit of Æ. scandens, but the flowers are very minute, about J, in. long, with very 
broad short and sparsely hairy bracts and sepals, the latter with usually a very broad 
green midrib. Hance’s A. scandens, var. from Canton, may be the same, but the 
spikes are too young for comparison. 
** Spikes all axillary sessile. Leaves alternate. 
4. HE. lanata, Juss.in Ann. Mus. xi. 191; erect or prostrate, branched 
from the base, hoary tomentose, leaves small petioled elliptic orbicular- 
obovate or orbicular obtuse or acute, spikes small very numerous oblong or 
subcylindrie densely woolly not glistening. Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 
303; Wall. Cat. 6909; Wight Ic. t. 793; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 168; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 917; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 993. Æ. floribunda, 
Wight Ie. t. 1776, the analysis only, and vol. v. t. 1776 bis, f. A. Achy- 
ranthes villosa, Forsk. Fl. Æg. Arub. 48. A. lanata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 296; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 676, and Ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 503. Illecebrum lanatum, 
Linn. Mant. 344.—Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 29; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 60, f. 1. 
Plains of BENGAL from Dacca and Behar westward to the Indus. The Conca, 
CENTRAL INDIA, and throughout the Deccan. CEYLON abundant.— DISTRIB. 
Westward to Arabia and tropical and S. Africa, Java, Philippines. 
Branches many, 6-10 in., from a woody stock, simple or divided, woolly. Leaves 
3-1 in. woolly or glabrate. Spikes 4-3 in., sometimes excessively crowded and 
forming subglobose clusters. Sepals obtuse. —Wight's t. 723 is probably A. scandens. 
9. Æ. Wightii, Hook. f. ; branches short woody and leaves beneath 
densely woolly, leaves small broadly ovate or elliptic obtuse thick, clusters 
all axillary sessile shortly oblong or globose densely woolly not glistening; 
outer sepals linear-oblong aristate, inner obtuse. 
TRAVANCORE; at Courtallum, Wight. . 
A low-growing bushy plant, 6-12 in. high, with many stiff branches as thick as 
crow-quill, from a stout woody tap-root. Leaves 1 in. long, narrowed into a short 
petiole. Clusters 1—3 in. long, with the acicular tips of the bracts and outer sepals a 
little longer than the wool; flowers 35 in. long. 
*** Spikes peduncled. Sepals 4. Leaves filiform in opposite fascicles. 
6. HE. Monsonia, Mart. Beitr. Amarant. 83; stem hoary-tomentose 
