AMARANTHACEAE 471 
l-celled. Fruit a utricle or pyxidium, or rarely baeeate.—About 40 genera 
and 475 species, widely distributed. 
ART 4-celled. 
aves altern 
Fruit a a. Tribe I. CELOSI zm 
Fruit 1-seeded. Tribe II. AMARAN IE 
Leaves opposite. 'Tribe III. Gio CHE nae: 
Anthers 2-celled. 
als ae or nearly so, unchanged at l 
matu Tribe IV. GOMPHRENEAE. 
Sepals pon united, the tube indurate at 
maturity and variously appendage ed. Tribe V. FROELICHIEAE. 
I. CELOSIEAE 
Woody plant with spreading or vine-like branches. 1. CELOSIA. 
II. AMARANTHEAE 
Perianth present in the pistillate flowers. 2. AMARANTHUS. 
Perianth wanting in the pistillate flowers. 3. ACNIDA. 
II. CENTROSTACHYDEAE 
Firm-herbaceous or partly woody plants with Pond spikes, 
the flowers and fruits deflexed. 4. CENTROSTACHYS. 
IV. GOMPHRENEAE 
Stigma capitate. 5. ACHYRANTHES. 
Stigma wit slender lobes 
Stamen-tube with bron id lobed, toothed, or laciniate seg- 
no i Hout pseudostaminodia. 6. GOMPHRENA. 
Stamen-tube with entire segments, and often with 
pseudostaminodia. 
Flowers not compressed, borne in panicled spikes. 7. IRESINE. 
ae Brronely compressed, borne in dense head- like 
pikes 8. PHILOXERUS. 
V. FROELICHIEAE 
Herbs with virgate flowering stems. 9. FROELICHIA. 
1. CELOSIA L. Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate: blades mainly 
entire. Flowers perfect, spicate: sepals 5, scarious. Filaments partially 
united. Styles united. Ovules 2-8. Utricle 
circumscissile—About 40 species, bacis of 
tropieal and subtropical regions.—Forms 
with fasciated inflorescence are are orite 
garden ud —CocK'$-COMBS.—The flowers 
are white or greenish white. 
1. C. nitida Vahl. Perennial, glabrous, 1 m. 
long or more: leaf-blades ovate, deltoid- 
ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-7 cm. long: 
spikes 1-3 cm. long: sepals oblong, 3.5—4 
mm. long: utricle include d: seed about 1 
long. [C. paniculata (Chapm. F1.)]— 
Coastal sand-dunes and hammocks near the 
~ S Fla.; pus à Tex.—(W. I. Mez., 
C. A., 8. A.)—All y 
2. AMARANTHUS [Tourn.] L. Herbs. Leaves alternate: blades entire. 
Flowers polygamous, monoecious, or dioecious, densely spieate or um each 
btended by mostly 3 bracts. Sepals 2-5. Filaments distinct. Stigmas 2 or 
8, distinct. Ovule solitary. Utricle circumscissile, irregularly opening or inde- 
