404 AMARANTACES (Cooke and Wright). 
XV. Achyranthes.—Staminodes present. Filaments connate into a long 
tube, Leaves opposite. 
XVI. Achyropsis.—Staminodes present. Filaments connate at the base. 
Leaves opposite or fascicled, 
Tribe 3. GomMPHRENEZ.—Anthers 1-celled. Ovule solitary. 
XVII. Telanthera.—Frwit not compressed. Stigma capitate. 
XVIII. Alternanthera.—Fruit much compressed, winged. Stigma capitate. 
XIX. Gomphrena —Fruit compressed. Stigmas 2, linear. 
I. CELOSIA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, bracteate and 2-bracteolate, arranged in 
dense terminal and axillary spikes, or fasciculate along the floriferous 
branchlets, sessile or shortly pedicellate, white, silvery or rosy, 
shining. Perianth scarious, 5-partite ; segments (sepals) oblong or 
lanceolate, obtuse or acute, erect in fruit. Stamens 5; filaments 
subulate or filiform, united at the base into a membranous cup ; 
anthers short or elongate, 2-celled. Ovary ovoid or subglobose ; 
ovules 2 or more on elongated basal funicles; style short or long 
or 0; stigmas 2-3, subulate. Fruit ovoid or oblong, membranous, 
cireumscissile. Seeds 2 or more, usually erect, lenticular ; testa 
crustaceous, black, smooth, polished ; embryo annular, surrounding 
farinaceous albumen. 
Herbs or undershrubs, erect or rambling; leaves alternate, attenuated into the 
petiole, simple or rarely lobed. 
Distris. Species about 40, in the warmer regions of the globe. 
1. C. trigyna (Linn. Mant. 212); a branched slender somewhat 
straggling glabrous herb; leaves 1-3 in. long, ovate, hastate- 
ovate, or lanceolate, with cuneate base, glabrous ; petioles of the 
lower leaves reaching 1 in. long, slender ; inflorescence in spike-like, 
sometimes paniculate racemes 3-12 in, long; cymes interrupted ; 
perianth-segments 11 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, equal, straw- 
coloured, usually l-nerved; stamens without interposed teeth ; 
filaments united into a cup at the base, free portion } lin. long, 
subulate ; anthers short, elliptic, 2-celled ; style very short, about 
} lin. long; stigmas 3, recurved, 1} lin. long ; capsule 1 lin. long, 
subglobose, circumscissile a little below the middle ; seeds flattened, 
subreniform, } lin. in diam., smooth and shining, black. Moquin 
in DO. Prodr. xiii. ii. 240; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 211 ; Oli. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 140 (ewel. syn.) ; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iii, 14, 99; E. G. Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 
Bot. iv. 39; Baker & C. B. Ol. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 19. 
C. triloba, Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. (1843) 448 (548). 
Achyranthes decumbens & A. paniculata, Forsk. Fl. Aigypt-Arab. 47, 
48, Lestibudesia trigyna, R. Br. Prodr. 414. 
