Alternanthera.| | AMARANTACEA (Cooke and Wright), 433 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal; Rooiplaat, Miss Leendertz, 765! and without 
precise locality, Kirk, 111! 
Eastern Reston: Natal; Valley of the Umlazi River, Drége! near Durban, 
Krauss, 221! Clairmont, Wood, 3839 ! 
Also in Tropical Asia and Australia, 
XIX. GOMPHRENA, Linn, 
Flowers hermaphrodite, bracteate and bibracteolate. Perianth 
5-partite or 5-fid, usually woolly at the base; segments unequal or 
equal, lanceolate, acuminate, concave, rarely flat and obtuse. 
Staminal-tube long, included or exserted, with 5 emarginate or bifid 
lobes at the top; staminodes usually absent; anthers 1-celled. 
Ovary turbinate or subglobose; style short or long ; stigmas 2, 
rarely 3, subulate or filiform; ovule solitary, suspended from a 
basal funicle. Utricle ovoid or oblong, compressed, sometimes 
hardened at the base. Seed lenticular, smooth; embryo annular 
with narrow or obovate cotyledons ; albumen floury. 
Erect or prostrate branched herbs, usually thickened at the nodes, hairy ; 
leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile, quite entire ; flowers in heads (rarely spikes), 
naked or involucrate, often solitary and sessile at the top of the branches, white 
or ek ; bracteoles short or long, concave, keeled or winged on the back or 
crested, 
Distrip. Species about 90, in Central and South America, 
1. G. globosa (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 224); an erect or ascending 
much-branched annual, 14-3 ft. high; stems terete, pilose ; leaves 
oblong, 1-3 in. long, 4-1 in. wide, mucronate, with numerous long 
soft hairs on both surfaces ; petiole 2-6 lin. long, slightly amplexi- 
caul at the base; heads terminal, solitary or 2-3 together, globose, 
6 lin. in diam., many-flowered ; rhachis villous ; bracts ovate-trian- 
gular, acuminate, mucronate ; bracteoles twice as long as the bracts, 
oblong, acute, very concave, crested on the back ; perianth-segments 
4-5 lin. long, woolly, narrowly lanceolate, keeled, white or purplish ; 
stamens shorter than the perianth ; ovary oblong ; style rather long, 
slender ; stigmas 2, linear; utricle ovoid-oblong, white ; seed com- 
pressed, rostrate, yellowish. Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 409 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 732; Baker & C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Ale .1. 75, 
Kananart Recron: Transvaal; roadsides, Barberton, Burtt-Davy, 274! 
Haamans Kraal, Pretoria District, Burtt- Davy, 1099! Potgieters Rust, 
Miss Leendertz, 1888 ! s 
Eastern Region: Natal; roadsides, near Durban, Grant! Wood, 1929! 
A weed throughout the warmer parts of the world, 
Orper CX. CHENOPODIACE:. 
(By C. H. Wricut.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, usually regular, naked or 
bracteate. Perianth simple, 3-5-lobed, or absent from the female 
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