138 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUuME 21 
6-8 mm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the apex, mucronulate, firm, puberulent and green on the 
upper surface, tomentulose beneath, the hairs hispidulous; heads sessile or very shortly pe- 
dunculate, axillary, solitary, ovoid, the flowers sordid-s ramineous; bracts and bractlets half 
as long as the sepals, ovate, mucronate, short-villous; sepals 3 mm. long, the outer ones ovate- 
lanceolate, 5-nerved, the inner narrower, short-villous; stamen-tube short; staminodia slightly 
longer than the filaments, ligulate, laciniate at the apex; style elongate; utricle ovate; seed 
lenticular, fuscous, shining. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Martinique. 
DISTRIBUTION: Martinique. 
8. Achyranthes portoricensis (Kuntze) Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 
Sei. 5: 73. 1915. 
? Brandesia serpyllifolia Mart. Denks. Akad. Mitnch. 5: 106, in part. 1817. Not Achyranthes 
serpyllifolia Poir. 0. 
? Telanthera serpyllifolia Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 373. 1849. 
Alternanthera portoricensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 540. 1891. 
Telanthera Sintenisii Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 301. Ap 1899. 
Telanthera dolichocephala Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 302. 1899. 
Alternanthera culebrasensis Uline, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. Bot. 1: 420. Au 1899. 
Alternanthera Sintenisii Uline, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. Bot. 1: 421. 1899. 
Alternanthera dolichocephala Urban, Symb. Ant. 4: 221. 1905. 
Prostrate perennial ; stems much branched, 2-10 dm. long, very slender, densely villous 
when young with hispidulous white hairs, usually glabrate in age; petioles slender, 3-10 mim, 
long; leaf-blades orbicular, rounded-ovate, or broadly oval, 1-4 cm. long, thin, densely pilose 
with hispidulous or branched hairs when young, usually glabrate in age, rounded at the apex, 
mucronulate, often apiculate, rounded at the base and short-decurrent; heads axillary, ‘sessile, 
solitary, the flowers white; bracts and bractlets ovate-oblong, long-acuminate, half as long 
as the sepals, subhyaline, sparsely or densely short-pilose; sepals lance-oblong, 3-4 mm. long, 
long-acuminate, 3-nerved, densely pilose, the inner ones narrower; filaments linear, the tube 
short; staminodia equaling or slightly exceeding the filaments ligulate, laciniate at the apex; 
style elongate. 
TYPE LOcALITy: Guayama, Porto Rico. . . 
DISTRIBUTION: On rocky hillsides or in moist thickets, Porto Rico and the Danish West Indies. 
9, Achyranthes Bettzickiana (Regel) Standley. 
Telanthera Bettzickiana Regel, Gartenflora 11: 178, 1862. 
Achyranthes picta Pass. Giardini 9: 515. 1863. 
Alternanthera spathulata Lemaire, Ill, Hortic. 12: #1. 445. 1865. 
Telanthera picta C. Koch, Wochenschr. Gartn. 9: 15. 1866. 
Telanthera Betizickiana typica Seub. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 5': 172. 1875. 
Telonthera Betizickiana spathulata Seub. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 51: 172. 1875. 
Alternanthera Kerberi Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 20: 450. 1895. 
Erect or ascending annual or perennial, sometimes suffrutescent at the base, 0.7-4 dm. 
high, much branched, the branches ascending, stout, swollen at the nodes, striate, villous when 
young but soon glabrate; petioles slender, equaling or shorter than the blades; leaf-blades 
rhombic, rhombic-ovate, or rhombic-obovate, 1-3.5 cm. long, 0.7-1.7 cm. wide, acuminate 
or abruptly acute at the apex, mucronulate, abruptly long-attenuate at the base, undulate 
or crispate, sparsely appressed-pilose when young, glabrate in age, green or usual y purplish- 
red, often variegated; heads axillary, sessile, usually solitary, ovoid or oblong, the flowers 
whitish; bracts and bractlets broadly ovate, shortly aristate-acuminate, at least the lower 
ones laciniately lobed, glabrous, half as long as the sepals; sepals lance-oblong, acute or acumi- 
nate, mucronate, 3-nerved, sparsely pilose; staminodia equaling the filaments, ligulate, laciniate 
at the apex; style elongate; utricle ovoid. 
Type Locality: Brazil. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Escaped from cultivation in Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, and southern Mexico; 
believed to be a native of Brazil. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ill. Hortic. pl. 445. 
