Parr 2, 1917] AMARANTHACEAE 145 
staminodia ligulate, longer than the anthers and slightly shorter than the sepals, lacerate at 
the apex; style evident, the stigma entire. 
TYPE LOcALity: Near Cituro, Panama. 
DISTRIBUTION: Southwestern Mexico to Panama. 
28. Achyranthes gracilis (Mart. & Gal.) Standley, Jour. Wash. 
Acad. Sci. 5: 74. 1915. 
Gomphrena gracilis Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 10!: 350. 1843. 
Telanthera gracilis Moq. in DC. Prodr. 132: 375. 1849. 
Plants erect, clambering over shrubs, or sometimes procumbent, stuffruticose below; 
stems 5-30 dm. long, much branched, the branches ascending or spreading, striate, strigillose 
or glabrate; petioles slender, 3~15 mm. long; Jeaf-blades ovate-oblong to broadly ovate or oval, 
4-9 em, long, 1.2-4 cm. wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, 
bright-green, sparsely appressed-pubescent or glabrous; peduncles terminal and axillary, 
usually trichotomous, 1-5 cm. long, pilose-strigose or glabrate; spikes globose, solitary or 
glomerate, 10-12 mm. in diameter, the flowers white or slightly stramineous; bracts and bract-. 
lets broadly ovate, acute, mucronulate, one third to one half as long as the sepals, short-villous; 
sepals oblong-linear, 5 mm. long, acutish, subcartilaginous, obscurely 3-nerved, short-pilose, 
the tips spreading; staminodia ligulate, exceeding the anthers and slightly shorter than the 
sepals, lacerate at the apex; style evident, the stigmas entire; seed subglobose, 1 mm. long, 
black and shining. 
TYPE LOCALITY: In the ravine of Acasonica, Vera Cruz. 
DISTRIBUTION: Tamaulipas and Vera Cruz. 
29. Achyranthes Jacquini (Schrad.) Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 
Sci. 5: 74. 1915. 
Gomphrena brasiliensis Jacq. Coll. 2: 278. 1788. Not G. brasiliana L,. 1756. 
Gomphrena dentata Moench, Meth. Suppl. a 1802. 
Philoxerus brasiliensis R. Br. Prodr. 416, 1810. 
Mogiphanes brasiliensis Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp 2: 34. 1826. 
Mogiphanes Jacquini Schrad. Ind. Sem. Gotting. 1834: 4. 1834. 
Caraxeron brasiliensis Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 38. 1837, 
Telanthera dentata Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 378, in part. 1849. 
Alternanthera brasiliana Jacquini Kuntze, Rev. ‘Gen. 538. 1891. 
Frect or ascending annual or perennial, sometimes suffrutescent at the base, simple or 
much branched, the branches stout, ascending, striate, pilose-strigose or glabrate; petioles 
slender, 5-12 mm. long; leaf-blades oval, oblong, or broadly oblong-ovate, 2.5-11 cm. long, 
1-4.5 em. wide, abruptly acute or attenuate at the apex, abruptly acute at the base, thin, 
sparsely or densely pilose-sericeous, sometimes glabrate; peduncles simple or trifid, 2-12 cm. 
long, pilose-sericeous or glabrate; heads subglobose or cylindric, 1—2.5 em. long, 9-11 mm. 
thick; bracts much shorter than the flowers, triangular-ovate, white, glabrous, long-acuminate; 
bractlets longer than the sepals, oblong, acute, sparsely villous, denticulate, cristate dorsally, 
the crest serrulate above; sepals lance-oblong, rigid, 3-nerved, acute, appressed-pilose, 3—3.5 
mm. long; pedicel 0.8-1 mm. long; filaments short; staminodia longer than the filaments, 
ligulate, lacerate at the apex; style short, the stigma entire; seed 0.8 mm. long, reddish-brown. 
Type LocaLiry: Brazil. 
DIstRIBUTION: Barbados, Dominica, and Martinique; also from Trinidad to Brazil. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. pl. 346; Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. pl. 133, 134. 
30. Achyranthes ramosissima (Mart.) Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 
Sci. 5: 74. 1915. 
Mogiphanes ramosissima Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 36. 1826. 
Celosia diffusa Hoffmsgg.; Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 36, as synonym. 1826. 
Telanthera ramosissima Moa. in DC. Prodr. 13?: P38i. 1849, 
Celosia altissima Salzm.; Mog. in DC. Prodr. 132: 381, assynonym. 1849. 
Telanthera floridana Chapm. FI. S. U.S. 383. 1860. ne 
Alternanthera brasiliana Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 20: 452. 1895. Not Gomphrena brasiliane L. 
1 
756. 
Alternanthera floridana Small, Fl. SE. U.S. 396. 1903. 
