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16. WOEHLERIA Griseb. Abh. Ges. Wiss. Gott. 9: 11. 1861. 
Slender, prostrate, glabrous, branched, annual herbs. eaves opposite petiolate, mem- 
branaceous. Flowers perfect, minute, capitate-spicate, bracteate and bibracteolate, sessile 
in the bractlets, the peduncles axillary or terminal; bracts and bractlets adherent to the rachis. 
Perianth 4-parted, glabrous, the segments oblong, obtuse or acutish, subequal, 3-nerved, 
greenish-white. Stamen 1; filament cuneate, 3-lobed, the lobes triangular, the middle one 
longest and antheriferous; anther small, oblong, 2-celled. Ovary broadly ovoid, compressed ; 
stigmas 2, subulate, recurved; ovule 1, pendulous from the apex of an elongate funicle. Uttricle 
oval-oblong, membranaceous, indehiscent. Seed inverted, lenticular-reniform, smooth, 
shining; embryo annular, the endosperm farinaceous; cotyledons linear, the radicle superior. 
Type species, Woehleria serpyllifolia Griseb. 
1. Woehleria serpyllifolia Griseb. Abh. Ges. Wiss. Gétt. 9: 11. 
1861. 
Branches filiform, 1-3 dm. long, rooting at the nodes; petioles slender, 1-6 mm. long; 
leaf-blades orbicular or rhombic-orbicular, 4-10 mm. long, often slightly broader, rounded 
at the apex, short-decurrent at the base, bright-green; peduncles filiform, 3-10 mm. long; 
spikes 2-13 mm. long, 2 mm. in diameter; bracts and bractlets ovate-triangular, one fourth as 
long as the sepals, obtuse or acutish, scarious, whitish; sepals 1.2 mm. long; utricle nearly as 
long as the sepals; seed 0.5 mm. broad, reddish-brown. 
TYPE LocaLity: Among ferns, near Monteverde, eastern Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba, 
17. GOMPHRENA LI. Sp. Pl. 224. 1753. 
Coluppa Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: 268. 1763. 
Bragantia Vand. Fasc. Pl. Nov. 6. 1771. 
Wadapus Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 77. 1837. 
Xerosiphon. Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 16: 55. 1843. 
Xeraea (1,.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 545. 1891. 
Amarantoides (Tourn.) Maza, Fl. Haban. 94. 1897. 
Annual or perennial, erect or prostrate, branched, pubescent herbs, the joints often 
swollen. Leaves opposite, sessile or petiolate, the blades entire. Flowers perfect, bracteate 
and bibracteolate, spicate or capitate, the heads solitary or glomerate, terminal or axillary, 
naked or subtended by leaves, the flowers white, yellow, or red; bractlets concave, carinate, 
often winged or cristate dorsally; perianth sessile, terete or compressed, 5-lobed or 5-parted, 
usually lanate at the base. Stamens 5, the filaments united to form a tube, this included in 
the perianth or exserted, 5-lobed at the apex, the lobes bifid or emarginate, the anthers sessile 
or stipitate in the sinus of the lobe, oblong or linear, 1-celled. Ovary turbinate or subglobose; 
style short or elongate; stigmas 2 or rarely 3, subulate or filiform, or the stigma bilobate; 
ovule 1, suspended from the apex of an elongate funicle. Utricle compressed; seed inverted, 
sublenticular, smooth; embryo annular, the endosperm farinaceous; radicle superior. 
Type species, Gomphrena globosa L. 
Bractlets cristate along the keel, at least near the apex. 
Stigmas short, stout, nearly sessile; perennial from a fleshy fusiform 
root. 1. G. Nealleyi. 
Stigmas filiform, on a long style; annuals or perennials. 
Heads of flowers 8-15 mm. in diameter. 
Crests conspicuously widest at the apex of the bractlets, the 
flowers thus appearing obtuse or acutish; bractlets equaling 
or shorter than the flowers. 
Calyx-lobes obtuse; perianth longer than the bractlets. 2. G. parviceps. 
Calyx-lobes acute or acuminate; perianth about equaling the 
bractlets. : ; 
Crests as wide as the bractlets. 3. G. Pringlet. 
Crests narrower than the bractlets. 4. G. dispersa. 
Crests widest below the apex of the bractlets if perceptibly widest 
anywhere, the flowers thus acuminate; bractlets much 
longer than the flowers. 
Spikes densely glomerate, each cluster subtended by numerous 
leaves. 
