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lanate, the lobes linear, long-attenuate, white; stamen-tube usually included; style elongate, 
the stigmas slender; seed 1.5 mm. long, brown. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. 
DistRisuTion: Dry, stony soil, southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona to Jalisco 
and Durango. 
9. Gomphrena globosa L. Sp. Pl. 224. 1753. 
Gomphrena globosa carnea Mog, in DC. Prodr. 13?: 409. 1849. 
Xeraea globosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 545, 1891. 
Amarantoides globosus Maza, Fl. Haban. 94. 1897. 
Amarantoides globosus albiflorus Maza, Fl. Haban. 95, 1897. 
Gomphrena globosa aurei flora Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 12: 340. 1913. 
Annual, 3-10 dm. high, much branched throughout, or sometimes simple; branches stout, 
swollen and often purplish at the nodes, pilose-strigose, or sometimes pilose; leaves short- 
petiolate, the blades oblong, oval, ovate-lanceolate, broadly ovate, or spatulate, 2-10 cm. long, 
0.5-5 cm. wide, acute at the apex, mucronate, rounded to acuminate at the base, bright-green, 
appressed-pilose on both surfaces, often densely so; each head subtended by 2 or rarely 3 leaves, 
these cordate-ovate or broadly ovate, sessile, acute, shorter than or sometimes exceeding the 
heads; heads globose or short-cylindric, long-pedunculate, mostly 2~2.5 cm. in diameter, the 
rachis villous; bracts triangular-ovate, long-acuminate; bractlets 8-12 mm. long, 2-3 times as 
long as the bracts, oblong, acute, and white, yellow, red, or purple, broadly cristate along the 
keel, the crest serrulate; perianth densely lanate, shorter than the bractlets, the lobes lance- 
subulate, l-nerved, scarious, white or purplish, green along the nerve; stamen-tube longer or 
shorter than the perianth, the free part of the filaments oblong; style elongate, slender; stig- 
mas linear, erect; utricle oblong; seed ovoid or sublenticular, shining, yellowish. 
Tyrz Locatity: India. : . 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Asia; escaped from cultivation in Mexico, Central America, the 
West Indies, and rarely in the United States; also in South America. 
InLusrrations: Gaertn. Fruct. Suppl. p/. 128; Bot. Mag. pl. 2815; Descourt. Fl. Ant. pl. 320; 
Schnitel. Iconogr. pl. 102; Wight, Ic. pl. 1784; Hegi, Ill. Fl. f. 559, i-m. 
10. Gomphrena Haageana Klotzsch, Allg. Gart. 21: 297. 1853. 
? Gomphrena coccinea Decaisne, Rev. Hort. IV. 3: 161. 1854. 
Gomphrena tuberifera Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 181. 1859. 
Xeraea tuberifera Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 545. 1891. 
Perennial from an elongate tuberous root about 1 cm. in diameter; plants 2-7 dm. high, 
much branched or simple, the branches erect, pilose or appressed-pilose; leaves subsessile 
or on petioles 2 cm. long or shorter, the petioles usually loosely pilose; leaf-blades oblanceolate 
to oblong-linear, 3-10 cm. long, 0.3~-1 cm. wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, mucronate, 
attenuate at the base, green, appressed-pilose or loosely pilose, rarely glabrate; leaves sub- 
tending each head 2, shorter than or much exceeding the head, linear-lanceolate to ovate, 
long-acuminate, sessile; peduncles elongate; heads globose or short-cylindric, 2-2.8 cm. in 
diameter; bractlets 2-3 times as long as the bracts, 1-1.5 cm. long, very broadly cristate along 
the keel, the crest serrulate; perianth equaling or shorter than the bractlets, the lobes lance- 
linear, acuminate, the tube densely lanate; stamen-tube slightly shorter than the perianth or 
sometimes longer; free part of the filaments elongate; style elongate, the stigmas short, sub- 
divaricate; seed brownish-red, 1.5 mm. broad, lenticular, shining. 
Typg LocaLiry: Not known. . 
DISTRIBUTION: Western Texas to Coahuila and Nuevo Le6én. 
11. Gomphrena Sonorae Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 181. 1859. 
Gomphrena decipiens S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 437. 1886. Not G. decipiens Seub. 1875. 
Xeraea Sonorae Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 545. 1891. 
Gomphrena Sonorae Watsonii Stuchlik, Beih. Bot. Centr. 30: 405. 1913. 
Annual or perennial from fibrous or woody roots, the top of the caudex sparsely branched; 
plants 1.5-6 dm. high, much branched or rarely simple, the branches erect or ascending, slender, 
glabrate or.sparsely pilose-strigose; leaves short-petiolate or the upper subsessile, the blades 
elliptic, oblanceolate, or oblong, 3-10 cm. long, 0.5-1.2 cm. wide, acuminate to acutish at 
