672 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Achyranthes, 
Iresine javanica, Burm. Ind. 212. (by mistake 312.) tab. 
65. f. 2. 
Found wild in various parts of India, i in flower, and with | 
ripe seed most part of the year. : 
Stems nearly erect. Branches few, and nearly erect, all 
the most tender parts very hoary, indeed white ; general 
height from three to five feet. Leaves alternate, sub-sessile, 
narrow-lanceolate, entire, hoary, Panicles terminal, com- 
posed of alternate, sessile, incurved, cylindric spikes, com-— 
pletely crowded with numerous, small, white flowers. Ca- 
lycle two or three, broader, smooth, hyaline scales. Calyx 
five-leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, hyaline, very woolly toward 
the base on the outside; three of the five rather narrower. 
and with a little green in the centre. Nectary a short, ten- 
toothed cup round the germ. Filaments no other than the. 
teeth of the nectary. Anthers could not be detected, yet 
the seeds are fertile. Germ superior, obcordate, one-celled, 
one-seeded. Style short. Stigma two-cleft; segments hairy, - 
and recurved in opposite direction, Utricudus an entire, one- 
celled membrane. | Seeds solitary. 
'. Obs, From the above description it appears evident that 
this plant is clearly an Achyranthes ; having the entire mem- 
branaceous utricular capsules of that genus, containing a sin- 
gle, lenticular, reniform, highly polished seed, with central 
| i a and peripherical embryo. 3 
“ - aspera, Willd. spec. i. i. 1191. 
Biennial, sub-erect, ramous, Leaves’ opposite, obovate, 
downy. Spikes most long, with flowers cetretiaciem 
Beng. Chichiria, Apang. : 
Cadelari, Rheed. Mal, x. 155. t. 78. vn (elbead 
___ Amaranthus spicatus zeylanicus, foliis — Burm. te 
16. 4. 50. ach 
_ A troublesome weed i in every part of India, chiefly iielbi 
“the rainy aud i et ns ers ge the year. 
3 PSTE WH ute aie AiG adage?” 
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