674 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Achyranthes. 
__ Blitum scandens, fructu la PPE Burm: Zeyl. 47. t. 18, 
J. 1. (good.) : 
' Beng. Kuya-duya, Duya-kuya. 7 
Is found in most parts of India, generally growing antong, 
bushes, Flowering time the rainy season, 
6. A, alternifolia, Herb. Banks, ~ 
Annual, diffuse. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong. Spikes 
axillary, longer than their leaves, two variously horned bo- 
dies between the corol and calyx. Nectary none. - 
* Beng, Luta-mohooriya, Gungatiya, 
Teling. Chancheli kura. 
Annual, common on most cultivated lands, in the Botanic 
garden at Calcutta ; it is a most troublesome w eed, 
Stem when the plant is young, tolerably erect, but ever af- 
terwards prostrate, with longer, prostrate, striated, succulent 
branches, Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong, or ovate, point- 
ed, sometimes a little waved, margins cowined's below a lit- 
tle hairy, about two inches long. Petioles chanielled Spikes 
axillary, twice as Jong as the leaves or more. Flowers soli- 
tary, alternate, small, red. Practes three-fold, concave, one- 
flowered ; ; immediately within each of the two lateral bractes 
isa compreactt ramous, green body. Calya five-leaved ; the 
inner segments three-coloured. Nectary no other than the en- 
larged bases of the filaments, Seed single, in its rugose utri- 
cals, — 
~The leaves and tender tops are used by RIE in their 
curries, It ought to be carefully compared with A. muricata. 
7. A. prostrata, Willd, spec, i, 1194. 
Annual, diffuse, Leaves opposite. Spikes filiform. Flowers 
reflexed, with fascicles of bristles adjoining. ectary with 
five bidentate horns, alternating with the filaments. 
Scheru-cadelari, Rheed. Mal. x. 157, 79. 
Auris canina femina. Rumph. Amb. vi. 26. t. i. ; 
dutroduced i into, be, Botanic cals at Calcuttns a amon 
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