eres. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 675 
spice plants from the Moluccas, Dae during the cold 
season, 
Root ramous, annual, Stem scarcely any, but several pairs 
of opposite, diffuse, round, smooth, coloured branches. Leaves 
opposite, sessile, oblong, entire, coloured. Spikes terminal, 
_ solitary, filiform, sub-erect. Flowers scattered, reflected, ge- 
nerally two together. “Bractes (or calyx) three to the two 
flowers, with the same number of fascicles of hooked red 
bristles asin A. lappacea, Nectary with five, two-toothed 
hornlets, alternate with the filaments, and with them united 
into a membranous ring round the base of the germ. Germ 
am petiole’: . Style single, 
8: A, sericea, Koen, Mss. 
Stem erect, downy. Leaves opposite, hiséall andbaltto, 
covered with much silky down. Peduneles axillary, longer — 
than the leaves, bifid or trifid, many-flowered. 
- A large, straggling annual, growing in sheltered shady 
places in a dry baindy neil 
Root single. Stem erect, with many long spreading branches 
resting on the ground, or something shi all are round, and 
covered with silky down, Leaves wh rials, petioled, broad- - 
cordate, acute, covered with very soft silky down, about an 
inch and a half long. Peduncles axillary, opposite, round, 
downy, as long as the leaves, each ending in two, three, or 
more, spreading, winding filiform spikes. The rest as in the 
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genus. 
9, A. ferruginea. Re 2) 
Annual, flaccid. Leaves opposite, Sbovala.: NSpathes we wib. 
conical, pediincled and sessile. Nectary five-toothed ; each 
tooth ending in a ee antheriferous filament, Stigmas en- 
tire, 
Beng. Rukta-Sirinchee. 
Hind, Lal-Sirinchee. 
A small annual, wild in gardens, or about the bordets of 
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