676 . PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Achyranthes. 
cultivated lands near Calcutta, where it appears during the 
rainy season. 
Stems slender, leaning, about a foot long, absolutely four or 
five-sided, smooth, rust-coloured. Branches opposite, and 
like the stem, Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval or obo- 
vate, entire, smooth, of a very soft texture, reddish; about an 
inch long. Spikes peduncled, or sessile, small, conical. Pe- 
dunceles four-sided, length various. Braces in general two, 
. opposite, leaf-like, but much smaller, Flowers crowded, 
small, dull red. Calycle three-leaved, the two lateral ones 
falling off with the five-leaved calyx and seed ; the third or 
undermost one remains. There may be an impropriety in 
calling these the calycles. Nectary cup-shaped, five-toothed, 
teeth lengthened into five filaments, Stigma simple. ‘Seed 
solitary, in a membranaceous utriculus, 
10. A, scandens, R. 
Perennial, climbing, downy. Leaves alternate, oblong-ven- 
tricose, Spikes axillary, solitary, sessile. Calyx hairy. Nee- 
tary ten-parted, Stigmatwo-lobed. + 
Beng. Nooriya. 
A native of hedges, &c. near Calcutta ; in flower about the 
close of the rains, 
Stems and branches dining below woody, perennial ; 
young parts more or less hairy. Leaves alternate, short-pe- 
tioled, oblong, a little ventricose, hairy, and of a soft texture; 
size very various. Spikes sessile, axillary, and terminal ; 
those from the axills small, and solitary ; while the terminal 
ones are large, and generally three or more of them together. 
Calyx and calyele silver-coloured, and woolly, _Nectary 
ten-toothed ; teeth equal, alternately antheriferous. Style 
single. Stigma two-lobed. Capsules circumcised, contain- 
ig a single, black, smooth reniform seed. 
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Annual seteet,ramous, woolly, isis dct 
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