Achyranthes. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 677 
Spikes crowded, Nectary ten-parted, alternately antherifer- 
ous. Stigmas two-cleft, 
Illecebrum lanatum, Willd, spec. i. 1204. 
Scheru-bula. Rheed, Mal. x. 57. t. 29. (good.) 
Chenopodium incanum, racemosum, folio majore minori 
opposito. Burm. Zeyl. 60. f. i. (good.) 
Beng, Chaya. 
Is common every where, both on the Coast of Coromandel 
and Bengal. 
A stout, hardy, annual plant, from one to two feet high, 
flowering all the year round, Stems erect, with many ascend- 
ing, woolly branches. Leaves alternate, petioled, roundish, 
with somewhat of a point, and tapering at the base, entire, 
woolly both sides ; size very various. Calyx woolly, Nectary 
 ten-toothed, asin A. scandens, Spikes axillary, oval, woolly. 
Stigma two-lobed, Capsules with a single, smooth, shining 
black, reniform seed. 
Obs. The late edition of the Spee. Plant. by Reichard, 
makes this plant an J lecebrum ; for what reason 1 know not. 
12. A, diandra, R. 
Annual, diffuse, Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolar. Spikes 
terminal; flowers reflected, and pressed close to the rachis, 
Stamina two, alternate with the two multifid lobes of the nec- : 
tary. . : 
A native of Ceylon. 
Root fibrous, annual, or at most biennial. Stems slender, 
straggling, striated, clothed with a few hairs pointing forward, 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, linear-lanceolate, entire, near- 
ly smooth, Spikes terminal, solitary, simple, long, and slen- 
der. Flowers solitary, small, after blossoming reflected back 
close to the rachis. Bractes (calyx ?) three-leaved. Calyx 
of five, rigid, smooth tapering, acute leaflets, Nectary two- 
lobed ; lobes finely and desis multifid, Filaments two, one 
in sank fissure of the nectary, half as long as the corol, An- 
thers incumbent. _Usriculus turbinate. Seed prgent 
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