678 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Celosia. 
13. A. triandra, R. - 
Annual, creeping. Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, 
smooth. Flowers triandrous. Capsules winged. 
Illecebrum sessile. Willd. spec. i. 1209. 
Coluppa. Rheed. Mal, x. 21. t. 11. 
Amaranthus humilis foliis oppositis, flosculis‘} in alis con- 
glomeratis, Burm. Zeyl. 17, t. 4. f. 2. (good.) 
Telinga, Ponagunta-kura, 
Sans, Shalanchi. 
Beng. Shanchi, also shalooncha, 
A native of Bengal where it is a common weed during the 
rainy season, 
14, A. nodiflora. R. | 
Annual, diffuse. Leaves obovate, cuneate. Spikes glo- 
bular. Nectary with only five, antheriferous ee. Stig- 
ma simple, i 
Celosia nodiflora. Willd. spec. i. 1202. 
Amaranthoides indicum, nodiflorum, capitulis exatee virl- 
descentibus, Burm. Zeyl. 16. t. 5. f. 2. 
A native of Coromandel, Flowers in the cold season, The 
ovarium in this plant contains but a single ovulum, attached 
to the bottom of its single cell, consequently its place i is in 
this genus to whieh I have transferred it. 2 
595. CELOSIA. Schreb. gen. N. 405... * | 
ae fivacheared and calycled, Corol none. Mears 
stamiferous, surrounding the base of the ovarium. Germ one- 
celled; ovula several, attached to the bottom of the cell. 
Capsules opening transversely and containing more seeds 
= one, _ a ities with a central — aie 
papi jap 
op C. eiyours Willd. spec. i. 97. pale £9 
"Erect, ‘annual. ‘Leas rt anes t oblong, spits 
