Alternanthera AMAKAXTACE.E 141 



half ; utricle included in tlie perianth. JMoq. torn. c'lt. 358 ; 

 Senh. torn. eit. 185, t. 56 ; Urh. loc. cit. A. ficoidea Gr'iseh. loc. 

 cit. (1859). Amaranthoides humile curassavicum foliis polygoni 

 Sloane Cat. 48 & Hist, i 141, t. 86, /. 2. Herniaria hirsuta S:c. 

 Browne Hint. Jam. 104. Gomphrena polygonoides L. Sp. PI. 

 225 (1753) (with reference only to syn. Sloane). Illecebrum 

 polygonoides L. Sj). PI. ed. 2, 300 (with reference only to syn. 

 Sloane it Browne). Telanthera polygonoides 3Ioq. torn. cit. 363 

 (1849) (excl. some varieties). 



Spanish Town, Sloane Herb. ii. 106! Houstounl Kingston, Browne I 

 Wrig]it ! Sliakspear ! Distin ! McNah ! Purdie ! in pastures, Newmarket to 

 Darliston, 1150 ft. Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9S69. Bahamas, Cuba, Is. of Pines, 

 Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, 

 St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Mustique, tropical continental America. 



Sterns glabrate, more or less woolly at apex of branches, to 6 dm. 1. or 

 more. Leaves 1-3 cm. 1., -5-1 cm. br., strigose or glabrescent. Heads 

 5-1 cm. 1. Bracts 2 mm. 1. ; hracteoles slightly longer. Flowers white. 

 Perianth, exterior segments 4 '25-4 -5 mm. 1., slightly brownish below; 

 median, slightly shorter than exterior, hirsute in lower half ; interior, 

 about 3"5 mm. 1., glabrous. Stamens 5, about 1-2 mm. 1.; staminodes 

 shorter than the filaments, dilated, apex toothed ; cup very short. Pistil 

 (incl. stigma) 75 mm. 1. ; ovary broader than long. Utricle about 2 mm. 

 1., bluntly obreniform. 



9. PHILOXERUS R. Br. 



Prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite, entire, narrow. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, scarious, capitate, with one bract and two 

 bracteoles ; heads axillary and terminal. Perianth with 5 seg- 

 ments, thickened at the base, supported by a spongy stalk. 

 Stamens 5, filaments united into a short cup at the base, 

 without alternating staminodes ; anthers 1 -celled. Ovary with 

 short style and 2 linear stigmas ; with one ovule at the end of 

 a long stalk. Utricle compressed, ovoid. Seed wdth annular 

 embryo. 



Species about 10, natives of eastern tropical xVmerica, west 

 Africa, Australia, and the Loochoo Islands. 



P. vermieularis Beauv. FI. Ow. d; Ben. ii. 65, t. 98, f. 1 

 (1807); Griseh. FI. Br. W. Incl. 65; Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 223. 

 Gomphrena vermieularis L. Sp. PI. 224 (1753). Gomphrena 

 repens rufescens &c. Broivne Hist. Jam. 184. Illecebrum vermi- 

 culatum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 300 (1762). Iresine vermieularis 

 Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. 2, 340 (1849). Type in Herb. 

 Linn. (Fig. 46.) 



Rock-river, Browne ! Broughton ! Macfadyen ! Parnell ! St. Thomas in 

 the East, Purdie ! MarcJil Montego Bay, Faiocctt\ Pedro BluS, Harris \ 

 Fl. Jam. 9813. Florida, Bahamas, W. Indies, continental tropical 

 America, west Africa. 



