Irrsine AMAKANTACE.i: 14r> 



1. I. paniculata Knntze Rev. ii. 542 (1891) ; spikes sessile, 

 golden yellow or white ; tlowers dicjecious. 1/^/-6. Symh. Ant, iv. 

 222. I. Celosia L. Stjst. ed. 10, 1291 (1759). I. celosioides 

 L. Sjj. PL ed. 2, 1456 (1763) ; Wright 3Iem. 268; 3Ioq. in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. pt. 2, 347 ; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Lid. 64. I. erecta 

 ikc. Browne Hist. Jam. 358. Amaranthus panicula tiavicante (kc. 

 Shane Hist. i. 142, /. 90, /". 2. A. nodosus &c. Phi-. Aim. 26, 

 /. 261,/. 1. Celosia paniculata L. Sp. PL 206 (1753). Type in 

 Herb. Linn. 



Juba's Bush. 



Sloanc Herb. ii. 118! ShaksjJearl Bancroftl McNabl ^Nlontego Bay, 

 Parnelll INIoneague, Priori March\ Clydesdale, J. P. 114,-I, Morris \ Ball\ 

 Gordon Town, 1100 ft., Eggersl St. George, Cradivickl Norbrook, 

 Campbell ! Mandeville, 2200 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6238, 6270. Bahamas, 

 Cayman, West Indies, continental America from United States south to 

 Argentina. 



Stem 6-12 dm. 1., weak and trailing, or woody below. Leaves, upper 

 lanceolate, lower ovate, to 15 cm. 1., becoming smaller above, acute or 

 acuminate. Panicles 3 dm. 1. and longer or much contracted, with no 

 leaves or a few ; spikes with pubescent rhachis, 4-7 mm. 1. Bract and 

 bracteoles broadly ovate ; bracteoles not keeled, a little longer than the 

 bract and a little shorter than the perianth. Perianth 1*1 mm. 1., 

 glabrous; segments inconspicuously 3-nerved. Utricle '8 mm. 1. Seed 

 brown-black, "6 mm. br. 



2. I. elatior L. C. Rich, ex WiUd. Sp. PL iv. 766 (1806): 

 .spikes stalked, between umber and buff colour ; flowers poly- 

 gamo-monoecious. Moq. torn. cit. 343 ; Griseh. loc. cit. ; TJrh. loc. 

 cit. (Fig. 48.) 



Brouglttonl Priori coast between Portland Point and Rocky Point, 

 Harris I Fl. Jam. 10,187. West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, 

 Mexico. 



Stem to 12 dm. high, trailing, woody below. Leaves lanceolate, 

 acuminate, to 15 cm. 1., becoming smaller towards the inflorescence. 

 Panicles to 3 or 4 dm., leafy below ; spikes with woolly rhachis, 4-6 mm. 1., 

 or sometimes longer. Bract and bracteoles mucronate, 1-nerved ; bract 

 1-1 mm. 1. ; bracteoles keeled, 1*8 mm. 1. Perianth 1*5 mm. 1., villose ; 

 exterior segments somewhat obtuse, mucronate, with one green nerve, 

 interior narrower, acute ; wool 4-6 mm. 1., on perianth and rhachis. 

 Utricle "8 mm. 1. 



Family XVTT. NYCTAGINACE^. 



Hei'bs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or partly alternate 

 (in Pisonia), entire. Flowers in paniculate, corymbiform, ter- 

 minal and axillary cymes or rarely umbellulate, with a calyx-like 

 involucre (in Mirahilis) or minute bracts, hermaphrodite or uni- 

 .sexual by abortion. Perianth inferior, persistent and increasing 

 in size in the fruit, enclosing the j)ericarp. Stamens 2-10, 

 hypogynous, filaments more or less united at the base, generally 



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