Achyranthes. pentandria monogvnia. 077 



Spike* crowded. Nectary ten-parted, alternately antherifer- 

 ous. Stigmas two-cleft. 



Illecebrum lanatum. Willd. spec. i. 1204. 



Scheru-bula. Hheed. Mai. x. 57. t. 29. (good.) 



Cheno podium incanum, racemosum, folio majore minori 

 opposito. B rm. Zeyl. 60. f. i. (good.) 



Beny. Chaya. 



Is common every where, both on the Coast of Coromandel 

 and Bengal. 



A stout, hardy, annual plant, from one to two feet h%h, 

 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, as in A. scandens. Spikes axillary, oval, woolly. 

 Stiyma two-lobed. Capsules with a single, smooth, shining- 

 black, reniform seed. 



Obs. The late edition of the Spec. Plant, by Reichard, 

 makes this plant an Illecebrum ; for what reason I 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 thetwomultifid lobes of the nec- 

 tary. 



A native of Ceylon. 



Root fibrous, annual, or at most biennial. Stems slender, 

 strao-o-lino- striated, clothed with a few hairs pointing forward. 



OS O" 7 



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 deeply multifid. Filaments two, one 

 in each fissure of the nectary, half as long as the corol. An- 

 thers incumbent. Utriculus turbinate. Seed solitary. 



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