676 pentandiua MONOGYNiA. Achyranthes. 



cultivated lands near Calcutta, where it appears during the 

 rainy season. 



Stew* slender, leaning, about a foot long, absolutely four or 

 five-sided, smooth, rust-coloured. Branches opposite, and 

 like the stem. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval or obo- 

 vate, entire, smooth, of a very soft texture, reddish, about an 

 inch long. Spikes peduncled, or sessile, small, conical. Pe- 

 duncles four-sided, length various. Bractes in general two, 

 opposite, leaf like, but much smaller. Flowers crowded, 

 small, dull red. Cafycle three-leaved, the two lateral ones 

 falling off with the five-leaved calyx and seed ; the third or 

 undermost one remains. There may be an impropriety in 

 calling these the calycles. Nectary cup-shaped, fi ve-toolhed, 

 teeth lengthened into five filaments. Stigma simple. Seed 

 solitary, in a membranaceous utriculus. 



10. A. scandens. R. 



Perennial, climbing, downy. Leaves alternate, oblong- ven- 

 tricose. Spikes axillary, solitary, sessile. Calyx hairy. JVec- 

 tary ten-parted. Stigma two-lobed. 



Beng. Nooriya. 



A native of hedges, &c. near Calcutta ; in flower about the 

 close of the rains. 



Stems and branches climbing, below woody, perennial ; 

 young parts more or less hairy. Leaves alternate, short-pe- 

 tioled, oblong, a little ventricose, hairy, and of a soft texture; 

 size very various. Spikes sessile, axillary, and terminal ; 

 those from the axills small, and solitary ; while the terminal 

 ones are large, and generally three or more of them together. 

 Calyx and calycle silver-coloured, and woolly. Nectary 

 ten-toothed ; teeth equal, alternately antheriferous. Style 

 single. Stigma two-lobed. Capsules circumcised, contain- 

 ing a single, black, smooth reniform seed. 



11. A. lanata. R. 



Annual, erect, ramous, woolly. Leaves alternate, orbicular. 



