CHENOPODIACE/E 99 



staminodes each of which has a toothed scale at the back, 

 t. 464. 



Species about 15. 



Achyranthes aspera Linn. var. rubro-fusca; F.B.L 

 iv 730, XV 2. Stem I to 3 feet simple. Leaves orbicular 

 or elliptic, variable, usually thick and tomentose or vel- 

 vetty. Spikes rigid lengthening as flowers open. 

 Flowers Ye inch hardening as the seeds set. Bracteoles 

 ovate half as long as their spine. Stamens 5, stami- 

 nodes fimbriate. 



Nilgiris : at Coonoor. Fyson 3081. 



Achyranthes bidcntata Bl ; F3.1. IV 730, XV 2. 

 Very similar to the preceding but the two bracteoles of 

 each flower reduced to small spines without any blade, 

 and staminodes not fimbriate. Flowers ^ inch- Leaves 

 acuminate, t. 472. 



Nilgiris : Ootacamund, Kotagiri. Pulneys : Kodaikanal. 

 Fyson 4327. Sedgwick 1630. 



CHENOPODIACE/E. 



Herbs with simple alternate leaves, usually covered 

 as also the flowers with a white mealy powder. Flowers 

 with small sepals, no petals. Stamens 5, no staminodes. 

 Ovary with I ovule, in fruit usually enclosed in the 

 fleshy calyx. Embryo simply or spirally curled round 

 the endospenn. 



Genera 75, species 500, most of them in salty places, sea 

 marshes, etc. 



Well known plants are Beta, cultivated as a vegetable and 

 the source of Beet-sugar ; Spinacia, spinach ; Salicornia Glass 

 wort. 



CHENOPODIUM. f.b.i. 1172. 



Erect or prostrate herb, stem angled. Flowers minute. 

 Embryo curled round the endosperm. 

 Species 60, in temperate climates. 

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