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2. HERMBSTADTIA, Reich. 
Characters as in Celosia, except that elongate, 2-fid stami- 
nodia alternate with the perfect stamens, which are united at 
base into a short tube.—DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p. 246. 
South African undershrubs, erect, branching, glaucous. Leaves alternate. 
Flowers in long spikes or terminal heads ; bracts coloured.—3 species, in 
Caffraria and at Natal. 
Trine 2. AcHYRANTHER. (Gen. 3-10.) 
3. AMARANTUS, Tourn. 
Flowers polygamo-moneecious, 3-bracted. Calyx 5- rarely 
3-parted ; segments equal, erect, glabrous. Stamens 5-3, free; 
filaments subulate; no staminodia; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 
1-celled, 1-ovuled; style 0; stigmas 2-3, subulate, spreading. 
Fruit ovate, 2-3-beaked, splitting across the middle, 1-seeded. 
Seed vertical—DC. Prod. xin. pf. 2. p. 255. 
Herbs, often weeds, throughout the tropics and warmer zones. Leaves 
alternate. Flowers small, purplish or green, in panicled spikes or glome- 
rules.—A. Thunbergii, Moq., and 4. Blitum, Linn., diffused. 
4. PSILOTRICHUM, Bl. 
Flowers bisexual, 3-bracted. Calyx 5-parted; segments 
subequal, erect, glabrous or villous. Stamens 5, in a short 
cup ; filaments filiform; staminodia 0; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 
1-celled, 1-ovuled ; style long; stigma capitate. Fruit ovate, 
indehiscent, 1-seeded, quite hidden in the closed calyx.—D0. 
Prod. xii. pt. 2. p. 279. 
Herbs or undershrubs, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves opposite, petioled, 
entire. Flowers in terminal or axillary spikes.—1 tropical species, pro- 
bably Eastern. 
5. TRICHINIUM, R. Br. 
Flowers bisexual, 3-bracted. Calyx 5-parted; segments 
subequal or unequal, erect, at length spreading at the tip, 
villous-plumose. Stamens 5, combined in a cup or tube; no 
staminodia ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; style 
long; stigma capitate. Fruit obovate or ovate, valveless, 1- 
seeded, enclosed in the connivent base of the plumose-tipped 
calyx.—DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p. 297. 
Herbs or undershrubs, chiefly Australian, many of great beauty. —7. Zey- 
heri, Moq., our only species, has tufted or opposite, narrow linear, glabrous, 
pale green leaves, and pale brown flowers, with white, silky long hairs. 
6. ASRVA, Forsk. 
Flowers bisexual, 3-bracted. Calyx 5-parted, the segments 
equal, erect, woolly. Stamens 5, united in a cup at base ; 
