318 CI. AMARANTACER. 
filaments subulate ; staminodia toothed or subulate-triangular ; 
anthers 2-celled. Ovary l-ovuled; style short; stigmas 2, 
minute, rarely elongate. Fruit roundish, valveless, 1-seeded, 
enclosed in the calyx.—DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p. 299. 
More or less white-tomentose herbs or halfshrubs, with alternate or op- 
posite leaves, and minute flowers in terminal and axillary, dense, short 
spikes.—2 South African species, besides the common 4. lanata. 
7. SERICOCOMA, Fenzl. 
Flowers bisexual, solitary or 2-3 together, the solitary or 
medial flowers 3-bracted, the others 2-bracted. Calyx 5-parted ; 
segments equal or unequal, mostly pointless, villous exter- 
nally ; the two outer ones sometimes longer and spinous. 
Stamens 5, united in a cup; filaments filiform; staminodia 
small, scale-like, flat, entire or ciliolate. Ovary 1-ovuled ; 
style simple, straight or oblique; stigmas capitate. Fruit 
ovoid or obovoid, valveless,” 1-seeded, enclosed in the calyx. 
—DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p. 806. q 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, the lowest sometimes op- 
posite. Flowers in cylindrical or capitate, terminal spikes, spreading after 
flowering.—6 species, dispersed. 
8. ACHYRANTHES, Linn. 
Flowers bisexual, 3-bracted. Calyx 5—-4-parted ; segments 
subequal, erect; mostly glabrous, at length hardened. Sta- 
mens 5-4, united in a cup; filaments narrow ; staminodia 5, 
flat or concave, toothed or lacerate at apex, rarely entire, some- 
times produced into a dorsal, erect, toothed or frmged appen- 
dix ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 1-ovuled; style longish ; stigmas 
capitate. Fruit 1-seeded, valveless, enclosed in the calyx. 
DC. Prod. xii. pt. 2. p. 809. 
Herbs or undershrubs, of warm countries. Leaves opposite. Flowers 
spreading, glabrous, in slender er ovate spikes, rarely in heads. Bracts 
subulate, very acute, mostly glabrous.—4 Cape species. 
9. CYATHULA, Lour. 
Flowers bisexual, 3-bracted, subternate ; the medial fertile, 
the lateral sterile and changing into hooked bristles. Calyx 
5-parted ; segments subequal, erect, hispid. Stamens 5, united 
ina cup ; filaments subulate-linear ; staminodia 5, flat, toothed 
or lacerate at apex, sometimes 2-fid, and sometimes produced 
at back into an erect, slender, 2-fid appendage; anthers 2- 
celled. Ovary 1-ovuled ; style longish; stigma capitate. Fruit 
oblong, valveless, 1-seeded, enclosed in the calyx.—DC. Prod. 
xill. pt. 2. p. 325. 
