494 CII. AMARAXTACE.^. 



-^ in. long, pale-brown, polished. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 728 ; Dak. & Gribs. 

 p. 217 ; Wight, Icon. t. 725 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. p. 403 ; Wootlr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 364 ; Prain,' Bang. PI. p. 873. Cehsia 

 Monsonia, Eetz. Obs. fasc. 2, p. 13; Grab. Cat. p. 168. — Flowers: 

 Oct.-Jan. 



Balzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! S. M. Country : Belgaum, Jiltchie, 1998 !, 

 Stocks I; Badaiiii, Wvudruwl, Kanitkar\, Bhival — Distrib. India (Bengal, Central 

 India, Birma, W. Peninsula). 



6. PSILOSTACHYS, Hochst. 



Slender dichotomously branched herbs. Leaves opposite, petiolate. 

 Flowers minute, in branched pedunculate cymes spicately arranged near 

 the ends of the filiform branches of the cyme. Perianth 5-partite, 

 coriaceous ; the 2 or 3 outer sepals strongly 3-nerved, broader than the 

 inner. Stamens 5, free ; anthers 2-celled ; stnminodes 0. Ovary 

 subglobose or ovoid, 1-celled ; ovule solitary ; style slender ; stigma 

 capitellate. Utricle indehiscent. Seed inverse, orbicular or subglobose ; 

 testa coriaceous, exarillate ; embryo hooked; cotyledons linear, thin, 

 obtuse, broader than the slender ascending radicle. — Distrib. India, 

 Arabia and Africa ; species 3. 



1. Psilostachys sericea, Hoolc. f. in Benth. (^ Hool-. Gen. Plant, v. 3 

 (1880) p. 32. Herbaceous, erect, whole plant silky ; rootstock woody ; 

 stem hard below and, as well as the branches, clothed rather thinly 

 with long silky hairs which sometimes exceed 5 in. long. Leaves ^-1 

 by |-| in., broadly ovate, acute, sparsely silky-hairy above, densely so 

 beneath ; petioles very short. Flowers in 3-branched pedunculate 

 cymes, laxly spicately arranged near the tops of the cyme-branches ; 

 peduncles axillary, lk-2^ in. long ; branches of the cyme capillary, 

 |-2 in. long ; floAvers 2-8, sessile or very shortly pedicellate ; bracts 

 below the origin of the cyme-branches small, ovate-lanceolate, aristate, 

 often surrounded by tufts of silky hairs ; bracteoles below the flowers 

 A- in. long, ovate-lanceolate, very acute. Perianth g in. long, divided 

 to within -gL. in. of the base ; sepals 5, of equal length, the 3 outer 

 ovate-oblong, acute, strongly 3-nerved, hairy and ciliate, the 2 inner 

 sepals narrower than the outer. Utricle closely enclosed by the perianth, 

 thinly membranous, subglobose ; style short. Seed j\ in. in diam., 

 subglobose, smooth, shining, brown. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 720 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 364. yichi/ranthes sericea. Keen, in 

 Koxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1 (1832) p. 075 ; Wight, Icon. t. 726. Psihtrichnm 

 sericeum, Dalz. & Gibs, Bo. Fl. (1861) p. 216. — Flowers : Jan. 



Gujarat: Perim Island at the nioutli of the Narbada Eiver, Cookel, Baojil; coast 

 of Kathiawar, DalzelP. — Distrib. Apparently endemic. 



7. NOTHOS-ffiRUA, Wight. 



An annual herb with opixjsite brachiate branches. Leaves opposite. 

 Flowers minute, woolly, hermaphrodite, in axillary solitary or clustered 

 s])ikes, bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Perianth hyaline ; sepals 3 5, 

 obtuse, l-ni^rved. Stamens 1-2, hypogynous ; filaments free; stami- 

 nodes ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary oblong, compressed; ovule solitary, 

 ]H'ndulous from a long funicle ; style short ; stigma capitellate. Fruit 

 :i membranous oblong compressed utricle enclosed in the perianth. 



