498 CII. AMARANTACE.15. 



Leaves 1^-4 by |-2 in., elliptic or ovate, acute or acuminate, finely 

 apiculate, tomeutose on both sides, ciliate, base rounded or shortly 

 cuiieate ; main nerves numerous, conspicuous beneath ; petioles yV~4 

 in. long. Flowers in close or distant clusters forming terminal spikes 

 4-10 in. long ; rbachis tomentose, with a number of ovate acuminate 

 pungent villous bracts i-^ in. long, which remain on the rhachis after 

 the flowers fall; outer bracteole beneath the cluster ^^ by | in., mem- 

 branous, broad, concave, ovate-oblong, apiculate ; imperfect flowers 

 reduced to a number of unequal glabrous hooked awns, enlarged, stel- 

 lately spreading and yellow in fruit, each cluster of awns during the 

 flowering period supported by a lanceolate acute 3-nerved aristute 

 bracteole nearly i in. long. Perianth 4 in. long ; sepals lanceolate, 

 aristate, 3-nerved, densely clothed with white wool. Utricle mem- 

 branous, very thin, oblong, suddenly and shortly tapering at the apex 

 into the style. Seed y^g bv yV in., ellipsoid, compressed, smooth and 

 shilling, black. Fl. B. I. v." 4, p. 724 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 219 ; ^Yoodr. iu 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 364; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 872.— 

 Flowers : Aug.-Nov. 



Deccan : Dongergaoii neai- Ahmednagar, Cooke ! S. M. Country : B;idami, Cooke, !, 

 Woodrowl; Eelgaiim, Ritchie, 626! Gujarat: Kathiawar, Dulzell Sf Gibson; 

 Chanipanir, Woudrowl; DiAor, Kaiiifk'/r I Sikd : Jemadar ka Landa near Karachi, 

 Stocks! — DisTKiB. India (Behar, Panjab, W. Tropical Himalaya, W. Peninsula); 

 Ti-opical Asia and Africa. 



3. Pupalia orbiculata, Wir/7it, Icon. (1852) t. 1783. Stem woody 

 at the base, often prostrate, stout, with long opposite branches, pubes- 

 cent. Leaves rather thick, |-1| in. in diam., broadly elliptic or 

 orbicular, obtuse, very shortly apiculate, sometimes notched, more or 

 less hairy, suddenly tapering into the petiole which is short or obscure. 

 Flowers in distant clusters forming stout spikes 4-8 in. long ; rhachis 

 pubescent, with persistent lanceolate acute aristate bracts § in. long ; 

 outer bracteole of the flower-cluster g by -^ in., ovate, acute, villous, 

 3-nerved ; imperfect flowers reduced to hooked glabrous awns, which 

 are enlarged, spreading, and pale-brown in fruit, each clusti-r of awns at 

 flowering time supported by a rigid lanceolate spinous-pointed narrow 

 glabrous bracteole g-^ in. long. Perianth I in. long ; sepals lanceolate, 

 shortly aristate, clothed with white wool, and with 3 broad nerves. 

 Utricle oblong, obtuse, suddenly and very shortly attenuated into the 

 style at the very apex, very thinly membranous. Seeds -^ by -^^ iu., 

 oblong-ellipsoid, compressed, smooth and shining, black. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 724 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 219 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 400 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 364. 



Konkan: The Ghats, DhIscU ^- Gibson. Sind : Woodrow. — DisTitin. India (W. 

 Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



11. ALTERN ANTHER A, Forsk. 



Herbs, usually prostrate. Leaves opposite. Flowers ^-orninpltrodite, 

 small, white, in axillary often clustered heads, bracteate and 2-bracteo- 

 late. Perianlh-segments 5, unequal, tlie 2 lateral innermost and 

 concave. Stamens 2-5; filaments short, connate in a cup with or 

 without intervening staminodes; authers 1-celled. Ovary suborbicular 



