16 AMARANTACEA. [Airua. 
stigma. Frm. flowers: Perianth 7, in. long. Sepals subacute, api- 
culate. Stigmas 2, equalling the style. Uéricle broadly ovoid. 
Seeds dark-brown and shining. 
Abundant in the dry western and south-western portions of the area,. 
also in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and N. Oudh. 
Distriz.: Punjab, Rajputana, Sind, Central India and southwards 
through the W. Peninsula to Ceylon, also in Burma and Baluchistan, 
extending to Arabia, ‘i‘'rop. Africa and the Cape de Verde Islands. 
Edgeworth insists that his #. Bovii is a distinct species. It has much 
narrower leaves and is sweet-scented, whilst 4. javanica, which grows 
with it, is not. Bossier regarded it as a variety. 1 have seen no 
specimens from the area of this flora. 
2. HE. seandens, Wall. Cat. 6911; Royle Ill. 320; F. B. I. w, 
727; Watt. E. D.; Collett Fl. Siml. 414; Prain Beng. Pl. 874; 
Cooke Fl. Bomb. wi, 492. Achyranthes scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
t, 676. 
A climbing undershrub with long hoary tomentose branches. Leaves 
alternate and opposite, 14-4 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, 
obtuse or acute and mucronate, glabrous or softly hairy, base taper- 
ing into a short petiole. Flowers silvery-white, 2-sexual, arranged in 
ovoid or cylindric axillary and terminal subsessile white-woolly 
spikes 4-1 in. long, the spikes often in pairs and forming a lax terminal 
panicle ; bracteoles shorter than the sepals, ovate, acuminate. 
Perianth 3; in. long. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate. Ultricle broadly 
ovate, acute. Seeds lenticular, black and shining. 
Common in most parts of the area in waste ground, and often found 
climbing amongst bushes. DisTris.: Plains of Upper India from 
the Punjab to Bengal and Assam; outer Himalayan ranges from 
Kumaon to Bhutan up to 5,000 ft., also in C. and W. India and ex- 
tending to China, Malay Islands, Philippines and Trop. Africa. 
3. 4. lanata, Juss. in Mus. Par. ii, 131; F. B. I. w, 728 ; 
Watt EH. D.; Prain Beng. Pl. 874; Cooke Fl. Bomb. wu, 493. 
Achyranthes lanata, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 676. 
An erect or prostrate undershrub. Branches many from a stout woody 
rootstock, terete and striate, pubescent or woolly. Leaves petioled, 
alternate, -1 in. long, those of the branches smaller, elliptic-obovate 
or suborbicular, obtuse or acute, entire, pubescent above and usually 
white-woolly beneath. Flowers minute, greenish-white, sessile, l-or 
2-sexual, arranged in small dense axillary heads or spikes which are 
