NoTHos&RvA.] AMARANTACEA. 17 
sometimes crowded into globular clusters ; bracteoles ovate, concave, 
apiculate. Perianth yy in. long, oblong, obtuse and often apiculate, 
silkily hairy on the back. Ultricle ovoid, acute. Seeds black and 
shining. 
An abundant weed over the greater portion of the area. Dusrris.: 
Throughout the hotter parts of India and up to 3,000 ft. on the hills ; 
also in Ceylon, extending to Arabia, Trop. Africa, Java and the 
Philippines. ‘this plant 1s in general appearance very similar to, 
and may easily be mistaken for, Nothoserva brachiata. The woolly 
spikes are often used for stuffing pillows. Nols (uae 
#. Monson, Mart. ; F. B. I. iv, 728; Prain Beng. Pl. 874; Cooke 
Fl. Bomb. vi, £93. Achyranthes Monsonia, Pers. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 
673.—This species will very probably be found growing within the 
dry southern border of the area of this flora. It iscommonin Chota- 
Nagpur, W. Bengal, in C. and W. India, as wellas in Burma. Leaves 
filiform, in fascicles ; flowers in peduncled spikes, 2-sexual, pale pink ; 
perianth-segments 4. 
6, NOTHOSERUA, Wight; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 726. 
An annual with opposite spreading branches. Leaves opposite 
Flowers very minute, 2-sexual, woolly, arranged in axillary solitary 
or clustered spikelets, bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Sepals 3-5, 
hyaline, obtuse, l-nerved. Stamens usually 2, free; anthers 2- 
celled ; staminodes none. Ovary oblong, compressed ; stigma. 
subsessile, capitellate ; ovule solitary, pendulous from a long basal 
funicle. Fruit a membranous oblong compressed utricle, enclosed 
within the perianth. Seed inverse, lenticular; testa crustaceous ; 
embryo hooked, surrounding floury albumen ; cotyledons linear, 
radicle superior. A single species, found in Asia and in Trop. 
Africa. 
N. brachiata, Wight Ic. vi.1; F. B. I. iv, 726; Watt E. D.; 
Cooke Fl. Bomb. vi, 495. Pseudanthus brachiatus, Wight Ic. v, t. 
1776 (excl. analysis), and vi, t. 1776 bis, fig. B. 
An erect slender herb, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous or minutely puberulous. 
Stem branched from the base, branches spreading. Leaves thinly 
membranous, }-14 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, 
tapering to the base; petiole short or obscure. Flowers sessile, 
glistening-white, crowded in smal! dense axillary subsessile cylindric 
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