6 AMARANTACEZ. [ DEERINGIA. 
ovules few or many, on long funicles. Fruit a small globose berry 
seated on the persistent spreading perianth. Seeds few or many, 
reniform, compressed ; testa black, shining, aril none; embryo 
annular, surrounding the floury albumen; cotyledons linear, 
_racicle descending. Species 5-6, in Asia, Australia and the Pacific 
Islands, and one in Madagascar. 
D. celosioides, R. Br. Prod. 413; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1, 682 ; Royle 
Ill. 320; F. B. I. iv, 714; Kanyilal For. Fl. ed. 2, 323; Gamble 
Man. 550; Collett Fl. Siml. 412; Prain Beng. Pl. 866; Brand. 
Ind. Trees 518. Cladostachys frutescens, Don Prod. 76 (excl. syn.) 
Vern. Latman (Hind.), chundri (Dehra Dun). 
A climbing shrub with long slender arching striate branches ; bark thin, 
rough, dark-grey. Leaves 2-4 in. long, ovate or broadly lanceolate, 
acuminate, entire; base rounded or acute, rarely cordate, petiole 
4-4 in. long. Flowers small, pale yellowish-green, shortly pedicelled, 
arranged in simple or branching racemes 4-10 in. long and forming 
terminal panicles, bracts acute. Styles usually 3. Berry globose, 
4-1 in. in diam., supported by the persistent spreading perianth- 
segments, scarlet when ripe. Seeds usually 3. 
Found in hedges and on the outskirts of forests in Dehra Dun and 
eastwards in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and N. Oudh. 
It flowers during Sep. and Oct., and in the cold season the panicles 
of scarlet berries render it a conspicuous object. DisTris. : Subtrop. 
Himalaya from the Sutlej to Bhutan, up to 5,000 ft.; also in Chota 
Nagpur, Assam, the Khasia Hills, Bengal and Upper Burma; ex- 
tending to the Malay Islands, China and Australia. Kanjilal states 
that the juice of the fruit can be used as a substitute for red ink. 
2. CELOSIA, Linn. ; FI. Brit. Ind. iv, 714. 
Usually annual herbs, the stems often woody below. Leaves 
alternate, usually petioled. Flowers 2-sexual, in dense terminal 
and axillary spikes, sessile or shortly pedicelled, white or coloured ; 
bracts and bracteoles scarious, shining. Perianth-segments 5, 
connate below, scarious, erect in fruit. Stamens 5, filaments 
united below in a membranous cup; anthers 2-celled ; staminodes 
none. Ovary 1-celled, containing 2 or more ovules attached to 
long funicles ; styles short or long or none, sometimes elongating 
in fruit ; stigmas simple or 2-3, subulate. Fruit a circumscissile 
