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euthguents with the whole lamina scarious, coloured 
and glabro 5. PriLoTUs. 
Leaves Emo. OM s united in a E at the base, with 
cate teeth or lobes between the fi 
Flower wers 5-merous, in terminal ener; spikes. Bracts and 
perianth-segments acute 6. ACHYRANTHES. 
Flowers eos i in axillary or terminal spikes shortened T d 
heads. Bracts and perianth-segments spine 7. NyssANTHES. 
an 3. Gomphrenese.— Anthers 1-celled. Ovary x with a E ovule. Leaves 
Signs m. Spikes often shortened into heads, axillary (rarel : 
term d ; 7t 7s. ALTERNANTHERA. 
Sie Pis Spikes often shortened into heade, terminal or 
rarely axil 9. GoMPHRENA. 
S ries the xd the Siero species described by F. Mueller cannot be refe 
It is evidently not a Psilo- 
filaments might, with the opposite leaves, refer it to Gomphrena, but 
"new i having 1 ex placed in Tritickum we are led to suppose that the anthers were 
il erm F. Muell. Fragm. i. 238. A glabrous erect or ascendin 
] 1 i ; : 
nearly globular, Bracteoles finely oie i peneriies 8 butt than the perianth, 
: in 
Trige 1, CELOSIE.—Anthers 2-celled. Ovary with several ovules. 
Leaves altern nate. 
1. DEERINGIA, R. Br. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or dicecious. Mains z e: 5 m glabrous 
p 
. Fruit enlarg 
: ody climbers, gabe or rusty- ubescent. Leaves Movie. rt 
nth oosely spicate, the spikes in axillary or te terminal panicle 
and bracteoles s mall, scarious or petal-like. in 
s genus is widely spread t lA re sparingly extending into Africa. 
ide fw er Aur ustralian ¢ raka pie bella pots the po da Asiatic one, the other 
on Flowers he ermaph D. celosioides. 
n 
rodite 
and ries 
s males vi Ce scis ao Flowers diccious (the o ova SD dtiithd: 
1 D. cel limber 
i es, R. Br. Prod. 418. A dr glabrous clim 
| Falling over b over ma to the DE of 10 or 12 ft. mew to Aus- 
