258 XCVII. AMARANTACEJE. [ Gomphrena, 
axillary and terminal, quite glabrous, about 2 lines diameter, at first 
mer and conical, at length i ede and d in. long.  Bracts short 
oer nth and deciduous with it. Perianth-segments quite glabrous, 
scarcely 1 line long, « Dp se, Nite, shortly green at the base. Stamin 
tube shorter than ovary, truncate; filaments but slightly dilated, 
without ccr wed orlobes. Style very shor 
N. Australia. Regent river, N.W. coast, A. e oz ? “Port Darwin, Schulz. 
Order XCVII. PARONYCHIACEJE. 
margins, imbricate in the bud. " Stamens as many as Horis 
and mcns to them or fewer by abortion, with or without interven- 
ing teeth lobes or m in usually — — petal-like or 
perfect stamina. Ovary l-celled with 1 ovule attached to a funicle 
erect from the base ^ the cavity. Style more or em divided into 2 or 
3 branches or separate styles, stigmatic at the end or along the inner 
edge. Fruita m indere indehiscent utricle enclosed in or resting 
n the persistent perianth. Seed usually vertical, ohini or ovate 
ompressed ; te 0 
albume 
much branched. Leave s opposite or rarely alternate, entire, accom- 
panied by small scarious stipules or connected by a raised line oF 
narrow membrane. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal cymes, 
sometimes reduced to dense clusters or rarely solitary. Bracts ts small, 
usually scarious; bracteoles only under solitary flowers or the termin 
flower of the cymes 
A small Order, na dispersed ed C SE eda and cooler rta of the is : 
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only Australian genus is common th both the kortida and southern  cratropical f 
gions of the Old World. The Order is undistinguishable from Amarantace® by any - 
which in Amarantace: are IA n and tine arent are in Paronye 
various, sometimes thin and transparent, much Hr are 
eis the European Seleranthi) c an into petals (in Corrigiola); in both Orders they 
requently deficien 
1. SCLERANTHUS, Linn. 
(Mniarum, Forst.) 
Perianth-tube as long as the lobes, somewhat eat and T 
S 
after flowering. Stamens 5 or fewer, o posite the lobes, connected 
a membrane or raised line at the mou th of 
of the peria anth-tube, 
