GENERA AND SPECIES. 
ORDER AMARANTACEAE. 
I. Leaves alternate ; anthers 2-celled. 
Stamens free ; flowers in axillary cymes 
Stamens shortly united at the base. 
Flowers axillary, SREY: ; leaves linear, succu- 
lent : 
Flowers in dense eee or erry leaves flat ; 
calyx-segments wholly or in part coloured ... 
11. Leaves opposite; anthers 2-celled. 
Stamens shortly united in a cup at the base; flowers 
in terminal elongated spikes 
11. Leaves opposite ; anthers 1-celled. 
Flowers in axillary clusters, stigma capitate 
Flowers in terminal heads, stigma 2-lobed ... 
Euxolus. 
Annual, erect, rather stout, branching; leaves 
ovate- lanceolate, long- stalked ; Boxee globu- 
lar, ribbed ... : oe ai Ean we 
Polyenemon. 
Stamens 5; a glabrous prostrate perennial herb, 
with numerous ascending branches, forming 
dense tufts ... 
Stamens 2, unilateral ; undershrubs. 
Style very short, bifid ; sepals white inside 
Style entire ; sepals large, all scarious ... 
Ptilotus. 
1. Calyx-segments with scarious glabrous tips, 
more or less covered on the outside 
with jointed hairs (‘Trichinum). 
Leaves clothed with a dense stellate tomentum. 
An erect undershrub 1 to 4 ft.; spikes dense 
ovoid ; bracts and bracteoles usually brown, 
obtuse, glabrous; leaves thick, obovate or 
oblong, on long stalks ... 
Leaves thin and less densely tomentose ; bracts 
woolly ; 
Leaves glabrous, or hairy, or i 
Inner segments of calyx woolly inside; segments 
erect, pink or red. Perennial herbs with 
erect stems. 
Spikes 14 to 2 in. diameter. 
Euxolus 
Polyenemon 
Ptilotus 
Achyranthes 
Alternanthera 
Gomphrena 
Mitchelli 
pentandrum 
diandrum 
mesembrianthemum 
obovatus 
incanus 
