GENERA AND SPECIES. 
No scales between the filaments. 
Erect glabrous herb with linear 
or linear-lanceolate leaves 
An intricately slender-branching 
hairy herb; leaves minute, ovate 
or lanceolate 
Leaves small rhomboid-ovate ; 
bracts and bracteoles glabrous, 
ovate-lanceolate ; WH ioe mab 
short é 
1. Calyx segments wholly coloured and fae 
rous, enveloped in dense cottony wool. 
Spikes cylindrical ; leaves oblong ; Broa ate branch- 
ing glabrous herb ... 
Spikes globular; leaves meni ane beeen 
herb, covered with cottony wool : 
Achyranthes. 
An erect spreading herb, 2 to 3 feet ; leaves ovate 
to oblong, ee stalked, softly SO ecitale 
flowers green : 
Alternanthera. 
Glabrous herb with narrow leaves ; calyx-segments 
and bracteoles 14 line long, with finely pointed 
tips; spikes in dense clusters 
Hairy; leaves broad; calyx-segments and in eae 
shorter; spikes finally cylindrical 
Gomphrena. 
An erect branching annual, hoary ; leaves linear ; 
spikes globular ; calyx very woolly outside ; 
staminal tube shorter than the ovary with 
lobes between the filaments 7 
ORDER PLUMBAGINEAE. 
Plumbago. 
leucocoma 
paruifolius 
Hoodii 
Murrayi 
latifolius 
aspera 
triandra 
nana 
Browniti 
Calyx beset with short viscid hairs. A half-climbing glabrous 
shrub ; flowers white, sessile within 3 bracts 
ORDER NYCTAGINEAE. 
Boerhaavia. 
Zeylanica 
Herbs ; flowers in umbels ; calyx viscid-hairy ; stamens | to 4. 
Prostrate ; leaves orbicular-lanceolate ; upper BATH of hs BNE 
bell- shaped, pink, about 1 line diameter 
diffusa 
