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Sepals 5 to 6 mm. long, prominently nerved. 



Leaf blades hastately lobed ; stigmas 2 1. C. palmeri. 



Leaf blades not lobed ; stigmas 3. 



Seeds 5 to 8 : leaf blades ovate to lanceolate, deairrent nearly to the base 



of the petiole 2. C. virgata. 



Seeds about 20 ; leaf blades deltoid to triangular-lanceolate, sliort-decurrent. 



3. C. nitida. 

 Sepals 3 mm. long or less, obscurely nerved. 

 Leaf blades, at least most of them, hastately lobed. puberulent beneath. 



4. C. floribunda. 

 Leaf blades entire, glabrous. 



Flowers pedicellate 7. C. chiapensis. 



Flowers sessile. 



Fruit stipitate; sepals dark brown 5. C. nioquini. 



Fruit sessile; sepals stramineous 6. C. orcuttii. 



1. Celosia palmeri S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 18: 163. 1883. 



Coahuila, Nuevo Le6n, and San Luis Potosi ; type from Monclova, Coahuila. 

 Western Texas. 



Low shrub, much branched, glabrous except about the inflorescence; leaves 

 lanceolate or lance-triangular, 1.5 to 5 cm. long; spikes 1 to 2 cm. long; seeds 

 3 or 4. 



2. Celosia virgata Jacq. Coll. Bot. 2: 279. 1788. 



Veracruz and Yucatan. Cuba and Porto Rico; northern South America. 

 Plants suffrutescent, 0.5 to 1 meter high ; leaves ovate or lanceolate ; flower 

 spikes 1 to 5 cm. long. 



3. Celosia nitida Vahl. Symb. Bot. 3: 44. 1794. 



San Luis Potosf to Yucatan. West Ind'es, western Texas, and northern 

 South America. 



Plants fruticose below, the slender stems erect or clambering over other 

 plants, glaJbrous; leaves 2 to 7 cm. long. "Abanico " (Colombia). 



Used in IMartinique as a remedy for dysentery. 



4. Celosia floribunda A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 5: 167. 1861. 

 Southern Baja California ; type from the vicinity of Cape San Lucas. 

 Shrub, 4 meters high or less ; leaves 3 to 18 cm. long ; spikes 2 to 15 cm. long. 



5. Celosia moquini Guillem. ; Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13^ 239. 1849. 

 Southern IMexico, the localities not definitely "known. 



Leaves 15 to 30 cm. long ; flower spikes arranged in large panicles. 



6. Celosia orcuttii Greenm. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 330. 1912. 

 Colima, the type from the city of Colima. 



Leaves 6 to 17 cm. long, acute. 



Rather doubtfully distinct from the last species. 



7. Celosia chiapensis T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 363. 1917. 

 Chiapas ; type from Finca Irlanda. 



Glabrous shrub; leaves slender-petiolate. lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 9 to 

 14 cm. long, acuminate. 



2. CHAMISSOA H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 190. 1817. 

 1. Chamissoa altissima (.Lacq.) H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 197. 1817. 



Achyranthcs altissima Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 17. 1762. 



Sinaloa to Tamaulipas, Tabasco and Oaxaca. Central America. West Imlies, 

 and northern South America ; type from Jamaica. 



