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Achyranthes. | AMARANTACEAE. 371 
1. A, splendens, Mart. — DC. Prod. XII, Sect. IT, p. 316. — Suffruti- 
cose, 2—3 ft. high, divaricately branching, canescent with an appressed 
silky tomentum. Leaves rather thick and faintly curved, obovate or o 
ceolate, with the petioles 2—4/>< 3/4—1'/«‘, shortly acuminate or mucronate, 
cuneate at the base, greenish but silky above, silvery or pale fulvous 
underneath. Flowers stramineous, slender, ovoid-elongate, 4—5", glabrous, 
een patent and close on the thick, ia villous, foveolate 
rh of a terminal spike, which is 6—12‘ g when full grown and 
aad +“ the base for '!/2—1‘ only. saints ‘aces about half the a 
of the flower, broadly-ovate, the single nerve excurrent in a stiff a 
about the same length as its blade. Sepals narrow lanceolate, side, the 
outer ones 3-nerved. Stamens connate in a deep cup, half as long as 
the perianth or more. Staminodes little shorter, broad oblong, laciniate 
or fimbriate at the apex. Utricle ovate-oblong, 1'/2—2", truncate and 
<a at the apex. 
i! common in Kula, Lion of Lahaina, on ridges of Wailuku; Lanai! sometimes 
the chen silvery on both fae 
B var. rotundata. — Leaves obovate, broadly rounded, silvery on both 
faces. Flowers 3—4“ 
Oahu! Waianae and tage Kaena, near the sea. 
ar. refleca. — Leaves as in 8. Rhachis of spike thick, densely woolly. 
eh ovoid, 3‘, angular, pea Bg reflexed at an early ein hard, 
almost cartilaginous. Lateral bracts ovate, oblique pie callous at the 
ase, '/2—2/s the length of "the flower, the very stiff median nerve not 
prolonged into an awn. Outer sepals 5-nerved. Staminodes as before. 
Molokai! pali of oe pa. The eh approaches closely to the Australo-Poly- 
hesian A. canescens, R. Br. (A. velutina, H. & A.). 
2. A. bidentata, Bl. — DC. Prod. 1. c. p. 312. — Habit as before. Leaves 
elliptico-oblong, 2—2t/2’ 3/4‘, acuminate at both ends, pubescent or 
glabrate, dull green on both faces. A single terminal spike, 6’ long, 
with a slender pubescent rhachis, naked below for 1—l je‘, loosely flowered, 
the flowers horizontally patent, slender, 3—3'/2‘ long, shining. Lowest 
bract lanceolate, 11/2‘; lateral bracts nearly as long as the flower, a long 
. and stiff deflected awn rising from a very short ('/2") truncate or bidentate 
blade. Sepals linear-lanceolate, faintly nerved. Stamens and staminodes 
as before. — The description from Remy’s specimen. — Gray, in mss. 
. 8. E. E. — Mann, Enum. no. 420. 
Lanai (Remy 209). — The species has been found also in Jaya and Nepaul. 
mutica, Gray, in Bot. U.S.E. Exp. (ined). — Mann, Enum. no. 418. — 
Shrubby, much branched, Leaves — spathulate, or almost lanceolate, 
Bi fa<-? 1/2—3/4‘, obtuse, attenuate at the base, on petioles of 1/2”, 
es 
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ies and green on both faces, celal brown when dry. Spi 
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