372 AMARANTACEAE, | Nototrichium. 
small ovoid, about %/4‘ long, subsessile, terminal and in the axils of the 
two uppermost leaves; the rhachis villous. Flowers glabrous, patent, 2“ 
long, coriaceous. Lateral bracts broadly ovate, mucronulate, 1/2 or "/s as 
long as the flowers. Sepals 5, lanceolate-acute, 3-nerved at the base. 
Stamens 5, 2/s the length of the sepals, connate below in a cup and 
alternating with broad staminodes of their own length which are truncate 
and deeply torn into 3—4 laciniae, Style as long as the sepals; stigma 
ap 
i (Remy 208). — The Oahu specimen referred mai *, Gray is Nototrichium 
Mealy pss which the present species bears a great resemblan iray observes that this 
eit which seems to combine Moquin’s second and third aaa of Achyranthes, is 
# pentamerous congener of Brown’s A. arborescens from Norfolk Island. See remarks 
under the following genus. 
2. NOTOTRICHIUM, gen. noy. 
Flowers pea tribracteate, small, conical, hispid-villous or 
nee Perianth or calyx deeply 4-parted, the sepals equal, no 
wned, an outer pair hans # the inner one. Stamens 4, slightly con- 
ica at the base; anthers 2-celled, affixed near the apex, the cells 
divergent at the base: Staminodes none, Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovulate. 
Ovule erect, anatropous; style gruel some ae Fruit an ine 
or obovoid thin utricle which breaks transversely at a late period, en- 
closed in the perianth. Seed ous with a thin testa penarend 
the embryo spiral round mealy albumen; the cotyledons broader an 
longer than the superior radicle. — Shrubs or trees, with dichotomous 
branches. Leaves opposite, penni-nerved. Flowers sessile, suberect, in 
terminal and axillary spikes with a woolly or pubescent rhachis; the 
bracts short, not awned, the os persistent. — Ptilotus, sect. Noto- 
trichium, Seay, in Bot. U.S. E. Evi 
Gray, in uniting the first species of fo genus with the Australian bhycays fost nats 
in which again he inclndes the East Indian genus Psilotrichium, BI. o have ove 
looked th ich I f 
n descri agreement in ss 
the same differences hold good also with regard to cote eran Both genera com ae 
only herbaceous or at most suffruticose ante while those ay mee se decid : : 
shrubby or eyen arboreous; se as ss wig shrubs are of rare occurrence in this tite : 
; per to point out the relationship which exists cee our gen : 
nd the ional ‘wlio (hehyrnst) of Achyranthes, fe . arbor sce 
from Norfolk awa which also has a quadri us flower. Small staminodes in 
latter and short its bracts, with an iebthlanoat utriele, pauaroin ‘all the difference. 
Byend hg “pi Ho 
id alicvaaa: silvery- or fulvo-tomentose underneath ; gee 
amen neg sty about as long as: the peria 1. N. Sandwicense. 
seagen rote oe n both — ~— glabrate; stamens and 
; beste dant uss leaves elabrons brownish when ary; p 
and stigma very short 3. N. humile. 
