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6. ACNIDA. Flowers dioecious. Sepals of the staminate flower 5, of the pistillate none. 



Stamens 5. 



TRIBE III. GOMPHRENE.33. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary 1-ovuled. Leaves opposite. 

 Stamens united below. 



7. IRESINE. Calyx 5-sepalous. Stamens united into a short cup. Sterile filaments none. 



8. ALTERNANTHERA. Calyx 5-sepalous. Stamens united into a cup. Sterile filaments 



tooth-like, entire. 



9. TELANTHERA. Calyx 5-sepalous. Stamens united into a tube. Sterile filaments cleft 



or fimbriate at the apex. 



10. FRCELICHIA. Calyx 5-cleft. Stamens wholly united. Anthers sessile. Sterile fila- 

 ments entire. 



1. CELOSIA, L. 



Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Sepals 5. Stamens 5, united at the base into 

 a cup. Sterile filaments none. Anthers 2-celled. Style short or elongated. 

 Stigmas 2-3, recurved. Utricle many-seeded, circumscissile. Smooth herbs 

 or shrubs, with alternate petioled leaves, and glossy flowers crowded in axillary 

 and terminal spikes or panicles. 



1. C. paniculata, L. Stem shrubby, erect ; leaves deltoid-ovate, acute, 

 abruptly petioled; spikes cylindrical, simple or branched, mostly shorter than 

 the leaves ; sepals oblong, rigid, several times longer than the bracts ; stigmas 

 3. South Florida. Leaves 2' long. Seeds minute, lenticular, shining. 



2. AMARANTUS, Tourn. AMARANTH. 



Flowers polygamo-moncecious, 3-bracted. Sepals 3-5. Stamens 3-5, free. 

 Sterile filaments none. Anthers oblong, 2-celled. Stigmas 2-3, slender, 

 spreading. Utricle 1-seeded, ovate, 2-3-toothed at the apex, circumscissile, 

 commonly included in the calyx. Radicle inferior. .Unsightly annual herbs, 

 with erect or diffuse stems, alternate mostly petioled entire mucronate leaves, 

 and greenish or purplish flowers, crowded in axillary and terminal spikes or 

 clusters. Bracts longer than the sepals. 



* Flowers in small axillary dusters : sepals and stamens 3. 



1. A. albus, L. Stem erect, branching from the base, smooth; leaves 

 small, long-petioled, oblong-obovate, very obtuse or emarginate, wavy at the 

 margins ; clusters shorter than the petioles ; sepals awl-pointed, much shorter 

 than the subulate spine-pointed spreading bracts, and half as long as the ru- 

 gose utricle. Cultivated grounds. May -Sept. Stem 1 high. Leaves 

 i'-l'long. 



* * Flowers (green) crowded in terminal and axillary spikes: sepals and 

 stamens 5 : haves loncj-petioled. 



2. A. chlorostachys, Willd. Stem erect, furrowed, pubescent ; leaves 

 ovate or rhombic-ovate, obtuse, the veins beneath pubescent ; spikes very nu- 

 merous, forming a long leafy and more or less dense panicle ; sepals lanceolate, 

 acute, scarcely half as long as the subulate bracts, shorter than the rugose 

 utricle. Cultivated ground, common. August -Sept. Stem 2 -4 high. 

 Leaves 2' - 4' long, twice as long as the petiole. 



3. A. hybridllS, L. Smooth or nearly so; stem erect, branching; 

 leaves thin, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, the pale veins prominent beneath ; 



