K; cvi. amarantace.*: (baker and clarke). [Deeinngia. 



Fruit-perianth patent, obtuse . 

 Leaves sessile .... 

 Large scandent slirubs 

 Leaves mere scales, less than ^ in. long 

 Anthers 1-celled. i^pikes dense, ovoid or short - 

 cylindric. 

 Spikes axillary, sessile. 



Fruit not, or obscurely flattened . 

 Fruit very flat, winged .... 

 Spikes terminal, often sessile — i.e., sui)ported 

 by 2 floral leaves, 

 Staminal tube minute. Plnnt glabrous 

 Stiiminal tube ^ in. long. Plant hairy 



1. DEERINGIA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 23. 



Flowers 2-sexual ; bract 1 ; bracteoles 2, small, not prickly. Perianth 

 5-fid, glabrous-; segments spreading in fruit. Stamens 5 ; filaments 

 united below into a tube, linear ; interjected teeth U ; anthers 2-celled, 

 oblong. Ovary with several ovules ; style hardly any ; stigmas '^. 

 Fruit a globose many-seeded berry. Seeds lenticular ; embryo annular ; 

 testa crustaceous. — Rambling or climbing shrubs, nearly smooth. 

 Leaves alternate, entire. Racemes lax, leafless, axillary and penulti- 

 mate ; pedicels solitary, very shoit. 



Species 6, in Africa, South Asia and Oceania. 



1. D. celosioides, /.*. 7^^-. y'ro^/?-. 413. Nearly glabrous. Branches 

 arching, sometimes 1(» ft. long. Leaves ;5-4 in. long, ovate, acuminate; 

 petiole ^-1 in. long. Racemes 4-!^ in. long, often several towards the 

 ends of the branches, panicled. Perianth whitish ; segments \ in. 

 long. Berry V in. in diam., globose, red. — Bot. Mag. t. 2717. D. 

 haccata, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 23('. ; Schinz in Engl, c^ Prnntl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, '.)7, 98, t. 40 ; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 7. 

 Celosia baccata, Retz. Obs. v. 23. 



xrile Xiand. British Knst Africa : near Lake Baringo, 3400 ft., Johnston! 



Ziower Guinea. Princes Island, Barter, 2009 I 



Frequent in South-east Asia, 



2. CELOSIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 24. 



Flowers 2-sexual ; bract 1 ; bracteoles 2, small, not prickly. Perianth 

 5-fid, scarious ; segments oblong or elliptic, obtuse or subacute. Stamens 

 5 ; filaments subulate in the upper part, united at the base into a 

 cylindric cup ; interjected teeth n or minute bristles ; anthers 2-celled, 

 oblong or round ; pollen small, lU-20 /x in diam., globose, with few 

 (small or large) tubercles. Ovary ovoid ; ovules 2 or more on basal 

 funicles ; style long or short, 3-fid or 2-fid. Capsule ovoid or oblong, 

 or (in 2 species) wide at the top, several-seeded (but in C. nana and 

 C. populifolia 1 -seeded), membranous, circumscissile. Seeds lenticular ; 

 embryo annular ; testa crustaceous, shining, brown-black, smooth (never 



