Cdosia.] CVI. AMARANTACEiE (bAKER AND CLARKE). 17 



even microscopically tubercular. — Annuals or undershrubs, erect or 

 rambling ; young parts and inflorescence usually minutely and sparingly 

 hairy. Leaves alternate, petioled, mostly ovate-lanceolate, entire or 

 (in C. pandurata) lobed. Cymes or flower-clusters, usually forming a 

 leafless very narrow panicle or pseudospike, axillary or terminal or 

 panicled. 



Species 40, in the warmer parts of the world. 



The bract and bracteoles are pointed when the perianth-segments are pointed ; 

 and obtuse when the perianth-segments are rounded. The seeds in all the species 

 have similar cells on the surface arranged in a similar semi-annular way ; they are 

 more or less conspicuous as the seeds were more or less ripened, and as the examples 

 were more or less gradually dried. 

 *Lestibudesia. Style 3-fid. 



Perianth J in. long. Spikes dense, continuous . 1. C. argentea. 

 Perianth much less than \ in. long. 



Style at least \ the length of the young 

 capsule. 

 Leaves spathulate, elliptic-lanceolate . 2. C. laxa. 

 Leaves narrowly oblong . . . . 3. C. cuneifoUa, 



Style hardly any 4. C. trigyna. 



♦•Ett-Celosia. Style 2-fid. 



tCapsule several-seeded J l-seeded capsules 

 very rare. 

 Style distinct, with rather long ascending 

 branches. 

 Panicles reduced to rather dense pseudo- 

 spikes. 

 Leaves pandurate, lower sub-S-lobed . 5. C. ^pandurata. 

 Leaves entire, ovate. 



Capsule \ in. long. . . . 6. C. loandensis. 

 Capsule ^ in. long. . . . 7. C. macrocarpa. 



Spikes axillary, slender, linear, interrupted 8. C. stuhlmanniana. 

 Style very short or obsolete. 

 Flowers small ; perianth ^ in. Ions:. Cap- 

 sule longer than the perianth. 

 Capsule narrowed at the top; style 



visible 9. C. schtveinfurthiana. 



Capsule clavate at the top ; stigmas 



alone visible .... 10. C. acroprosodes. 

 Flowers very small ; perianth yV~iV in* 

 long. Capsule included in the peri- 

 anth. 

 Leaves 2-4 in. long; inflorescence 



white 11. C. staticodes. 



Leaves 2 in. long ; inflorescence pale 



brown 12. C. leptostachya. 



Leaves less than 1 in. long; inflores- 

 cence white . . . . . 13. C. minutiflora. 

 If Capsule l-seeded. 



Leaves hardly ^ in. long . . .14. C. nana. 

 Leaves 2-3 in. long . . . 15. C populifolia. 



1. C. argentea, Linn. Sp, PL ed. 1, 205, ed. 2, 296. A glabrescent 

 branched annual, 1-4 ft. high. Leaves alternate, variable in size and 



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