CI. AMARANTACEiE. 317 



2. HERMBSTJEDTIA, llcich. 



Characters as in Celosia, except that elonp^ate, 2-fid stami- 

 nodia alternate with the perfect stamens, which are united at 

 base into a short tube. — DC. Prod. x\\\. pt. 2. p. 240. 



South African undershrubs, erect, branching, ghuicous. Leaves alternate. 

 Flowers in long spikes or terminal heads ; bracts coloured. — 3 species, in 

 Catlraria and at Natal. 



Tribe 2. Aciiyraxtiteje. (Gen. 3-10.) 



3. AMARANTUS, Tourn. 



Flowers polygamo-monoecious, 3-bracted. Calyx 5- rarely 

 3-parted ; segments equal, erect, glabrous. Stamens 5-3, free; 

 filaments subulate ; no staminodia ; anthers 2 -celled. Ovary 

 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; style ; stigmas 2-3, subulate, spreading. 

 Fruit ovate, 2-3-beaked, splitting across the middle, 1-sceded. 

 Seed vertical. — DQ. Prod. x\\i. pt. 2. p. 255. 



Herbs, often weeds, throughout the tropics and warmer zones. Leaves 

 alternate. Flowers small, purplish or green, in panicled spikes or glome- 

 rules. — A. Thunhergiiy Moq., and A. Blitum, Linn., diffused. 



4. PSILOTRICHUM, Bl. 



Flowers bisexual, 3-bracted. Calyx 5-parted ; segments 

 subequal, erect, glabrous or villovis. Stamens 5, in a short 

 cup ; filaments filiform; staminodia ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 

 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; style long ; stigma capitate. Fruit ovate, 

 indehiscent, 1-seeded, quite hidden in the closed calyx. — DC. 

 Prod. ^Yii.pt. 2. p. 279. 



Herbs or undershrubs, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves opposite, petioled, 

 entire. Flowers in terminal or axillar}- spikes. — 1 tropical species, pro- 

 bably Eastern. 



5. TRICHINIUM, R. Br. 



Flow^ers bisexual, 3-bracted. Calyx 5-parted; segments 

 subequal or unequal, erect, at length spreading at the tip, 

 villous-plumose. Stamens 5, combined in a cup or tube ; no 

 staminodia; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; style 

 long ; stigma capitate. Fruit obovate or ovate, valveless, 1- 

 seeded, enclosed in the connivent base of the plumose-tipped 

 calyx.— i)(7. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p. 297. 



Herbs or underslnnibs, chiefly Australian, many of great beauty. — T. Zeif- 

 heri, Moq., our only species, has tufted or opposite, narrow linear, glabrous, 

 pale green leaves, and pale brown flowers, witli wliite, silky long hairs. 



6. JERVA, Forsk. 



Flowers bisexual, 3-bractcd. Calyx 5-parted, the segments 

 equal, erect, woolly. Stamens 5, united in a cup at base ; 



