Ireaine AMARANTACE^: 145 



1. I. paniculata Kuntze Bev. ii. 542 (1891) ; spikes sessile, 

 golden yellow or white ; flowers dioecious. — Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 

 222. I. Celosia L. Syst. ed. 10, 1291 (1759). I. celosioides 

 L. iSp. PL ed. 2, 1456 (1763) ; Wright Mem. 268; Moq. in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. pt. 2, 347 ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 64. I. erecta 

 <fec. Browne Hist. Jam. 358. Amaranthus panicula. flavicante &c. 

 Shane Hist. i. 142, t. 90, /. 2. A. nodosus &c. Pluk. Aim. 26, 

 t. 261,/. 1. Celosia paniculata L. Sp. PI. 206 (1753). Type in 

 Herb. Linn. 



■Juba's Bush. 



Sloane Herb. ii. 118 ! Shakspeur 1 Bancroft 1 McNab ! Montego Bay, 

 Pamell 1 Moneague, Prior ! March ! Clydesdale^ J.P. 1142, Morris I Bail ! 

 Gordon Town, 1100 ft., Eggers I St. George, Gradwick ! Norbrook, 

 Campbell I Mandeville, 2200 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6238, 6270.— Bahamas, 

 Cayman, West Indies, continental America from United States south to 

 Argentina. 



Stem 6-12 dm. 1., weak and trailing, or woody below. Leaves, upper 

 lanceolate, lower ovate, to 16 cm. 1., becoming smaller above, acute or 

 acuminate. Panicles 3 dm. 1. and longer or much contracted, with no 

 leaves or a few ; spikes with pubescent rhachis, 4-7 mm. 1. Bract and 

 bracteoles broadly ovate ; bracteoles not keeled, a little longer than the 

 bract and a little shorter than the perianth. Perianth 1-1 mm. 1., 

 glabrous ; segments inconspicuously 3-nerved. Utricle • 8 mm. 1. Seed 

 brown-black, "6 mm. br. 



2. I. elatiop L. C. Bich. ex Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 766 (1806) ; 

 spikes stalked, between umber and buff colour ; flowers poly- 

 gamo-moncEcious.- -iHfo^. torn. cit. 343 ; Griseb. loc. cit. ; Urh, loe. 

 cit. (Fig. 48.) 



Broughton ! Prior ! coast between Portland Point and Rocky Point, 

 Harris 1 PL Jam. 10,187. — West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, 

 Mexico. 



Stem to 12 dm. high, trailing, woody below. Leaves lanceolate, 

 acuminate, to 15 cm. 1., becoming smaller towards the inflorescence. 

 Panicles to 3 or 4 dm., leafy below ; spikes with woolly rhachis, 4-6 mm. 1., 

 or sometimes longer. Bract and bracteoles mucronate, 1-nerved ; bract 

 1-1 mm. 1.; bracteoles keeled, 1"8 mm. 1. Perianth 1-5 mm. 1., villose ; 

 exterior segments somewhat obtuse, mucronate, with one green nerve, 

 interior narrower, acute ; wool 4-6 mm. 1., on perianth and rhachis. 

 Utricle -8 mm. 1. 



Family XVII. NYCTAGINACE^. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or partly alternate 

 (in Pisonia), entire. Flowers in paniculate, cdrymbiform, ter- 

 minal and axillary cymes or rarely umbellulate, with a calyx-like 

 involucre (in Mirahilis) or minute bracts, hermaphrodite or uni- 

 sexual by abortion. Perianth inferior, persistent and increasing 

 in size in the fruit, enclosing the pericarp. Stamens 2-10, 

 hypogynous, filaments more or less united at the base, generally 



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