714 cxvi. AMARANTACKffi. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Deeringia. 



TEIBE III. G-omphreneae. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary 1-ovuled ; ovule 

 suspended from a basal funicle. Leaves opposite. 



Staminal tube very short. Stigma subsessile, capitate . . . 16. ALTERNANTHERA. 

 Staminal tube long. Style long. Stigma 2-fid 17. GOMPHRENA. 



1. DEERZNGXA, Br. 



Rambling or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled. Flowers 

 small, in simple or panicled spikes, 1-2- sexual. Sepals 5, oblong, spreading 

 in fruit. Stamens 4-5; anthers 2-celled ; staminodes 0. Ovary ovoid or 

 subglobose ; stigmas 2-4, subulate ; ovules few or many, funicle long. Fruit 

 a globose berry or circumsciss utricle, seated on the spreading perianth. 

 Seeds few or many ; radicle descending. Species 5-6, Asiatic, Australian 

 and Pacific. 



D. celosioicles, JBr. Prodr. 413 ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate, racemes long panicled. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 682, and Ed. Wall. Sf 

 Carey, ii. 511 ; Wight Ic. t. 728 ; Wall. Cat. 6888 ; Dalz. Sf Gils. Bomb. 

 FL 214; Bot. Mag. t. 2717; JEndl. Iconogr.i. 62. D. baccata, Moq. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. 236. D. indica, Retz. in Blume Bijd. 542 ; Spreng. Syst. 

 i. 816. Celosia baccata, Retz. Obs. v. 23. Cladostachys frutescens, Don 

 Prodr. 76, excl. syn. Blitum frutescens, Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 83, 

 f. 2. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Simla to Bhotam, alt. 1-5000 ft. ASSAM, SILIIET, 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-4000 ft. CHITTAGONG and LOWER BENGAL ; at Pubna, J. D. H. 

 <$ T. T. BEHAR ; Mongbir, Hamilton ; and Rotas, J. D. H. PEGU, Wallich. The 

 CONCAN, Dalz. Sf Gibs. (I have seen no specimen). DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China, 

 Australia. 



Blackish or dark green when dry, subscandent, sometimes climbing 18 ft. high ; 

 branches long, arching. Leaves 2-4 in., base rounded or acute, rarely cordate ; petiole 

 ^-lin. Spikes 4-10 in. Flowers greenish-white, in. diani. ; pedicels short; bracts 

 acute. Berry globose, g- in. diam., scarlet. 



2. CELOSIA, Linn. 



Usually annual herbs. Leaves alternate. Flowers clustered or spicate, 

 white or pink, shining. Sepals scarious, striate or ribbed. Stamens 5, 

 united below into a cup ; anthers 2-celled ; staminodes 0. Utricle cir- 

 cuinsciss, sometimes corky or thickened. Seeds erect, testa crustaceous, 

 radicle inferior or ascending. Species 30, tropical Asiatic, African and 

 American. 



* Spikes very stout ; flowers densely imbricate. Utricle acute ; style 

 filiform, lengthening after flowering. 



1. C. argrentea, Linn. ; annual, glabrous, erect, leaves linear or lanceo- 

 late, spikes long-peduncled cylindric or oblong or ovoid, flowers - in.; 

 style filiform. Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 242 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 678, and 

 Ed. Carey <Sf Wall. ii. 507 ; Grali. Cat. Bomb. PI. 167 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. 

 -F7.215; Wight Ic. t. 1767; Wall. Cat. 6916; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 987. 

 C. linearis, Sweet Sort. Brit. 569. C. margaritacea, L. } Wall. Cat. 6917 ; 

 Don Prodr. 76.Rkeede Sort. Mai. x. t. 38, 39. 



Throughout INDIA and CEYLON in fields, ascending the hills to 4000 ft. (nowhere 

 really indigenous). DISTRIB. Trop. Asia, Africa, America, cultivated or introduced. 



