716 ex vi. AMARAXTACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Celosia. 



C. PATULA, Willd. in Act. Berol. vi/198; Moq. I. c. (C. glauca, Rottl. $ Willd. 

 in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. iv. 1803). Mountains of Madras. 



C. SANGUINEA, Hoffmann Verz. ii. 85 ; Moq. I. c. East Indies. 



3. BOSXA, Linn. (BosEA.) 



Erect, stout, glabrous, nauseous shrubs. Leaves alternate, persistent. 

 Flowers small, 2-4-bracteolate, green, spicate or racemose, often poly- 

 gamous. Sepals 5, herbaceous, rounded, concave. Stamens 5, inserted on 

 a hypogynous 10-lobed disk ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary ovoid ; stigmas 2-3, 

 sessile, recurved ; ovule erect, fnnicle short. Berry globose. Seed sub- 

 globose, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; embryo annular, cotyledons 

 broad. Species 3, Canaries, Mediterranean, N.W. India. 



Bosea trinervia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 87, is no doubt, as Dr. King informs me, Celtis 

 Wightii, Planch. 



B. Amherstiana, Hook. f. ; leaves ovate acute or acuminate, 

 flowers spicate, bracteoles 2-4. Eodetia Amherstiana, Moq. in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. 2, 323; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 302; Deeringia Amherstiana, Wall. 

 Cat. 6889. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft.; from Kumaon, Amherst, 

 Govan, to Kashmir, Thomson. 



Quite glabrous. Leaves 3-7 by 1-4 in. ; base acute or rounded ; blade narrowed 

 into a petiole \-% in. Spikes shorter than the leaves. Flowers in. diain. ; bracts 

 and bracteoles rounded, closely imbricated, green with white margins. Berries in. 

 diam. Rodetia differs from the original Bosia Yerva-Mora only in the pedicelled 

 flowers and fewer bracts and dioecious flowers, but the flowers are really only poly- 

 gamous, and the Bosia cypria of Boissier (from Cyprus^ has sessile flowers and bracts 

 imbricating as in Rodetia. 



4. BANAX.XA, Moq. 



An erect, glabrous, branching herb. Leaves alternate, membranous. 

 Flowers in axillary and terminal panicled spikes. Sepals 5, membranous, 

 linear- oblong, acute, 3-nerved. Stamens 5, united below into a cup, anthers 

 2-celled. Ovary ovoid, compressed ; style erect, stigmas 2 linear ; ovule 

 erect. Utricle subglobose, indehiscent. Seed orbicular, testa black crus- 

 taceous ; embryo annular. 



B. thyrsiflora, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 278; Wight Ic. t. 1774. 

 Celosia thyrsiflora, and C. missionis, Wall. Cat. 6914, 915 A. B. Achy- 

 ranthes thyrsiflora & polygonata, Herb. Heyne. 



NlLGHiRl MTS., alt. 4-7000 ft. ; Heyne, &c. 



A tall very slender herb, branches angular. Leaves 3-4 in,, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers in large thyrsoid white panicles, sessile, ^ in. long 1 . 



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5. AXiXiftlANXA, 2J>: 



Herbs. Leaves alternate, narrow. Flowers in axillary and terminal 

 globose or ovoid heads. Sepals 5, scarious, acuminate, striate. Stamens 5, 

 united below into a cup ; anthers 2-celled ; staminodes 0. Ovary ovoid ; 

 style slender, stigma capitellate ; ovule 1, erect. Utricle circumsciss. Seed 

 erect, aril cupular, testa crustaceous ; embryo annular, cotyledons linear 

 flat. Species 2 or 3, tropical Asiatic. 



1. A. nodiflora, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6890, excl. ; annual, diffusely 



