722 ex vi. AMARAXTACE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Amarantus. 



worth. The Carnatic Perrottet. This is almost identical with A. gr&cizans, Linn. 

 (A. BUtum, var. grcecizans, Moq. ; A, sylvestris, var. grcecizans, Boiss.). 



10. A. tenuifolius, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 381 ; glabrous, branches many 

 spreading from the root prostrate or ascending, leaves small petioled 

 linear-oblong or widened to the rounded obtuse or 2-lobed tip, clusters 

 minute all axillary, sepals 2 oblong concave nearly as long as the orbicular 

 compressed membranous indehiscent utricle. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 602 ; Wight 

 Ic. t. 718; Wall. Cat. 6893, excl. E. A. angustifolius, Roxb.mss. Mengea 

 tenuifolia, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 271 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 218. 



BENGAL, the GANGETIC VALLEY and PANJAB. DISTEIB. Tropical Africa. 



Branches slender, 6-18 in., leafy. Leaves very variable, |-1 in. long, narrowed 

 into the petiole. Clusters smaller than in any other species, green. IStamens 2. 

 Utricle plicate when dry. Seed ^ in. diam., brown, lenticular, border obtuse. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



A. ATEOPUEPUEEUS, Roxl. Fl. Ind. 688, is a garden plant, possibly a form of 

 A. oleraceus. 



A. CAMPESTEIS, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 382; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 264, is 

 undeterminable. 



A. EUBEICAULIS, Page Hort. Angl. (fid. Moq. I. c. 267) name only, is inde- 

 terminable. 



8. CYATHUZ.A, Lour. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers clustered, clusters 

 solitary spicate and reflexed in fruit, or in dense globose solitary or spicate 

 heads ; perfect flowers 1-2 in each cluster, surrounded by imperfect ones 

 reduced to sepals with rigid hooked awns. Sepals 5, scarious, 1-nerved, 

 acuminate or with hooted rigid awns. Stamens 5, connate, united below with 

 the linear lacerate or 2-fid staminodes into a cup; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 

 obovoid ; style filiform, stigma capitellate ; ovule 1, pendulous from a long 

 basal f unicle. Utricle ovoid, indehiscent, top areolate. Seed inverse, oblong, 

 testa coriaceous ; embryo annular, cotyledons linear flat. Species 10, tropical 

 Asia, Africa and America. 



* Clusters of flowers in large globose heads. 



1. C. tomentosa, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 327; densely tomen- 

 tose or woolly, leaves short-petioled elliptic acute or acuminate, base acute, 

 heads globose spicate. C. Sequax, Moq. mss. Achyranthes tomentosa, 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 167; Wight -Ic. t. 1781. A. Sequax, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., 

 JSd. Carey fy Wall. ii. 506. Desmocbfeta tomentosa, Roem. Sf Sch. Syst. v. 

 554. Polyscelis Sequax, Wall. Cat. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA ; from Dalhousie to Bhotan, alt. 2-6500 ft., Wallicfi, &c. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-5000 ft. 



A straggling undershrub, variable in density of tomentum ; branches strict, 

 obtusely 4-angled. Leaves 2-10 in., rarely orbicular or elliptic-lanceolate, pubescent 

 or glabrate above, often velvety or subsilky beneath ; petiole - in. Spikes 2-6 in. 

 long peduncled ; heads close or distant, 1-1 J in. diam., white, glistening; bracts ovate 

 below, back hairy. Sepals \-\ in., linear-lanceolate, 2 or all ending in hooked awns, 

 lengthening in age. Staminodes fimbriate. Anthers linear. " Utricle 2-nerved ; 

 seed ovate shining," Wallich. I find no seed in any of the numerous specimens. 



2. C. capitata, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 329 ; sparsely hairy, leaves 

 short-petioled elliptic subcaudate-acuminate, base acute, heads globose sub- 



