Cyafhula.] cxvi. AMARANTACE^B. (J. D. Hooker.) 723 



solitary peduncled bracteate or not. Wight Ic. t. 1782. Polyscelis capitata, 

 Wall. Cat. 6940. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Dalhousie to Sikkim, alt. 6-9000 ft. 

 More herbaceous and slender than C. tomentosa. Leaves 2-5 in., membranous ; 

 petiole i-1 in. Heads 1-1 in diani., white, glistening ; flowers as in C. tomentosa. 



3. C. ceylanica, HooJc.f.; erect, tomentose, leaves subsessile elliptic 

 subacute, heads globose solitary. C. capitata, Thwaites Enum. 249. 



CEYLON ; near Kandy, Thwaites. 



Branches slender, terete. Leaves l-2 in., pubescent above, tomentose beneath. 

 Heads 1 in. diam. Sepals villous: The specimens are very indifferent. The leaves 

 resemble those of the African C. glolulifera, Moq., but the branches are more slender 

 and the leaves almost sessile. 



** Clusters of flowers small, solitary, spicate, reflexed. 



4. C. prostrata, Blume Bijd. 549 ; annual, stem creeping below, 

 branches erect or ascending, leaves subsessile elliptic rhomboid-oblong or 

 subpanduriform obtuse, spikes very slender terminal peduncled. Moq. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 326 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 219. C. repens, Moq. 

 1. c. 330. . Achyranthes prostrata, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 674, and Ed. 

 Carey # Wall., ii. 501 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 168. A. repens, Heyne in 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 167. A. debilis, Poir. Dirt. Suppl. i. 2, 10. Desmochaeta 

 prostrata & micrantha, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 1813, 102. D. prostrata, 

 Wight Ic. t. 733. D. patula ? Wall. Cat. 6937. D. repens, Roem. $ Sck. 

 Syst. v. 552 ; Wall. Cat. 6938. Pupalia prostrata, Mart. Beitr. Amarant. 

 I13.Rkeede Hort. Mai. x. t. 79. 



BENGAL, SIKKIM, KHASIA MTS., CHITTAGKJNG to MALACCA, the DECCAN PENIN- 

 SULA, BURMA, and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Tropical Asia, Africa, Australasia, Oceania, 

 and America. 



Very slender, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous or scaberulous. Leaves ~\.-2> in., base narrowed 

 often suddenly from below the middle. Spikes 4-6 in., rarely paniculately branched. 

 Clusters of flowers i in. long, ovoid, blueish. Sepals oblong, pubescent, outer (of 

 imperfect flowers) as long as the perfect. Staminodes 2-fid or retuse. Seeds ovoid- 

 oblong. Roxburgh believes this to have been introduced into Bengal from the 

 Moluccas. 



9. PUPALIA, Juss. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers in spicate clusters, 

 perfect and imperfect; the imperfect reduced to awns bearing stellately 

 spreading hooked bristles. Sepals 5, herbaceous, acuminate, 3-5-nerved. 

 Stamens 5, nearly free below ; anthers 2-celled ; staminodes 0. Ovary 

 ovoid ; style slender, stigma capitellate ; ovule 1, pendulous from a long basal 

 funicle. Utricle ovoid, compressed, indehiscent, top areolate. Species 3, 

 Asiatic and African. 



1. P. atropurpurea, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 331 ; slender, 

 erect, leaves petioled ovate or elliptic acute or acuminate, spikes 

 long, rachis slender, clusters remote bracteate woolly, sepals broadly 3- 

 nerved, laxly villous. Dalz. $ G-ibj. Bomb. Fl. 219 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 i. 1046. Achyranthes lappacea, Linn. Sp. PL Ed. 2, 95 (excl. syn. Ed. 1) ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 673, and in Ed. Carey <$f Wall. ii. 500. A. . atropurpurea, 

 Lamk. Diet. i. 546. Desmochasta atropurpurea, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 

 102; Wall. Cat. 6933, excl. K; Wight Ic. t. 731; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 

 1230. Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 18, f. 1 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 59. 



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