PsilotricJtnm.] cxvi. AMARAXTACE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 725 



divaricate glabrous, leaves petioled ovate-lanceolate acute glabrous, spikes 

 sessile many-fld., bracts lanceolate, sepals 5- in. deeply grooved ihairy. 

 Achyranthes nuda, Herb. Heyne in Boxb. FL. Ind., Ed. Carey # Wall. ii. 

 507; Wall. Gat. 6926. A. montana, Klein mss. A. polygonoides, var. 

 Herb. Heyne. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Heyne, G. Thomson. 



Branches many from the woody stock, 2-3 ft., terete, woody, tips only hairy. 

 Leaves 1^-3 in., glabrous, narrowed into a short petiole, nerves faint. Spikes 

 -1^ in., strict, hairy, 6- or many-fld. ; bracts persistent, acuminate. Sepals pubescent, 

 deeply grooved, rigid, acuminate. Very near a S.E. Tropical African species. 



2. P. scleranthum, Thwaites Enum. 248 ; an undershrub, branches 

 divaricate tomentose, leaves subsessile ovate-lanceolate acute scaberulous, 

 spikes terminal peduncled 3-nate, bracts broadly ovate, sepals i in. obscurely 

 grooved hairy. 



CEYLON; at .Anooradhapoora, Gardner. 



Habit of P. nudum, but branches tornentose, leaves scaberulous on both surfaces 

 and inflorescence branched. The 3 terminal spikes are sessile on the top of a tomentose 

 peduncle in. long, are dense-fld., oblong, the middle one | in. erect, the lateral 

 horizontal and shorter. Sepals pubescent, pungent. Described from a single 

 specimen. 



3. P. calceolatum, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 280; a small under- 

 shrub, branches divaricate pubescent or glabrate, leaves subsessile ovate or 

 elliptic acute glabrous sparsely hairy, spikes axillary sessile or peduncled 

 short few-fld., bracts cymbiform acute, sepals in. oblong acute ribbed 

 villous. P. nudum, Wight Ic. t. 1775. Achyranthes calceolata, Herb. 

 Russel in Wall. Cat. 6927. A. glauca, Herb. Heyne. Ptilotus ovatus, 

 Moq. I. c. 281. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne, in jungles on the hills, Wight. CEYLON; in the 

 hotter parts of the island, Moon, &c. 



Habit of P. nudum (sometimes subscandent, Wight), but much smaller and more 

 slender. Leaves -! in- Spikes 4-6-fld., sometimes peduncled by being ter- 

 minal on a leafless axillary branch, at others the peduncle itself lengthens. A Natal 

 species hardly differs. 



VAE. tomentosa ; leaves pubescent above tomentose beneath. Scraps of this are 

 on sheets of 6926 A and 6927 B in Herb. Wall. 



** Annuals. 



4. P. trichotomum, Blume Bijd. 545 ; annual, slender, glabrous, 

 branches erect, leaves petioled elliptic- or elliptic-lanceolate acute, spikes 

 terminal and in the forks sessile or peduncled, bracts lanceolate, sepals fa in. 

 deeply grooved acuminate glabrous. Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 280. 

 Achyranthes? carnosa, Wall. Cat. 6931. Leiospermum ferrugineum, Wight 

 Ic. t. 721. 



ASSAM, Griffith. SILHET, at Terrya Ghat, H. f. Sf T. PEGU, M'Clelland. 

 DISTRIB. Java, Borneo, Philippines. 



Flaccid, 12-18 in. high, decumbent. Leaves l-2 in., rarely obovate, thin, nar- 

 rowed into a very short petiole. Spikes ^- in., green, terminal, sometimes 3-nate ; 

 flowers crowded. Sepals narrow. 



5. P. ferrugrineuxn, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 279 ; annual, glabrous, 

 branches prostrate, leaves linear- or obovate-oblong, spikes terminal and in 

 the forks sessile or peduncled, bracts subulate-lanceolate, sepals ^ in. deeply- 

 grooved glabrous, outer obtuse. Achyranthes ferruginea, Itoxb. FL Ind. i. 



