726 cxvi. AMARANTACEJG. (J. D. Hooker.) [Psilotrichum. 



675, and Ed. Carey Sf Wall., ii. 502. Leiospermum ferrugineum, Wall. Cat. 

 6923. 



BENGAL ; a weed in the gardens and cultivated lands of Calcutta, Roxburgh. 



Wallich's specimen forms an excessively branched prostrate mass 9 in. diam., with 

 divaricate branches and linear-oblong leaves 1-H in - long. Spikes % in. long, dense- 

 fld., yellow when dry. Roxburgh's description applies more nearly to P. trichotomum 

 in the form of the leaves, and Wight's figure, copied from Roxburgh's drawing, and 

 which shows acuminate sepals, is, I think, certainly taken from the latter plant. 

 There are no indications in Wallich's specimens gathered in the Calcutta Garden of 

 the rust-coloured stem, reddish leaves and dull red flowers described by Roxburgh. 



11. PSXXiOSTACKirS, Hochst. 



Slender dichotomous herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers minute, spicate 

 at the tips of the filiform branches of a lax panicle. Sepals 5, 2-3 outer 

 convex, strongly 3-nerved, inner narrower. Stamens 5, free ; anthers 

 2-celled; staminodes 0. Ovary ronnded or ovoid, compressed ; style slender ? 

 stigma capitellate. Utricle indehiscent. Seed inverse, testa coriaceous; 

 embryo hooked, cotyledons slender. Species 3, Indian, Arabian and 

 African. 



P. sericea, Hook.f. in Gen. Plant, iii. 32; stem erect, villous with 

 long hairs, leaves orbicular-ovate acute densely villous above silky beneath, 

 peduncles very long axillary filiform, pedicels capillary, spikes 4-6 fld. 

 Achyranthes sericea, Koen. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 675, and Ed. Carey Sf 

 Wall. ii. 502; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 318; Wight Ic. 726; Wall. Cat. 

 6930. Psilotrichum sericeum, Dalz. in Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 216. 



GOOZEKAT ; sandy hills on the coast of Kattiawar, Dalzell (and Koenig ?). 



Annual ? Stem stout, hard, terete ; hairs patent, 5 in. long, flexuous, terminating 

 in a lax panicle of erecto-pateut opposite branches 2 in. long, which divide at the tip 

 into capillary pedicels bearing the spikes. Leaves 1 in., thick, base rounded or cor- 

 date ; petiole very short. Spikes -$ in., rachis capillary zigzag ; flowers T ' 5 in. long. 

 tiepals ovate-lanceolate ; outer pungent, deeply ribbed, silky. A very beautiful 

 plant ; it is not known where Koenig procured it, if indeed he did himself procure it. 

 The specimen in the Wallichian Herbarium is marked " Herb. Koenig." 



12. NOTHOS2ERUA, Wight. 



An annual with opposite spreading branches. Leaves opposite. Flowers 

 most minute, woolly, in axillary solitary or clustered spike] ets. Sepals 

 3-5, hyaline, obtuse, 1-nerved. Stamens 1-2, free ; anthers 2-celled ; stami- 

 nodes 0. Ovary oblong, compressed ; stigma subsessile, capitellate ; ovule 1, 

 pendulous from a long basal funicle. Utricle oblong, compressed, indehis- 

 cent. Seed inverse, lenticular, testa crustaceous ; embryo hooked, cotyledons 

 linear. 



N. brachiata, Wight Ic. vi. 1. Pseudanthus brachiatus, Wight 

 1. c. t. 1776, excl. analyses ; and v. 3, t. 1776 bis, B. -ZErua brachiata, 

 Mart. Beitr. Amarant. 83, n. 3 ; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 304 (incorrect 

 as to staminodes) ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 217. M. chenopodiifolia, Bojer 

 Hort. Maurit. 268. Achyranthes brachiata, Linn. Mant. 50 ; JRoth Nov. 

 Sp. 169. Illecebrum brachiatum, Linn. Mant. 23. Amarantus minutus, 

 Leschen. mss. 



UPPER GANGETIC VALLEY and the PANJAB, from Moradabad north-eastward. 



