Nothoscerua.] cxvi. AMARANTACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 727 



SCINDE and the CONCAN, Stocks, &c. MAISOE and the CAENATIC. BUEMA, Wallich. 

 CEYLON, common. DISTEIB. Mauritius, E. and W. tropical Africa. 



Erect, 1-2 ft., branched from the base; branches puberulous, spreading. Leaves 

 1-2 in., ovate elliptic or subovate, obtuse or subacute, membranous, green ; petiole 

 0- in. Spikes very numerous, sessile, - in. long, cylindric, white, dense-fld. ; 

 bracts broadly ovate, hyaline, persistent. Sepals ^ in. long, silkily villous. One of 

 the smallest flowered plants provided with a regular perianth. Moquin has probably 

 confounded this with the very similar Mrua lanata (as did Wight), to which the 

 latter part of his description applies. 



13. JERUA, Forslc. 



Woolly herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite. Flowers 

 small or minute, in solitary or panicled spikes, often polygamous. Sepals 

 4-5, short, membranous, all or the inner only woolly. Stamens 45, connate 

 below with interposed linear staminodes into a cup ; anthers 2-celled. 

 Ovary ovoid or subglobose ; style long or short, stigma capitellate or 2-fid ; 

 ovule 1, pendulous from a long basal funicle. Utricle indehiscent, or the 

 coriaceous crown circumsciss. Seed inverse, testa coriaceous ; embryo 

 annular. Species 10, ^tropical Asiatic and African. v 



* Spikes axillary and in terminal panicles. Leaves opposite or alternate. 



1. IE. javanica, Juss. in Ann. Mus. xi. 131 ; hoary-tomentose, 

 shrubby below, leaves from linear to oblanceolate or oblong acute obtuse 

 or retuse, spikes elongate densely woolly not glistening, style elongate, 

 stigmas long. Wall. Cat. 6908: Wight Ic. t. 876; Moq. in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. 2, 299; Dalz. Sf Gils. Bomb. Fl. 216; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 992. 

 M. Wallichii^.jMbj. 1. c. 300. M. tomentosa, Forslc. Fl. JEg. Aral. 122; 

 Laink. Diet, i. 46. M. segyptiaca, Gmel. Syst. 1026. M. Bovii, Fdgew. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 206. JEt. in can a, Mart, in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. 

 Cur. xii. (1826), 291. Achyrauthes alopecuroides, LamJc. I. c. 548. A. java- 

 nica, Pers. Syn. i. 259. A. incana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 671, and Ed. Carey 

 & Wall. ii. 495. Illecebrum javauicum, Ait. Sort. Kew, 289. Iresine 

 javanica & persica, Burm. Fl. Ind. 212 (by error 312), t. 65. Celosia 

 lanata, Linn. Sp. PL 298. 



From the OUDTT TEEAI, Wallich, to the PANJAB, Boyle, &c. SCIXDE, Stocks. 

 CENTEAL INDIA, Clarke. The DECCAN from the CONCAN southward. BUBMA, 

 Wallich. CEYLON ; N. of the island, Gardner. DISTEIB. Westward to Arabia, 

 E. and W. tropical Africa, and the Cape Verde Islands. Java ? 



Dioecious. Stem terete, 2-3 ft., branched, as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 

 alternate, 1-4 in., flat or with recurved margins, sessile or narrowed into a petiole ; 

 nerves distinct. Spikes often in large panicles, sessile, erect or nodding, 1-6 in. 

 long. Flowers ^ in. long, enveloped in long wool, males very rare. Edgeworth 

 (Fl. Mall. 1. c.) insists that the narrow-leaved form is a distinct species, and is 

 odorous, which <3Z, javanica (which grows with it) is not. Boissier makes a variety 

 of it ; local botanists should see to this. 



2. 2E. scandens, Wall. Cat. 6911, excl. M\ a climbing undershrub, 

 branches hoary-tomentose, leaves ovate elliptic oblong or lanceolate obtuse 

 or acute glabrous or hoary, spikes globose ovoid or shortly cylindric woolly 

 shining, sepals lanceolate acuminate, stigmas very short. Moq. in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. 2, 302; Wight Ic. t. 724 (utricle and seed wrong); Dalz. Sf 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 217. Achyranthes scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 676, and 

 JEd. Carey Sf Wall, ii. 503. 



