219 



A mar. p 77 ; Cladostachys alternifolia, Sweet. Hort, Brit, p 570 ; 

 Chamissoa arabica and Muricata, Spr. syst. i, p 8 Jo. 



12. CYATHULA. 



1 . PROSTRATA, Blume Bijdr. p 549. Stem herbaceous, prostrate 

 or ascending, angular, glabrous ; branches somewhat quadrangular, 

 hairy ; leaves very shortly-petioled, obovate, rhomb or ovate 

 lanceolate-acuminate, pubescent, green above, glaucous beneath ; 

 spikes twiggy ; slender, lax-flowered ; flowers pale-violet ; hooks 

 15 to 20, as long as the calyx, yellowish. Syn. Achyranthes 

 prostrata, Linn. sp. 296 ; Cyathula geniculata, Lour. Fl. Cochin, p 

 102; Desmochseta prostrata, DC. Cat. Mon. Hort. 1813, p 102; 

 Wight Ic. t. 733; Pupalia prostrata, Mart. Beitr. Amarant. p 113; 

 Centaurium ciliare minus, Pluk. Aim. p 93, et Phyt. t, 82, /. 2 ; 

 Achyranthes debilis, Diet. Suppl. 1. 2, p 10; Desmochaeta 

 micrantha, DC. loc. cit., N. 4. 



13. PUPALIA, Juss. 



1 . ATROPURPUREA, Moq. in DC. Prod. 13, p 331 . Stem suflfru- 

 ticose, glabrous, branches ascending, obtusely and obscurely 4-seed- 

 ed, hispid and pubescent, leaves opposite, long-petioled ovate- 

 acuminate, obsoletely mucronulate, hispid and rough, dark-green ; 

 calyx twice as long as the bracts ; hooks numerous, long, dark-purple. 

 Common in Gujarat. Syn. Achyranthes lappacea, Linn. sp. ed. ii, 

 p 95; Celosia lappacea, Med. Bot. Beob. p 160; Achyranthes 

 atropurpurea, Lam. Diet, i, p 546 ; Desmochaeta atropurpurea, 

 DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. p 102; Wight Ic. t. 731. 



2. LAPPACEA, Moq. loc. cit. Stem herbaceous, erect, villous 

 and pubescent ; branches spreading, somewhat quadrangular, rather 

 tomentose; leaves opposite, shortly-petioled, oval, attenuated at 

 both ends, acuminate-mucronate, shortly villous, hoary and glau- 

 cous; calyx a little longer than the bracts; sepals woolly, 3-nerved ; 

 hooks, few, long, yellow. Common in some parts of Gujarat and 

 Kattywar. Syn. Achyranthes lappacea, Linn. sp. ed. i, p 204 ; A 

 echinata, Retz. Obs. ii, p 12; A patula, Linn. Fil. Suppl. p 160; 

 A lappacea, Echinata, and Patula, Willd. sp. i, 1193; A styraci- 

 folia, Lam. Diet, i, p 546 ; Cadelari lappacea, Medic. Monad, 

 p 92; Desmochgeta flavescens, DC. loc. cit. p 102; D patula, 

 Hcem. and Schult. syst. v, p 550. 



3. OKBICULATA, R.Wight, t. 1783. A spreading procumbent 

 plant ; stem prostrate ; leaves orbicular, retuse, acute at the base, 

 short-petioled, densely villous when young, becoming smoother by 

 age ; fascicles densely tomentose, many-flowered, globular, remote, 



