452 The Botanical Gazette. [October, 
Type (Alamos, Sonora, Pa/mer 660a in 1890) in Nat. herb. 
7. A. PHILOXEROIDES (Mart.) Griseb. in Goett. Abh. 24: 
. 1879. 
Bucholzia philoxeroides tail Beitr. Amarant. 107. 182 5: 
This species has been found at Pensacola, Florida (Mohr 
26), and at Coosan, South Carolina (Cohen in 1885), where in 
both cases it is probably adventive. 
+ + Calyx pedicellate. 
8. A. BRASILIANA (L.) Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. 537. 1891. 
Gomphrena Brasiliana L. Amcen. Acad. 4: 310. 1759. 
Gomphrena patula Wendl. Beob. 43. 1798. 
aA Siphanes straminea Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Bras. 2: 35. pl. 135- 
1826. 
Mogiphanes ramosissima Mart. |. c. 31. Dl. £30. 1826. 
LPhiloxera Brasiliana Smith in Rees Cycl. 5: 27. —. 
Celosia altissima Salzm. ex. Mog. 1. c. 381. 1849. 
Telanthera Floridana Chapm. FI. S. U. S. 383. 1883. 
Herbaceous or suffrutescent, mostly erect, slender, elon- 
gated, remotely jointed, forking or branched, often swollen 
at the nodes, from glabrate to villous: leaves small (1 to7 
long), ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, short petioled: heads 
ovate or sometimes cylindrical in maturity, long peduncled: 
bracts short, persistent: flowers 4™" long, 3 times the length 
of the bracts, deciduous, raised on a short dilate 5-angled 
pedicel: sepals pubescent, yellowish: utricle crowned with a 
narrow rim as in A. repens.—Florida, where it has crept in 
from the lowland tropics. 
stsstma Moq., has other peculiarities sufficient to keep it apart. 
Dr. Kuntze, disregarding this fact, has united certain species 
under A. bicolar OK 1. ¢., which on this basis are seen to be 
clearly and constantly distinct. Moreover, his observations 
on the color of the flowers, even if correct, do not seem 
offer sufficient ground for uniting so many species on that 
character alone. It is artificial in that he has relegated floral 
