574 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXII. 



Hebbs, ekect with Alternate Bxstipulatb Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals None. 



Flowers in terminal chaffy spikes. 



Celosia argentea, 



AmARANTACEtE. 



F. B. L iv. 7L4. 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 

 Dharampur. 



Celosia cristata, 

 Cocks comb, 



Amarantace^e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 715. 

 The Plains. 



Digera arvensis, 



Amarantus spinosus, 



Amabantace^. 



F. B. Liv. 718. 



The Plains, 



to 6,000 ft. 



Ohoa Saidau Shah 



(Donie). 

 Sainj. 

 Valleys below Simla. 



Amarantus paniculatus, 



Bathu. 



Amarantace^e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 718. 

 The Plains to 9,000 ft. 

 Valleys below and 

 Hills above Simla. 



medium size to large, annual, smooth, stem stout 

 or slender ; leaves 1-6, linear or lanceolate, stalked 

 or sessile, flowers g-^ in., white or pinkish, glisten- 

 ing in long-stalked, simple or branched, cylindric, 

 oblong or ovoid spikes, 1-8 by f-1 in., looking like 

 the flowering top of a grass, sepals 5, thin, shining, 

 lanceolate, short-pointed, longer than the bracts, 

 petals none, stamens 5, united below into a tube, 

 style long, tip 2-lobed, fruit dry, ovoid, enclosed 

 in the sepals, short pointed, seeds few. This plant 

 is found in fields or near cultivation. 



like the last species, but leaves broader and 

 longer, flowers much smaller, |-J in., pink, red or 

 yellow, spikes often branched with flattened united 

 stalks. This plant is cultivated or found as an 

 escape. 



see Herbs, Prostrate, Alternate, Exstipulate. 

 Simple. 



medium size to large, annual, green, sometimes 

 red, stem hard, spines § in. and less, straight, 

 leaves 1^-4 by |-2 in. ovate or oblong, blunt, long- 

 stalked, base wedged-shape, 5 spines in each leaf- 

 axil ; flowers ^^ in. long, male and female separate 

 in axillary clusters and in long dense or loose- 

 flowered spikes, bracket one bristle-like and bract- 

 eoles 2 at the base of each flower, longer than the 

 sepals, sepals of males long-pointed, of females 

 blunt with a short point, stamens 5, stigmas 2, fruit 

 wrinkled, nearly as long as the sepals, dividing by 

 a circular fissure below the top, top thickened, and 

 divided into 2 or 3, seeds #oin. diam., black, 

 shining, border blunt, not thickened. A weed of 

 cultivation. 



large, annual, stout, stem streaked, smooth or 

 very slightly downy ; leaves 2-6 by 1-3 in., oblong 

 with the ends rounded or ovate-lanceolate, short- 

 pointed or finely long-pointed ; flowers like the last 

 species, but red or yellow in ovate branched 

 racemes, roughly scurfy with spreading recurved 

 bracts, bracts needle-like, very much longer than 

 the long-pointed sepals, seeds Tj^yin. diam., yellow- 

 ish-white or densely black with a narrow thin 

 border. This plant is widely cultivated as a rainy 

 seas:>n crop. 



