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Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals None. 



containing one or two perfect flowers and many 

 imperfect ones consisting of hooked sepals, spikes 

 2-6 in. long, stalked, calyx 5-fid, segments narrowly 

 lanceolate, 2 or all ending in hooked extremities, 

 lengthening with age, stamens o, alternate with 5 

 fringed staminodes united below, style slender, 

 stigma rounded; fruit dry, bladder shaped, 2- 

 nerved, seed one, ovate shining. 



Cyathufa capitata, 



AMARANTACE.E. 



F. B. 1. iv. 722. 

 Himalaya, 6-9,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett.) 



very like the last, only more slender and flowers 

 collected in heads about one inch in diam. 



Pupalia lappacea, 



Amarantace^e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 724. 

 The Plains to 3,000 ft. 

 Baluchistan. 



large, straggling, felted, branches rounded ; 

 leaves 2-4 in., broadly ovate to lanceolate and 

 short pointed, base sharp pointed, leaf stalk |-J 

 in. ; flowers in small distant or adjacent clusters \ 

 in. diam., calyx of 5 sepals, green, 3-nerved, 

 densely woolly, reduced in imperfect flowers to a 

 process, bearing stellately spreading hooked bris- 

 tles, petals none, stamens 5, nearly free below, 

 .staminodes none, style slender, stigma roundish, 

 fruit ovoid, flattened, seed one. 



Kothosaerua brachiata 



Amarantace^e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 726. 

 The Plains. 



medium size, annual, branched from the base, 

 branches slightly velvety, spreading ; leaves 1-2 

 in. ovate, blunt or short pointed, thin, green, stalk 

 0-| in. ; flowers very minute, woolly, in axillary 



solitary or clustered little spikes, 



long, 



white, calyx of 3-5 thin, colourless sepals ■$& in. 

 long, silky, one nerved, petals none, stamens 1-2, 

 ununited, staminodes none, stigma nearly sessile; 

 fruit minute, oblong, flattened, seed one. 



