= Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
nerved. Stamens 1—5, opposite the perianth segments; filaments 
free or connate below in a membranous hypogynous cup, often alter- 
nating with membranous staminodes; anthers dorsifixed, 1- or 2- 
celled. Ovary 1-celled, ovoid ellipsoid or globose; ovules 1 or more, 
amphitropous, erect or suspended from basal funicles; style some- 
times simple or obsolete with capitellate stigma, sometimes 2—3-fid 
with acute stigmas, or styles 2 or 3 papillosely stigmatic on the inner 
face, erect or recurved. Fruit a membranous utricle, rarely a berry 
or a capsule, breaking irregularly or circumscissly, supported by the 
persistent perianth. Seed erect or inverted, orbicular ovate or reni- 
form, compressed ; testa crustaceous; tegmen, if present, membran- 
ous; embryo horseshoe-shaped or annular, surrounding a floury 
albumen.—Distris. Genera 48, species about 500, tropical and 
subtropical. 
Anthers 2-celled :— 
Ovary 2—x-ovuled; leaves alternate (Tribe I. CeLosIz a) :— 
Fruit a berry ; shrubby a5 +2 .. 1. DEERINGIA. 
Fruit membranous ; herbaceous Se .. 2. CELOSIA. 
Ovary l-ovuled (Tribe Il. AMARANTE) :— 
Ovule erect: leaves alternate :— 
Flowers 2-sexual, capitate; utricle circumsciss .. 3. ALLMANTIA. 
Flowers unisexual, in large clusters; utricle cir- 
cumsciss or indehiscent 32 .. 4. AMARANTUS. 
Ovule suspended from a basal funicle; leaves oppo- 
site :— 
Flowers clustered, 1—3 perfect, surrounded by de- 
formed ones :— 
Stamens with interposed staminodes 5 
Stamens without staminodes - .. 6, Paexeaas 
Flowers all perfect :— 
Staminodes 0; spikes short; perianth-segments 
soft 2 ae aA .. 7. PSILOTRICHUM. 
Staminodes present : 
Spikes rather short: perianth-segments soft, 
often woolly rd a: .-- 8. ADRvA. 
Spikes long; perianth-segments spinescent .. 9. ACHYRANTHES. 
Anthers |-celled; ovary !-ovuled; ovule suspended from 
a basai funicle; leaves opposite (Tribe III. Gom- 
PHRENEZ) :— 2 as 59 .. 10. ALTERNANTHERA. 
The following plants seem to be commonly cultivated in gar- 
dens, besides some of these described. 
Telanthera ficoidea, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 363 (1849), a 
native of Brazil and used for edgings and carpet borders, the leaves 
being of a fine crimson colour. 
