Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 5 
SINGAPORE: Deschamps ! 
Gomphrena globosa, Linn. Sp. Pl. 224 (1753) the ‘Globe Amavr- 
anth’ probably coming from America, with large globose yellow or 
crimson heads of flowers. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 732. 
Stineapore: 7’. Anderson 80! 
1. DrERinera, Brown. 
Herbs or rambling or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, petio- 
late, entire. Flowers 1—2-sexual, small, in simple or panicled spikes 
er racemes, or sometimes fascicled; bract and 2 bracteoles scarious. 
Perianth-lobes 5, oblong, imbricate, spreading in fruit, subequal. 
‘Stamens 4—5, the filaments broadened and connate at the base in a 
cup, slender above; anthers reniform-oblong, 2-celled. Ovary ovoid 
er subglobose; stigmas 2—4, subulate; ovules few or many, on long 
funicles from the base. Fruit a globose berry or circumsciss 
utricle, seated on the spreading persistent perianth. Seeds few or 
many, reniform, compressed ; testa crustaceous, puncticulate; em- 
bryo annular, surrounding the farinaceous albumen; cotyledons 
linear, plano-convex; radicle descending. Distrre. Species 5—6, 
Asiatic, Australian and Pacific, one in Madagascar. 
Flowers, in long panicled racemes; stamens exsert; 
seeds few, under 6 ie ae .. IL. D. celostotdes. 
Flowers, in short spikes; stamens scarcely exsert; seeds 
very many 5% a ac -. 2. D. indica. 
1. DEERINGIA CELOSIOIDES, Brown Prodr. Fl. Nov.-Holl. f. 413 
(1810). A woody climbing shrub; branchlets long, slender, climb- 
ing, blackish when dry. Leaves membranous, glabrous, ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded or deltoid-acute, some- 
times cordate, often unequal at base; upper surface blackish when 
dry, lower pale; 5—10 cm. long, 4—5 cm. broad but often less; midrib 
slender, main nerves 7—10 pairs, branching, prominent beneath and 
joined by irregular transverse nervules; petiole slender, 1—2°5 cm. long. 
Flowers smali, in long slender racemes in terminal drooping panicles 
often 30—40 cm. long; bract and 2 bracteoles ovate acuminate, scari- 
ous. Perianth-lobes oblong, obtuse, 1—1:‘5 mm. long, scarious on 
the margins. Stamens exsert; anthers oblong-reniform. Ovary de- 
pressed globose; stigmas 3, papillose. Fruit a succulent scarlet 
berry about 5 mm. in diam. ; pericarp rather thin; seeds about 3—6, 
black, puncticulate. Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 682 and ed. Carey and Wall. 
TY. 511; Wight Ic. t. 728; Wall. Cat. 6888; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 
