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globose ; ovules 2 or more on long funicles from the base of the 
ovary; style 0 or short or long, and sometimes elongating after flower- 
ing ; stigma simple or 2—3, subulate. Fruit a utricle dehiscing in cir- 
cumsciss fashion near the middle, membranous or sometimes coria- 
ceous. Seeds 2 or more, erect, lenticular; testa crustaceous, black, 
shining or dull; embryo annular, surrounding the floury albumen ; 
cotyledons linear; radicle descending or ascending. Distriz. About . 
35 species in tropical Asia, Africa and America. 
1, CaLosra ARGENTEA, Linn. Sp. Pl. 205(1753). A glabrous annual 
herb, reaching 30cm. to 1 m. in height ; stem erect, branches grooved. 
Leaves variable, linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate at apex and at 
base, glabrous, entire, 2—19 cm. long, 5—25mm. broad ; nerves irregu- 
- Jar; petiole 0 or very short and slender. Flowers in dense terminal 
cylindric spikes, 3 to 25 or more cm. long, at first pink then becom- 
ing shining white, sometimes branching at the apex cockscomb- 
fashion ; bract and bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate or awned, sca- 
rious,4—5mm.long. Perianth-lobes linear-lanceolate, sharply acumi- 
nate, scarious, about 8 mm. long, 3-nerved. Stamens with slender 
filaments about 3 mm. long, combined below in a cup 2 mm. deep ; 
anthers linear, 1— 1:5 mm. long, the bases finally divaricate. Ovary 
ovoid, very thin; style slender, 5 mm. long; stigma small. Ufricle 
3—4 mm. long, ellipsoid, tapering into the persistent style. circumciss 
about the middle. Seeds 4—8, lenticular, more or less compressed, 1—5 
mm. indiam. ; testa black, shining. Willd. Sp. Pl. I. 1197; Roxb. Fl. 
Ind. I. 678 and ed. Carey & Wall. II. 507; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. 
Fl. 215; Wight Ic. t. 1767; Wall. Cat. 6916; Bl. Bijdr. 543; Miq. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 1028 ; Mog.in DC. Prodr. XIII. 2. 242 ; Hook. f. in 
Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 714; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 393 ; Cooke Bomb. Fi. IT. 
' 486; Prain Beng. Plants 867; Engl. & Prantl Naturl. Pflanzen. 
fam. LIV. J.a. 99, t. 51. C. margaritacea, Yann. l.c. ; Wall. Cat. 
6917; Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 76; Baill. Hist. des Pl. IX. 157 tt. 228, 
229. ‘ Belutta-adeca-manjen’ Rheede Hort. Mal. X. 75,77. tt. 38, 
39. 
PERAK : river Pluss, Wray 45! Pananea: at Temerloh, Ridley 
2253! Matacca?: Griffith 4181-2! Distris. Throughout India. 
Ceylon, Tropical Asia, Africa, America: in fields, native country 
unknown. 
3. ALLMANIA, Brown. 
Erect or diffuse herbs. Leaves alternate; linear, obovate or 
spathulate, entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, in terminal and axillary, 
