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Penanc: Curtis 17! 944! Deschamps! Mauacca: Griffith! G. 
King! Harvey! Hullett! Prax: Scortechini!; at Jenah, etc., Wray 
1754! 3489! 3494! Jonore: at Kota Tingji, Ridley 5726 !—DisrTrip. 
India, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago (Java, Forbes 535! Sumatra, Forbes 
1242 !) and through the tropics of the World. 
6. Purasia, Juss. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite, petiolate, entire. Flow- 
ers green, hermaphrodite, fascicled in simple or paniculate spikes, 
fascicles with 1—2 perfect flowers, the rest imperfect; bract and brac- 
teoles scarious, awned. Perianth-segments of perfect flowers 5, nearly 
equal, lanceolate, acuminate, 3—5-nerved ; those of imperfect flowers 
_ reduced to awns with spreading hooked bristles. Stamens 5; filaments 
slender, subulate, shortly combined at the base; anthers 2-celled ; sta- 
minodes 0. Ovary ovoid, I-celled; ovule 1, pendulous from a long 
basal funicle; style simple; stigma capitate. Fruit an ovoid mem- 
branous compressed utricle, enclosed in the perianth, the top areo- 
late. Seed inverse, lenticular, rostellate ; testa thinly crustaceous; 
tegmen membranous ; embryo annular ; cotyledons linear-oblong, flat, 
surrounding the farinaceous albumen ; radicle ascending.—DistTRIB : 
Species 5, Asiatic and African. 
J. PUPALIA ATROPURPUREA, Mog. in DC. Prodr. XIII. 2. 331 
(1849). A slender, erect, annual or biennial, herb reaching 60 to 150 
em. in height ; branches long, straggling or semi-scandent, glabrous, 
often tinged with purple. Leaves membranous, ovate or elliptic-lanceo- 
late, acuminate and mucronate at apex, suddenly contracted at base; 
both surfaces glabrous or nearly so, white-puncticulate when dry ; 
2—10 cm. long, 1—5 cm, broad; main nerves distant, about 6 pair; 
petiole slender, 6—18 mm. Jong. Flowers in sessile clusters in lax- 
pedunculate terminal spikes, up to 25 cm. long; bracts small, ovate ; 
acuminate, persistent on the rachis; bracteoles 2, larger, ovate, 
strongly keeled and mucronate, 4 mm. long, deciduous with the 
flower cluster. Perianth-segments 5, ovate-lanceolate, mucronate, 4 
mm. long, lanate, 3—5-nerved ; those of imperfect flowers reduced to 
elochidiate purple hocked awns. Stamens 5; anthers suborbicular, 
minute; filaments slender, very thin, joined at base in a shallow 
hyaline cup. Ovary obovate ; style slender, persistent in fruit. U/tr- 
cle very thin. Seed oblong, 1—2 mm. long, truncate at both ends ; 
testa black, crustaceous; tegmen membranous; cotyledons short; 
radicle thick and long. Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 219; Mig. FI. 
