14 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Ind. Bat. I. 1046; Hook.f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 723 ; Trimen FI. Cey]. ITI. 
399 ; Cooke, Bomb. FI. II. 497; Prain Beng. Plants 872. Achyran- 
thes lappacea, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2. 95. excl. Syn. Hd. 1; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
I. 675, and Ed. Carey and Wall. II. 500. A. atropurpurea, Lamk. 
Dict. I. 546. Desmocheta atropurpurea, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 102 ; 
Wall. Cat 6933 excl. K; Wight Ic. t. 731. ‘ Wellia Codiveli’ Rheede 
Hort. Mal. X. 117 t. 59. 
SINGAPORE AND Penanc: Wallich.—Disrrrs. India, Ceylon, Java, 
Madagascar, etc. 
7. PstLotricuum, Blume. 
Herbs or undershrubs, 3-chotomously branched. Leaves oppo- 
site, petiolate, entire. Flowers white or greenish, hermaphrodite, in 
axillary solitary or panicled spikes or clusters ; bracts small, chafty : 
bracteoles 2, small. Perianth-segments 5, slightly connate below. 
ovate, acuminate, ribbed. Stamens 5; filaments unequal, slender. 
connate below in a thin cup; anthers 2-celled; staminodes0. Ovary 
oblong or subglobose; style slender; stigma capitellate or 2-fid: 
ovule i, pendulous from a long basal funicle. Fruit a globose or 
compressed utricle, enclosed in the hardened perianth. Szed inverse, 
lenticular ; testa coriaceous or crustaceous ; embryo annular, enclosing 
the floury albumen ; cotyledons thin, flat; radicle ascending —DistrR1B. 
Species 10—12, Asiatic, African or Pacific. 
1. PSILOTRICHUM TRICHOTOMUM, Blume Bijdr. 545 (1826). A 
flaccid decumbent subglabrous annual herb 30—40 em. high ; branches 
erect, striate; nodes hairy. Leaves membranous; elliptic, elliptic-lan- 
ceolate or lanceolate, rarely obovate, acute at apex, narrowed at base, 
very pale when dry; 2—6 cm. long, 5—15 mm. broad; main nerves 
2—3 pair, oblique, obscure; petiole very short or 0. Spikes green, 
terminal, 5—15 mm. long; flowers reddish, crowded; bract chafiy, 
persistent on the pubescent rachis; bracteoles minute, deciduous 
with the flower. Perianth-lobes equal, hard, lanceolate, acuminate. 
glabrous, 3—5-nerved, 2 mm. long, persistent around the fruit. Sta- 
mens very small; anthers suborbicular: filaments very thin. Ovary 
globose; style short; stigma capitate. Utricle membranous. Seed 
small; testa black, shining. Mog. in DC. Prodr. XIII. 1.280; Hook. 
f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 725. Achyranthes? carnosa, Wail. Cat. 6931. 
Leiospermum ferrugineum, Wight Ic. t. 721. Ptilotus trichotomus, Miq. 
F]. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 1037. 
PERAK: in open ground on mountains at 250—300 m., King’s 
