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Saas ee 
865 
AMARANTACEZL. 
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Scarious, never leafy; bracteoles 2, scarious. sen se 
usually 5 free or slightly connate, hyaline or prees »P ee 
sepals, imbricate in bud, usually erect, equal, pone iasatia He 
smaller, Stamens 1-5, hypogynous or adnate to t a sadtudea 
perianth, always opposite the perianth-segments, ai i ‘Mifeane 
filaments rarely free, usually connate ry directly ise hue 
of interstaminal membranous staminodes seers few 
anthers dorsifixed, short and diiympaee or ae tae 366 me 
dehiscence introrse, longitudinal. Carpels solitary aa sities 
an ovoid, ellipsoid, or globose 1-celled ovary, free _— 
d 
icles; style 
basal, or suspended from short or long, free si i sr 
Sometimes simple or obsolete, with stigma capite : pill 
Sometimes 2-8-fid, with stigmas acute, or styles 2 se : nan son 
stigmatic on inner scot erect or re curved. Fruit a 
sla ular 
-shaped or annular, 
Pressed ; testa crustaceous ; embryo horseshoe-shap 
Surrounding a floury albumen. 
: ither fascicu- 
Leaves alternate, or, if opposite (Arua sometimes), are ek wien 
late and filifo orm, or with alternate leaves mixed with op 
shikics 2-celled :— 
Ovary 2-many-ovuled :— 
Deeringia 
Fruit a berry; shrubb Celestia 
Fruit membranous; herbs 
Ovary 1-ovuled :-— 
Ovules erect :— 
(tla ce fruit a cireumscissile utricle ...... EO EOD 
Flowers spicate ; fruit a crustaceous nut ......-+.+-+ Gace 
Flowers 1-sexual 
ens 
Ovules Suspended from a basal funicle; flowers perfect ; or LE 
ith interposed staminodes rom a 
Leaves kane not fascicled ; ovary 1-celled ; ovules suspended f 
basal funicle 
*Anthers 2-celled : :—[p. 866] 
tFlowers all perfect :—[p. 866] Ach 
Stamens with et staminodes “isi... . cise 
inodes 
