866 BENGAL PLANTS. { Deeringia. 
{Flowers clustered, 1-3 perfect, surrounded by deformed ones:— 
[p. 865] 
ae with interposed staminodes ............-ssseeeeeeee Cyathula. 
Staminodes none Pupalia. 
Peat a ieee :—[p. 865] 
Staminal-tube short; stigma vias oy uy ... Alternanthera. 
Staminal-tube long ; stigma 2-fid ; G1ONE cin ssweces Gomphrena. 
766. Deeringia R. Br. ' 
Climbing undershrubs; Jeaves alternate, petioled. Flowers 
small, in simple or panicled spikes, hermaphrodite or polygamo- 
ate pian and 2 bracteoles scarious. Perianth-segments 5, 
sepaline, membranous or herbaceous, spreading in fruit, free and 
equal or nearly so. Stamens 4 or 5; filaments connate below in & 
hypogynous cup; anthers Leary oblong, 2-celled. Carpels con- 
nate in an ovoid or subglobose, sessile or substipitate ovary; 
ovules many or few, with elongated funicles; styles 2 or 4, sub- — 
ulate, connate atlas uniformly papillose throughout, or small, — 
sessile, and capitellate. Frwit a small, globose berry, or a circum: 
scissile capsule, seated on the spreading perianth. Seeds few oF 
any, reniform, compressed; testa black, shining; arillus 03 
embryo annular, surrounding the floury albumen ; ; cotyledons 
inear ; radicle des g. 
1690. Deerinea cetostores R. Br.; F. I. i. 682; F. B. L 
iv, 714. 
Behar; Tirhut; N. Bengal; C. Bengal; E. Bengal ; 
Chittagon: 
A slender, climbing shrub. Hind. Latman; Beng: 
Gola mohani. 
767. Celosia Linn. 
Herbs, vg annual; stems sometimes woody; leaves alter 
nate, usually petioled. Flowivte hermaphrodite, in dense termin 
and axillary phe sessile or shortly pedicelled, white or coloured; 
bracts scarious; bracteoles 2, scarious. Perianth of 5 segments, 
connate below, scarious, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute; — 
striate, erect in fruit. Stamens 5; filaments subulate or filiform, | 
connate below in a membranous, hypogynous cup ; ieee short — 
or long, 2-celled. Carpels connate in a 1-celled, ovoid or sub- — 
globose or obovoid ovary ; ovules 2 or more, funicles long; style 
