Allmania.] AMARANTACES.. 867 
or short or long, sometimes elongating in fruit ; stigmas simple or 
2-3, subulate. Fruit a circumscissile capsule, ovoid or globose, 
acute or obtuse, sometimes corky or coriaceous. Seeds 2 or more, 
erect, lenticular; testa crustaceous, black, shining; embry: 
annular, surrounding the floury albumen; cotyledons linear; 
tadicle descending or ascending, 
Flowers white, glistening, -35 in. long or larger argentea 
Flowers pink, rose, or yellow, -25 in. long or smaller cristata 
1691. CeLosta aRGENTEA Linn. ; F.. 1. i. 6783) Bs T-iv. 74; 
C. 868. 
In all the provinces, cultivated and as an escape. 
An erect annual, 1-8 feet high. Hind. Debkoti, safed 
murgha-ka-phul; Beng. Swet murgha-phul; Santal. 
Sirgit arak’, 
1692. Cenosra crrsrara Linn.; F. I. i. 679; F. B. L. iv. 715; 
E. D.C. 873. C. cernua F. I. i. 680. 
In all the provinces, cultivated; occasionally as an 
escape. 
An erect annual, 2-3 feet high. Vernac. Murgha-ka-phul. 
768, Allmania R. Br. 
Erect or diffuse herbs ; leaves alternate, narrow, entire. Flowers 
hermaphrodite, white or greenish, in terminal and axillary, sessile 
or peduncled heads ; bracts subherbaceous ; bracteoles 2, scarious. 
Perianth-segments 5, free or nearly so, sepaline, scarious, equal, 
oblong-lanceolate, striate, erect in fruit. Stamens 5; filaments 
lated at base, connate in a membranous, hypogynous cup; 
anthers small, linear-oblong, 2-locular. Carpels solitary, forming 
an ovoid, 1-celled ovary, narrowed into a long, straight style ; 
ovule solitary, subsessile, erect; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a com- 
Pressed, subglobose, or ovoid, circumscissile capsule. Seed erect, 
subglobose ; testa black, crustaceous, shining, with a basal, cup- 
Shaped arillus; embryo annular, surrounding the copious, flcury 
albumen ; cotyledons linear ; radicle inferior. 
1698. Attu opirtora R. Br.; F. B. I. iv. 716. Achy- 
ranthes nodiflora F. I. i. 678. 
hota Nagpur; Behar; Tirhut; N. Bengal. 
A diffuse, dichotomously branched annual, 
