868 BENGAL PLANTS. [Digera. 
769. Digera Forsk. 
Annual herbs with angular branches ; leaves alternate, ee 
entire. Flowers in axillary, peduncled spikes, ternate, the 
outer reduced to crested scales, the central perfect ; bracts ond 9 
bracteoles subherbaceous. Perianth submembranous, ni 
segments 5, slightly connate ae nis erect, the outer 
larger, erect in fruit. Stam 5, hypogynous ; aioe free, 
filiform ; anthers didymous, 2. fe a Ceeuals forming an oblong, 
compressed, truncate, 1-celled ovary; ovule solitary, erect, funicle 
short; style filiform; stigmas 2, short, recurved. Fruit a sub- 
globose, crustaceous nut, included in the perianth, slightly com- 
ressed, sides ridge Seed erect, subglobose; testa brown, 
adnate to albumen ; eee annular; cotyledons linear; radicle 
descending. 
1694. penn ARVENSIS ; F.B. I. iv. 717; E. D. D. 420. 
Achyranthes saaitie: Kr I. i 
In ‘ies of the provinces. 
A rate annual field-weed, sometimes becoming 
perennial by waysides. Beng. Luta mahauria, gun- 
alii ; Santal. Kari gandhari. 
770. Amarantus Linn. 
Annual, erect or decumbent herbs; leaves alternate, pets to 
the base, entire or lobed. Flowers small, monccious, axillary 
clusters or cree terminal sacepa bracts herbaceous, “tbe per- 
sistent ; bracteoles 2. ¢ Perianth of 5, rarely 1-3 membranous, 
equal or tea equal, ails Va Ae: segments. Stamens 5, 
rarely 1-3; filaments free, subulate or filiform; anthers oblong or 
linear, 2-celled. % Perianth-segments oblong or spathulate, in 
fruit erect, sometimes coriaceous and usually persistent. Carpels 
forming an ovoid, compressed, 1-celled ovary; ovule solitary, 
osu cul pitt ; style short or 0; stigmas 2-3, pichisee or fili- 
or papillose. Fruit an orbicular or ovoid, com- 
sbaad euiad or a circumscissile, ieee: or coriaceous 
capsule, with entire or 2-3-toothed apex. Seed erect, orbicular, 
compressed ; testa crustaceous; embryo annular, enclosing the 
floury albumen ; cotyledons linear; radicle inferior 
*Bracts awned or setaceous, equalling or exceeding the eee utricle 
dehiscent, circumscissile ; leaves long-petioled :—[p. 86 
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