rua.) AMARANTACES. 873 
773. Psilotrichum BI. 
Herbs or shrubs, 3-chotomously branched; leaves opposite, 
entire. Flowers small, all hermaphrodite, in axillary, solitary or 
li, hyali 
, panicled spikes or heads; bracts small, hyaline; bracteoles 2, 
small. Perianth of 5 sepaline, papery segments, slightly connate 
below, linear or ovate, outer boat-shaped, gibbous below, ribbed. 
Stamens 5 ; filaments unequal, linear or subulate, connate below 
in a hypogynous cup; anthers 2-celled, short or long. Carpels 
forming a subglobose or oblong, 1-celled ovary; ovule soli 
Pendulous from a long, basal funicle; style simple, slender ; 
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annular, enclosing the floury albumen; cotyledons thin, flat ; 
radicle superior. 
1707. Pstmorricnum rerRuGineUM Moq.; F. B. I. iv. 725. 
Achyranthes ferruginea F. I. i. 675 
- Beng undribuns. 
An annual, prostrate weed. Hind. Lal-sirinchi; Beng. 
Rakto-sirinchi. 
774. Afrua Forsk. 
Erect or prostrate or climbing herbs or undershrubs ; leaves 
alternate or opposite or whorled. Flowers minute or small, her- 
maphrodite or polygamous, in solitary or panicled spikes; bracts 
and 2 bracteoles small. Perianth short, sepaline, membranous or 
papery, 5- or rarely 4-lobed; segments equal or the outer wider, 
Circumscissile capsule with coriaceous apex. Seed inverse ; testa 
Coriaceous ; mbryo annular, surrounding the floury albumen ; 
cotyledons linear; radicle superior. 
Leaves alternate, or opposite and alternate mixed :— 
in termin 
Spikes in al panicles as well as axillary; leaves opposite and 
alternate mixed scandens 
Spikes all axillary, fascicled ; leaves all alternate Janata 
Leaves filiform in opposite fascicles; spikes peduncled ......... Monsonia, 
