874 BENGAL PLANTS. (rua. 
1708. ASRUA scaANDENS Wall.; F. B. I. iv. 727; E. D. A. 558. 
Achyranthes scandens F. I. i. 676 
ehar; Chota Nagpur. 
A oa agai Beng. Nuriya. 
1709. Ainva LANaTA Juss.; F. B. I. iv. 728; E. D. A. 554 
Achyranthes ats F. ® 76. 
E. B sna Behar. 
An erect or prostrate eae me Chaya. 
1710. ARvA ‘Movsow A Mart. ; . 728. Achyranthes 
Monsonia F, I. i. 6738. 
W.B en, ot Chota Nagpur. 
A much-branched herb. 
7715. Achyranthes Linn. 
Herbs, sometimes woody below; leaves opposite, petioled, 
entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, in slender, simple and pan anicled 
spikes, soon deflexed ; bracts membranous, spinescent ; bracteoles 
Sc 
sepaline segments, somewhat connate below, subulate-lanceolate, 
aristate. Stamens 2-5; filaments filiform, subulate, connate at 
the membranous base, with as many panteaea, toothed or dorsally 
lamellate staminodes; anthers 2-celled, oblong or didymous. 
forming an oblong, subeompressed, 1-celled ovary ; ovule 
solitary, pendulous from a long, basal funicle; style filiform ; 
stigma capitellate. Fruit an oblong or ovoid utricle; apex 
roun areolate. Seed inverse, oblong; testa coriaceous; 
embryo annular, surrounding the floury albumen; cotyledons 
inear or lanceolate; radicle erect. 
Outer sepal long, pungent, exceeding the others; leaves elliptic-lance 
late, acumina ska an aquatic plant of swamps and river-banks.. nae 
Sepals subequ 
Bracteoles re aa with a spine as long as or longer than theif 
blade ; staminodes fimbriate :— 
Leaves rates rigid, velvety tomentose or rarely glabrate, pesto 
eld or ello er obtuse or acute, not acuminate; rachis sp 
rigid ; a weed of roadsides and waste places a ‘abger® 
Leaves me saiacibee anous, large, wide-elliptic, acuminate, sparingly 
pubescent or glabrous; rachis of spike slender; a ee sub- 
scandent herb in forest undergrowth ...aspera var. porphyrist 
Bracteoles reduced to a spine, minutely 2-auricled at the base ; panes 
