Achyranthes. Pentavdria monoOyniA.' 495 



foot broad. Rib protuberant, and pale — Petioles from three to six 

 feet long, the lower half sheathing, those within smooth in every 

 part. — Scape rising through the centre of the sheathing of the 

 petioles, and elevated but little above them. — Spadix about a 

 foot long, flexnose, hairy, compound, of from six to ten, alternate 

 bifarious branches. — Spath?s from six to ten, alternate bifarioua 

 diverging, smooth, lanceolate, boat-shaped, each embracing a small 

 raceme, of from six to twelve, pedicelled, pretty large, pale yellow 

 flowers, which expand in succession.— Bractes numerous, bifarious, 

 imbricated, linear-lanceolate, acute, villous, each of the most inferior 

 ones embraces a single flower ; the superior ones are smaller and abor- 

 tive Calyx none, except what I take for the corol be so called.—- 



Petals from six to three interior, and three exterior,unequaI in breadth, 

 but of the same length, linear-lanceolate, all united at the base. 

 Nectary or sterile-stamen, a single, oblong, acute leaflet, inserted 

 on the base of the largest of the three exterior petals, and into this 

 petal no stamen is inserted. — Filaments five, inserted on the base of 

 the petals on the inside. Anthers linear, erect, with their apices 

 nearly as high as the stigma. — Germ pedicelled, inferior, three-3ided, 

 three-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the bottom of its 

 cell. Style nearly as long as the petals. Stigma simple. 



ACHYRANTHES, Schreb. gen. 40*. 



Calyx five-leaved, and calycled. Corol none. Nectary and stigma 

 various. Germ superior, one-celled, one-seeded, attachment inferior. 

 Capsule utricular, one-seeded. Embryo annular, with central pet 

 risperm. 



1. A. incana, R. 



Annual, erect, hoary. Leaves lanceolar. Spikes panicled, teF» 

 minal. Nectaiy ten-toothed. 



lUecebrum javanicum, fVilld.spec.i. 1205. 



Jresine javanica, Burm. ind, 212, (by mistake 312) tab- 65. f. $,' 



