490 pentandriA monogynia.. Jlohyrantkes. 



Found wild hi various parts of India, in flower, and with ripe seed 

 most part of the year. 



Stems nearly erect. Branches few, and nearly erect, all the most 

 tender parts very hoary, indeed white ; general height from three 

 to five feet — Leaves alternate, sub-sessile, narrow-lanceolate, entire, 

 hoar}'' ^-Panicles terminal, composed of, alternate, sessile, incurv- 

 ed, cyiiudric spikes, completely crowded with numerous, small, 

 white flowers.— Calycle two or three, broader, smooth, hyaline 

 scales. Calyx five-leaved; leaflets lanceolate, hyaline, very wool- 

 ly toward the base <m the outside; three of the five rather narrower, 

 and with a little green in the centre, — Nectary a short, ten-toothed 

 cup round the germ. — Filaments no other than the teeth of the nec- 

 tary. Anthers could not be detected, yet the seeds are fertile, — • 

 Germ superior, obcordate, one-celled, one-seeded. Style short. 

 Stigma two-cleft ; segments hairy, and recurved in opposite directi- 

 on. — Utriculus an entire, one-celled membrane. — Seeds solitary. 



Obs. From the above description it appears evident that this plant 

 is clearly an Achy r ant hes ; having the entire membranaceous utricu- 

 lar capsules of that genus, containing a single, lenticular, reniform, 

 highly polished seed, with central perisperm, and peripherical em- 

 Vryo-^ 



. £. A. aspera, Willd. spec. i. 1 191. 



Biennial, sub-erect, ramous. Leaves opposite, obovate, downy. 

 Spikes most long, with flowers retrofracted. 



Sung. OTTJFI3?*, k'pamarga, ^^"f^:, Shikhurika, ^fHTTtW*, 

 Dhamanravfl, TRlT^:, Muyoovuka, IT^TOT^ff, Pjietyiikpternee, 

 ^lltHWf, Keeshnpimiee, f^foTft, K^neo, ^JTl^t, Khuru- 

 niwnjwree, fj=p§T|f:, Shikhywnga, OTS*:, C/pudha, ^^:, Shwlya, 

 J?fe\ Murkutee, ^fi%T, Boorpuh*, fa^fo Shikharee, ST^ 

 ^aft, Pratyiikpooshpee, 3OTRTO5:, Kandakunta, ^^H^Tf : s 

 Doorubhigruha, **«* VMm* TO^l, P">akpo s'hpee, 

 * Jussieu considers this as belonging to Acrua of Forskael.-A. javanic; Sjst, Y.* 

 5S5.-T- N. W. 



