Achyranthcs. pentandria Monogynia. 499 



ly deflected and shuts up in the foim of a lengthened, shining point- 

 ed cone, about me- bird of an inch long, with gibbous base, supp'-rt- 

 ed by the persistent short biacfe , uid inserted on a fleshy rngose pro- 

 tuberance of the racbis; the upper st-g.neut ascends slightly in the 

 form of a Id. — Filaments rive, eiect, somewhat shorter than the flow- 

 er, yellow, shilling, unittd at the base into a short cup. — Anthers 

 erect, tw o-celled, orange-coloured. Lobes of the nectary rather short- 

 er than the filaments, alternating with them, double ; each cons stwsg 

 ot two paiallei membranous scales; the outer longer one hinged 

 Willi long dueads ; the inner scale much shor'ei bin broader, blunt, 

 entire. Uiaru obi ng, obtuse, je.lowbl), smooth, longer than the cup 

 formed of tiit buses of the filaments and nectary, one celled, its ample 

 cavity containing at the top a leniform ovulum winch is inserted, by 

 one tnd to the apex of a long, flethy, thread-shaped, free placenta, 

 which lises hum the bo:totn of the cavity. — Style « quailing tne sta- 

 mina, slender, smooth. Stigma entire, small, obtuse j appearing ca- 

 pitate when dried — Utriculus shining, oblong, sub-reniiorm, peifect- 

 ly smooth, about two lines long. Flacenta flattened. — Seed reuifoim, 

 lucid, occupying the whole cavity. Ferisperm snow- white, forumig 

 about one-halt of the s< ed, friable, consisting of a number of large, 

 subu'ate or obh ng bodies. — Embryo very large, almost entirely or- 

 bicular ; coiyleduns elongated; radicle ascending, protruding 1 near 

 thehiluin ol the s?ed, in other respect precisely like Achuranthes lap* 

 pacea, in GWtuei*8 carpology, 11. 214. t. 128. — M. VV. 



4. A. Moiisonia, R. 



Teiruiiilruns, cespitose, very ramous. Leaves subulate, tufted j 



spikes terminal, sub-cyundi ic. 



lilecebrum Monsonite, Linn Suppl. I6l. 



Celosia Monsonia, Relz. obs. ~. p. »3- Willd. spec. i. 1200 ; and 



" Ait. hew. i. 288. 



Amaranthoides spicatum Spergu'ae toliis, Ptuck. Almag Mantua. 



11. t. 334. f. 4.— Al.nath. 13. t. 357- f. 4. 



A native of Bengal and Coromaudel, whereat blossoms during the 



cool seasun. 



Kkk.2 



