Achyranthea. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. *01 



Teling. Chancheli kura. 



Annual, common on most cultivated lands, in the botanic garden 

 at Calcutta it is a most troublesome weed. 



Stem when the plant is young, tolerably erect, but ever afterwards 

 prostrate, with longer, prostrate, striated, succulent branches.— 

 Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong, or ovate, pointed, sometimes a 

 little waved, margins coloured; below a little hairy, about two in- 

 ches long. — Petioles channelled. — Spikes axillary, twice as long as 

 the leaves or more. — Flowers solitary, alternate, small, red. — Bractes 

 three-fold, concave, one-flowered ; immediately within each of the two 

 lateial bractes is a compressed, ramous, green body. — Calyx five- 

 eaved ; the inner segments three-coloured. — Nectary no other than 

 the enlarged bases of the filaments. — Seed single, in its rugose utri- 

 cuius. 



The leaves and tender tops are used by the natives in their Cur- 

 ries. It ought to be carefully compared with A. muricata.* 



7. A. prostrala, H ; illd. spec. i. 1 194. 



Annual, diffuse. Leaves opposite. Spikes filiform. Flowers re- 

 flexed, with fascicles of bristles adjoining. Nectary with five bideu- 

 tate horns, alternating with the filaments. 



Scheru-cadelari, Rheed. vial- x. 157. *• 79- 



Auris caniua femina, Humph, amb. vi. 26. t. 11. 



Introduced into the botanic garden at Calcutta, amongst spice 

 plants from the Moluccas. Flowers during the cold season. 



Root ramous, annual. — Stem scarcely any, but several pairs of op- 

 posite,diffuse, round, smooth, coloured branches. — Leaves opposite, 

 sessile, oblong, entire, coloured. — Spikes terminal, solitary, filiform, 

 sub-erect. — Flowers scattered, reflected, generally two together. — 

 Bractes (or calyx) three to the two flowers, with the same number of 

 fascicles of hooked red bristles as in A. lappacea. — Nectary with five* 

 two-toothed hornlets, alternate with the filaments, and with them 



* This may be either Desmochaeta muricat/t, or alternifolia, De Cand (Sjst. Ve£. r. 

 552-3), or both.— Digera arvensis, Forsk. (A.pohjgonoides, Relz.) is Tery little if at all dif- 

 fer«at.— N. W. 



