$04 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNXA. Achyranthc*. 



Spikes crowded. Nectary ten-parted, alternately antheriferous. 

 Stigmas two-cleft. 



Illecebnun lanatum, iVilld. spec- i. 1204. 



Scheru-bula, Rheed. mah x. 57. t. 29. (good.) 



Cbeuopodium incanum, racemosum, folio majore minori opposi- 

 te, Burn, zeyi 60- t. 26. f. i. (good.) 



Ben*. Chaya. 



Is common every where, both on the Coast of Coromandel and 

 Bengal. 



A stout, hardy, annual plant, from one to two feet high, flower- 

 ing ail the jear round. — Stems erect, with many ascending, woolly 

 branches. — Leaves alternate, petioled, roundish, with somewhat of 

 a point, and tapering at the bass, entire, woolly on both sides ; size 

 very various. — Calyx woolly Nectary ten-toothed, as in A. scan- 

 dens. — Spikes axillary, oval, woolly. — Stigma two-lobed. — Capsules 

 with a single, smooth, shining black, reniform seed. 



06s. The late edition of the spec, plant, by Reichard, makes this 

 plant an lllecebrum ; for what reason I know not. 



12. A. diandra, R* 



Annual, diffuse. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolar. Spikes ter- 

 minal \flozcers reflected, and pressed close to the rachis. Staminm 

 two, alternate with the two multifid lobes of the nectary. 



A native of Ceylon. 



Root fibrous, annual, or at most biennial. — Stems slender, strag- 

 gling, striated, clothed with a few hairs pointing forward. — Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, linear-lanceolate, entire, nearly smooth. — 

 Spikes terminal, solitary, simple, long, and slender. — Flowers solita- 

 ry, small, after blossoming reflected back close to the rachis. — Brac- 

 tes (calyx r) three-leaved. — Calyx of five, rigid, smooth tapering, acute 

 leaflets. — Nectary two-lobed ; lubes finely and deeply multifid. — Ff 



• Centrostachys, "WalL— N. "W, 



