Ackyranthei. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA^ fiG5 



laments two, one in each fissure of the nectary, half as long as the 

 corol. Anthers incumbent. — Ctriculus turbinate. Seed solitary. 



13. A. triandra, R.* 



Annual, creeping. Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, smooth. 

 Flowers tiiandrous. Capsules winged. 



Illecebruiu sessile, IVilld. spec- i. 1209. 



Coluppa, Rheed mat. x. 31. t. 11. 



Amaranth us huniilis foliis oppositis, flosculis in alia conglomera* 

 tis, Burm.- zeyl. 17. t. 4./. 2. (good.) 



Telinga. Ponagunla-kura. 



Sung SCl^nl^ Shalancbi. 



Ben*. Shauchi. alio shalooncha. 



A native of Bengal where it is a common weed during the rainy 

 season. 



14. A. nodiftora, R. 



Annual, diffuse. leaves obovate, cuneate. Spikes globular. 

 Sectary with only five, amheriferous divisions. Stigma simple. 



Celosia imdiflora, fVilld. spec. i. 1202. 



Amaranthoides indicum, nodiflorum, capitulis exalbo viridescenti- 

 bus, Burm. zeyl. \6. t 5 f.Q- 



A native of Coiomandel. Flowers in the cold season. The ova- 

 rium in this plant contains but a single ovulum, attached to the bot- 

 tom of its single cell, consequently its place is in this genus to which 

 ] have transferee! it.f 



* Altemanthera sessilis, Brown — Svst. Veg. 1. c. 554. I Lave found it at Pinang.— It 

 Is also common at Silhet. — N. W. 



+ Ro\bnr^l)'s plant seems to differ both from Alternantliera, denticulate, and nodiflora, 

 Brown — Perhaps the variety with obverse] v lanceolate leaves, recorded b v Roth, >'oy . spec, 

 174, belongs to it. — N. W. 



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