190 A FLORA OF MANILA 



5. Leaves alternate 6. Amaranthus 



5. Leaves opposite 6. Pupalia, 



4. Staminodes present. 



5. Perfect flowers 1 to 3 in each cluster, surrounded by several 



to many deformed ones 7. Cyathula. 



5. Flowers all perfect, no deformed ones. 



6. Sepals short, hyaline, woolly. 8. Aerua 



6. Sepals subulate-lanceolate, awned, shining, finally hardened. 



9. Achyranthes 



1. DEERINGIA R. Brown 



Rambling or climbing shrubs, with alternate petioled leaves. Flowers 

 small, 1- or 2-sexual, in simple or panicled .spikes. Sepals 5, eblong, 

 spreading in fruit. Stamens 4 or 5; staminodes none. Ovary ovoid or" 

 subglobose; ovules few to many; stigmas 2 or 4. Fruit a globose or 

 ovoid, fleshy, red or white berry. (In honor of Dr. Charles Deering.) 



Species 5 or 6, tropical Asia to Australia and Polynesia, 2 in the 

 Philippines. 



1. D. baccata (Retz.) Moq. 



A scandent, slightly pubescent or nearly glabrous vine, reaching a 

 length of 5 to 6 m, the branches drooping. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 

 entire, 7 to 14 cm long, acute or acuminate, base subtruncate. Racemes 

 ^lender, elongated, 20 to 40 cm long, in the upper axils, forming drooping, 

 leafy panicles. Flowers numerous, shortly pedicelled, greenish-white, the 

 perianth-segments about. 1.5 mm long, reflexed. Stamens white, erect. 

 Fruit ovoid, fleshy, red, about 4 mm long. (Fl. Filip. pi. 236.) 



In thickets, occasional, fl. Oct.-Jan.; widely distributed in the Philip- 

 pines. India to China, southward to Australia. 



2. CELOSIA Linnaeus 



Erect, simple or branched herbs, with alternate leaves. Flowers clus- 

 tered or spicate, white, pink, purple, or yellowish, shining. Sepals dry, 

 striate or ribbed. Stamens 5, united below into a cup; anthers 2-cened; 

 staminodes none. Utricle circumsciss. (Greek "a burning," in allusion 

 to the seared look of the flowers.) 



Species about 30 in most tropical countries, 2 introduced in the Philip- 

 pines. 



1. C. AEGBNTEA L. 



An erect, coarse, simple or branched, glabrous, annual herb 0.5 to 1.5 

 m high. Leaves linear to lanceolate, 4 to M cm lonp:. Spikes solitary, 

 erect, stout, dense, white or pink, ovoid to oblong-linear, 3 to 30 cm long, 

 about 1.5 cm thick, usually numerous, the flowers whit^ or pale-pink, 

 shining. Sepals about 6 mm long, a-ute or acuminate, the bracts shorter; 

 style elongated after flowering. Seeds shining, about 1.5 mm in diameter. 



In fallow lands, cultivated ground, etc., fl. Aug.-Fob.; widely dis- 

 tributed in the Philippines but certainly introduced. All tropical coun- 

 tries, probably a native of tropical America. 



In addition to the above the Cock's Comb (Celosia eristata L.) is not 

 uncommonly cultivated for ornamental purposes (Fl. Filip. pi. 6/t) ; it is 

 exceedingly variable with usually broader leaves than C. aryentea, and 



