477 
‘Gew. Car. Leaves opposite, but apparently verticillate ftom 
the presence of short axillary leafy branchlets: calyx 5-partite or 
deeply 5-cleft: sepals flat, membranaceous on the margin: petals 
5, almost hypogynous: stigmas 3: capsule I-celled, 3-sided, 3~- 
valved: seeds attached to a central placenta. 
(1) P. conymposa. (Lam.} 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 358.—Dee. prod, III. p. 374. 
Syn. P. spadicea, Lam. W. & A. prod. ¥. p. $57.—Achyian- 
thes coryiibosa, Wilid.—Polia arenaria, Lour.—P. Indica, Lam.— 
Celosia corymbosa, Willd. Roxb. fi. Ind. I. p. 681, 
-Engrav. Rheede Mal. X. t. 66.—Burm. Zeyl. t. 65. f. 2.— 
Wight’s Ill. II. t. 100.—-Icon. t. 712. 
Src. Cuar. Suffruticose: stems erect, with a few simple 
branches: leaves narrow-linear or setaceous, mucronate: sepals en= 
tirely scariose, lanceolate, acuminated, 2-3 times longer than the 
capsule : ¢ymes terminal, dichotomous: flowers reddish-brown. 
On the sea-shore, South Concan and Guzerat. Travancore. 
Deccan. Flowering in August. 
(2) P. pirrusa. (Wight. ) 
Ident. Arn. in Ann. of Nat. Hist. IIT. p. 91. 
Spec. Cuan. Sufffuticose, much branched, lax, diffuse, some: 
what glabrous : leaves fascicled, linear : flowers cymosely corymbose: 
sepals scariose, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate: petals somewhat equal- 
ling the sepals, slightly larger than the stamens and acute capsule; 
Tuticorin, 
(3) P. spicata. ( Wight.) 
Ident. Arn. in Ann. of Nat. Hist. III. p. 91, 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon, t. 510. 
Spxrc. Coan. Glabrous: stems many, slender, diffuse, bearing 
1+2 distant fascicles of leaves and peduncles: leaves radicle and 
eauline, fascicled, glaucous, somewhat’ fleshy, spathulate-oblong, 
acutish: flowers imbricated, spiked; spikes few, fascicled at the 
apex of the peduncle: sepals scariose, 1-nerved at the back, much 
larger than the subulate petals: filaments dilated at the base and 
cohering round the capsule in a ring together with the base of the 
corolla. 
Mountains of the Southern parts of the Peninsula. 
GENUS iI. HAPALOSIA. 
Triandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Hapalos, soft, probably in allusion to the texture 
of the plants. . 
