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GENUS XV. CYATHULA. 

 Pentandria Momogynia. Sex: 



Beriv. The diminutive of Gyatlus, a cup. 



Gen Chab. Plowers temaplirodite, tribraeteate, slightly 

 ternate, intermediate one fertile, lateral ones sterile, at last 

 changed into hooked awns: sepals 5, l]i«P\d ; B^meiis connate 

 into a cupula at the base: stammodes denticulate at the apex, 

 simple, or produced at the back into an erect, slender, biligulate 

 appendage! anthers 2-ceUed: ovary 1-ceUed, 1-ovuled: styles hli- 

 form: stigma capitate: utricle oblong, 1-seeded, enclosed m the 

 calyx : seed oblong-ovate. 



(1) C. BROSTBATA. (JShime.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 326.-Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. 

 p. 674. 



Syn. Achyranthes prostrata, Linn.—G. geniculata, Low.— 

 Desmochaeta prostrata, B. JF.— Pupalia prostrata, Ma/rt. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 733.— Rheede Mai. X. t. 79. 



Spec. Chae. Stem herbaceous, perennial, prostrate, or ascend- 

 ing: branches subtetragonal, slightly hairy: leaves opposite, 

 obovate, pubescent, glaucous below : spikes virgate, slender, lax : 

 sepals lanceolate, hairy, interior ones narrower, 3-nerved, hispid : 

 staminodes minute, bifid at the apex : glochides 15 — 20, unequal, 

 hooked at the apex, hairy below, yellovrish: utricle glabrous, 

 greenish: seed ovate-oblong, shining, pale chestnut: flowers 

 greenish-red or purple or whitish- violet. 



Peninsula, flowering in the cold season. 



GENUS XVI. PUPALIA. 



Pentandria IMonogynia. Sex : Syst : 



Gett. Chae. Elowers hermaphrodite, tribraeteate, ternate, 

 middle one fertile, lateral ones sterile, changing into hooked awns 

 or acute spines : sepals 5 : stamens connate at the base : anthers 

 2-celled: ovary 1-ceUed, 1-ovuled: style elongated, filiform; 

 stigma capitate : fruit a utricle, oblong, 1-seeded, enclosed in the 

 calyx : seed subreniform. — Undershrubs, rarely herbs : branches 

 and leaves opposite, very seldom alternate :' flowers glomerulate, 

 erect. 



