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(1) P. OEBICULATA. (JS. TF.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 330.— Wall, in Eoxb. flor. 

 Ind. ed. Car. II. p. 507. 



Syn. Cyathula orbiculata, Moq. — Achyranthes orbiculata, 

 Boxh. — A. rotundifolia, Klein. — Desmochasta orbiculata, Wall. 

 Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1783. 



Spec. Chae. Stem prostrate : leaves orbicular, retuse, acute 

 at the base, short-petioled, densely villous when young : fascicles 

 densely tomentose, many flowered, globular, remote, with long 

 brown bristles. 



Sandy soils near Madras. 



(2) P. ATEOPUEPUBEA. {BeC.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 331. 



Syn. Achyranthes lappacea, Imn.-rh.. atropurpurea. Lam. 

 — Celosia lappacea, Medio. Bot. p. 160. — Desmochseta atropur- 

 purea, B. W. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 731.— Eheede Mai. X. t. 359.— 

 Burm. Zeyl. t. 18, fig. 1. 



Spec. Chae. Stem suffruticose, subangled, striated : branches 

 purplish, hispid, pubescent : leaves opposite, ovate, hispidly rough, 

 dark green : calyx nearly twice as long as the bracts : sepals lan- 

 ceolate, lower ones a little shorter : glomerules 8 — 20 : bracts 

 long, acuminate, hispid, lateral ones broadly ovate : 'glochidea 

 15 — 20, long, dark purple, somewhat hispid below : seed elliptic, 

 compressed, somewhat shining, black: flowers small, dark purple. 



Courtallum, Malabar, and Coromandel coasts. Flowering in 

 the cold and rainy seasons. 



GENUS XVII. ALTEENANTHEEA. 

 Pentandrla Rfonogymia. Sex: Syst : 



Deriv. The name refers to the stamens being alternately 

 fertile and barren. 



Geit. Chae. Elowers hermaphrodite, tribracteate : calyx 5- 

 sepaled, sepals equal or unequal, glabrous or villous: stamens 

 connate in a cupula at the bage ; staminodes very small, dentiform 

 or unguiform, entire : anthers 1-celled, ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled : 

 style short : stigma simple or capitate, 2-lobed or double : utricle 

 ovate, 1-seeded, more or less enclosed ia the calyx ; seed vertical, 

 sublenticular. — Herbs, rarely undershrubs, much branched : stems 

 often articulated : leaves opposite : flowers arranged in terminal 

 or axillary heads : bracts concave, lower one persistent : stami- 

 nodes shorter than the filaments, more frequently entire, rarely 

 eroded or denticulate. 



