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(1) A. SESSiLis. (B. Br.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 357.— Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. p. 678. 



Byn. Gromphrena sessilis, lAnn. — Aehyrantlies ficoidia, Lam.—- 

 A. triandra, Lam. — Paronycliia tetragona, Moench. — P. seasilis, 

 Besf. — Achyranthes triandra, Boxh. 



Ikigrav. Wight's Icon. t. 627.— Eheede Mai. X. t. 11.— 

 Eumph. Amb. VI. t. 15. fig. 1.— Burm. Zeyl. t. 4, fig. 2. 



Spec. Chae. Stem herbaceous, suddenly branched, articulate, 

 bifarious, pubescent : leaves ovate-lanceolate, opposite, attenuated 

 below, entire at the margin, glabrous : heads of flowers much 

 shorter than the leaves, 2 — 4 together : sepals ovate : staminodes 

 as long as the filaments, longish, very acute, entire : calyx 2 — 3 

 times longer than the lateral bracts : utricle a little longer than 

 the calyx, obcordate, compressed, acute lengthways on the 

 margin, somewhat wrinkled: seed ovate, much compressed, 

 scarcely shining, yellowish : flowers small, white. 



Peninsula. Malabar. Flowering in the rainy and cold season. 



GENUS XVIII. GOMPHEENA. 



Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 



Leriv . Prom Oomphos, a club, alluding to the globose head of 

 flowers. 



G-EN. Chab. Plowers hermaphrodite or polygamous by abor- 

 tion, tribracteate ; calyx 5-sepaled, rarely 5-cleft, sepals equal or 

 unequal, villous or glabrous: stamens connate into a tube or 

 cupula, 3-cleft at the apex, the intermediate lobe antheriferous, 

 lateral ones shorter or larger, fimbriated or entire : staminodes 

 none : anthers 1-celled ; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled : style none or 

 elongated : stigma capitate, undivided or slightly 2-lobed, or 2 

 stigmas shortened or long-linear: utricle 1-seeded, enclosed in 

 the calyx. 



(1) G. HispiDA. (Linn.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 411. 

 Engrm). Eheede Mai. IX. t. 72. 



Spec. Chae. Stem geniculate, fruticoae, tetragonous, branched, 

 hispid : leaves oblong, opposite, narrow, acute, eroso-crenate, with 

 a few slight hairs: peduncles simple, rarely 3-cleft: heads of 

 flowers terminal, erect, solitary, diphyUous : flowers white, after- 

 wards bluish : sepals cuspidate. 



Malabar. 



