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ends, very acute, mueronulate, pubescent : spikes alternate, some- 

 times opposite, solitary or twin, sessile or short-peduncled, 

 somewhat woolly : 2 outer sepals elliptic, 3 inner ones narrow- 

 lanceolate: bracts somewhat equal, ovate, whitish, lower one 

 villous, lateral ones glabrous : style short : stigmas very minute : 

 utricle orbicular, slightly compressed, glabrous : seed ovate-lenti- 

 cular, obsoletely 2-beaked, shining, black. 



Bengal. Bombay. Flowering from August to October. 



(4) M. LAJfATA. (Juss.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 303. — Eoxb. 1. c. p. 676. 



Syn. Achyranthes lanata, Lmn. — lUecebrum lanatum, lAwn. — 

 A. villosa, ForsJc. 



Ungrm. Wight's Icon. t. 723.— Eheede Mai. X. t. 29. 



Spec. Chae. Stem herbaceous, suffruticose below, ascending, 

 much branched, somewhat tomentose : leaves alternate, short- 

 petioled, obovate, mueronulate, pubescent on both^sides : spikes 

 solitary or biternate, sessile, ovate, woolly : flowers hoary white : 

 calyx twice as long as the apiculated bracts : sepals keeled, 

 2 outer ones lanceolate vrith whitish nerves, inner ones sub- 

 spathulate, greenish-nerved: utricles roundish, compressed, green : 

 seed reniform, shining, black. 



Peninsula. Malabar. 



(5) M, BEAOHIATA. {Mart.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 304. 



Syn. Achyranthes brachiata,ii»w. — Illecebrum brachiatum, do. 



Spec. Chak. Stems herbaceous, ascending, much branched, 

 glabrous, green : branches sometimes opposite and brachiate : 

 leaves oblong-ovate or obovate-oblong : spikes 3 — 4, subsessile, 

 oblong-linear or linear, villous, sessile in all the axils : bracts 

 ovate, whitish : flowers whitish : calyx thrice the length of the 

 bracts, sometimes 4 — 3-sepaled by abortion : staminodes a little 

 shorter than the filaments, very minute, somewhat triangular : 

 utricle orbicular, glabrous, green : seed very small, lenticular, 

 brownish-black. 



Bombay. Madras. 



(6) M. MoNSONiA. {Mart.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 305. 



Syn. Celosia Monsonia, Rete. — Illecebrum Monsonise, Linn. — 

 Achyranthes pungens, Lam. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 725. 



Spec. Chae. Stems sufiruticose, sometimes procumbent, very 

 flexuose, sometimes twisted, wrinkled, tomentose : leaves verti- 



