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GENUS XI. MEUA. 

 Pentandrla Honogynla. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. IVom Uroua, its Arabic name. 



Gen. Chab. Mowers hermaphrodite, tribracteate : sepals 5, 

 equal, erect, wooUy : stamens adhering at the base : stamiaodes 

 dentate: anthers 2-celled: ovary 1-celled, 1-OTuled: style very 

 short: stigmas 2, very small: utricle 1-seeded, enclosed in the 

 calyx: aril none. — Herbs or undershrubs, more or less white, 

 tomentose : leaves alternate, sometimes opposite, rarely verti- 

 celled: flowers densely heaped together in terminal or axillary 

 spikes : bracts concave, persistent. 



(1) M. rLOEIBTJNDA. {WigJit.) 

 Ident. Wight's Icon. V. t. 1776. 



Spec. Chae. . Herbaceous, diffuse, procumbent, pubescent : 

 leaves alternate, short-petioled, elliptic or obovate, obtuse, pube- 

 scent above, villous beneath: spikes axillary, solitary or 2 — 3- 

 together, very woolly : bracts broad-ovate, mucronate, pubescent 

 on the nerve : sepals very woolly on the back : staminodes equal- 

 ling the filaments : stigma deeply 3-cleft, lobes reflexed. 



Courtallum. Mysore. Coimbatore. 



(2) M. Jatanica. (Juss.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 299.— Eoxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 

 495. 



Syn. Iresine Javanica, Burm. — Celosia lanata, Liwn. — lUe- 

 cebrum Javanicum, Alton. — .^Erua tomentosa, ForsJc. — Achyran- 

 thes alopecuroides, Lam. — A. Egyptiaca, Qmel. — A. Javanica, 

 Fers. — A. cana, Moacb. 



Ungrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 876.— Burm. Ind. t. 60. fig. 2. 



Spec. Chab. Herbaceous : stem rigid, 1 cubit, erect or 

 ascending, tomentose, hoary : leaves short-petioled, obovate- 

 lanceolate, tomentose : spikes alternate, very flexuose, solitary, 

 sessile, woolly, upper ones 15 — 20, arranged as a large lax panicle : 

 flowers white : bracts glabrous, whitish : utricle oblong, green. 



Malabar. Peninsula. Oude. Flowering all the year. 



(3) M. SCAWDENS. {Wall.) 



Dec. 1. e. p. 802. 



Achyranthes scandens, Boxb. 



Ungram. Wight's Icon. t. 724. 



Spec, Chab. Suffruticose, scandent, pubescent, green : leaves 

 alternate, short-petioled, elliptic or oblong, acuminated at both 



