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rhomb-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate: spikes terminal, 

 thyraoid: bracts unequal, triangular-ovate, very acute, keeled, 

 very concave : flowers sessile, solitary or 3 — 4-glomerulate, straw- 

 coloured : sepals three times longer than the bracts, narrow- 

 lanceolate, slightly keeled, 3-nerved : cupula angled at the 

 margin : stamens shorter than the calyx : stigmas longish, revo- 

 lute: utricle ovate, greenish: seed obsoletely beaked, black, 

 slightly wrinkled. 



Neilgherries. 



GENUS IX. PSILOTEICHUM. 

 Pentandria Honogyn&a. Sex: Sy'st: 



Deriv. From Psilos, naked, and Thrix, hair, destitute of hairs. 



Gen. Chae. Flowers hermaphrodite, tribraeteate : calyx 5- 

 sepaled, sepals equal, glabrous, or slightly vUlous : stamens con- 

 nected below into a short cup ; staminodes none : anthers 2- 

 celled : ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled : style elongated : stigma simple, 

 capitate : utricle 1-seeded, perfectly enclosed in the connivent 

 sepals : seed ovate, lenticular. — Herbs or undershrubs, branched, 

 subtrichotomous, pubescent or glabrous : leaves opposite, petioled, 

 entire : flowers heaped together in terminal or axiUary spikelets : 

 bracts keeled, concave, lower one persistent, lateral ones de- 

 ciduous. 



(1) P. NrDrii. {Moq.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 279. 



Syn. Achyranthes nuda, Roicb. — A. montana, Klein. — A. poly- 

 gonoides, Heyne. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1775. 



Spec. Chae. Stem suffruticose, erect or sometimes cUmbing 

 among bushes : leaves short petioled, ovate-lanceolate or ovate- 

 acute, glabrous : spikes axillary, short : rachis flexuose : flowers 

 dense, very hairy : sepals much longer than the interior, short, 

 very broad, oblique acuminated bracts. 



In subalpine jungles of the Peninsula, sometimes climbing to 

 the extent of several feet among bushes or other supports. 



(2) P. FEEETJGINErM.. (Moq.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 279. 



Syn. Achyranthes ferruginea, iZoirJ.— Leiospermum ferru- 

 gineum. Wall. 



:Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 721. 



Spec. Chae. Stem herbaceous, ascending, striated, ferrugi- 

 nous: leaves short-petioled, or rotund-obovate, very obtuse, 



