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emarginate, terminating in a minute point : heads of flowers 

 lateral or terminal, peduncled, somewhat globose, compact: 

 flowers short-pedicelled : sepals scarcely exceeding the bracts, 

 very acute, slightly keeled, 1-nerved : utricle ovate. 



In sandy soils near the sea-coast, flowering during the rains 

 and cold season. 



(2) 0. NODii'LOEA. (Mart.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 249.— Eoxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 678. 



Syn. Celosia nodiflora, Linn. — Achyranthes nodiflora, Bosch. 

 — Allmannia nodiflora, B. Br. 



JEngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1770.— Burm. Zeyl. t. 5, fig. 2. 



Spec. Chab. Herbaceous, ascending, branchy, glabrescent: 

 leaves spathulate or wedge-shaped or oblong, obtuse, with a short 

 point, glabrous or more or less pubescent : heads of flowers 

 globose, lateral, and subsessile, or terminal and short-peduncled : 

 flowers whitish-green, shortly pedicelled : sepals somewhat longer 

 than the bracts, acuminated, keeled, 1-nerved : utricle globose. 



Coromandel coast, in sandy soils. 



(3) C. DICHOTOMA. (Moq.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 249. 



8i/n. Celosia dichotoma, Heyne in Both. 



Bngrav. Wight's Icon, t, 1771. 



Spec. Chae. Suffrutieose or herbaceous, dichotomously 

 branched : leaves ovate-oblong, obtuse, short-pointed, pubescent, 

 finely eiliate : heads of flowers lateral, subsessile, globose, dense : 

 flowers greenish-yellow, short-pedicelled : sepals equalling the 

 bracts, keeled ; keel rough : utricle globose : seed smooth. 



Courtallum. 



(4) C. ASPEEA. {B. W.) 

 Ident. Eoth. nov. spec. p. 173 No. 3. 

 Migrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1772. 



Spec. ChaS. Stems herbaceous, branchy, ascending or more 

 or less diffuse, rough with bristly hairs, or in old plants innocuous 

 prickles : leaves hispid, subsessile, from linear blunt to oblong- 

 lanceolate pointed : heads of flowers subsessile, globose, dense : 

 bracts as long as the sepals, aristate, pilose : sepals keeled, hairy 

 on the keel : utricle ovoid. 



Ooimbatore. Mysore. 



