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(1) D. BACCATA. (Wall.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. a. 2. p. 236.— Koxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 682. 



Syn. Celosia baccata, Betz dbs. v. p. 23. — D. celosioides, B. 

 Br. prod. I. p. 413. — D. Indica, Bhme. hijdr. p. 642. — Spreng. 

 syst. I. p. 816. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 728.— Eumph. Amb. V. t. 83. fig. 2. 

 — Bot. Mag. t. 2717. 



Spec. Chae. Stem suffl-uticose, angled, decumbent: leaves 

 ovate or cordate-ovate, acute : spikes elongated, lax, branched : 

 flowers shortly pediceUed, solitary, greenish: sepals afterwards 

 reflexed. 



Peninsula. Bengal. Silhet. Mowering in the cold season. 



GENUS II. CELOSIA. 



Pentandria IHonogynia* Sex: St/st: 



Beriv. Erom Kelos, burnt, the flowers of some species appear 

 singed. 



Gen. Chae. Flowers hermaphrodite, tribracteate : calyx 

 5-sepaled, sepals equal, erect, spreading : stamens connate below 

 into a small cup : anthers 2-celled, oblong : ovary 1-ceUed, 

 many-ovuled : style short or elongated : stigmas 2 — 3, smaU, 

 recurved : utricle subovate, transversely cut round, many-seeded, 

 more or less vn-apped by the calyx : seeds lenticular-reniform. 

 — Herbs or undershrubs, erect, glabrous : leaves alternate, often 

 running into the petiole : flowers showy and elegantly scariose, 

 heaped together in spikes or terminal and axillary panicles : bracts 

 concave, coloured, persistent. 



(1) C. AEGBNTEA. {Moq.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 242.— Eoxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 678. 



Ungrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1767— Burm. Ind. t. 25.— Eheede 

 Mai. X. t. 88. 



Spec. Chae. Herbaceous, branched, glabrous : leaves sub- 

 petioled, linear-lanceolate or nearly linear-acute : spikes terminal, 

 long-peduncled, ovate-cyhndrical or cylindrical, cuspidate : sepals 

 3 times longer than the bracts, erect, narrow, oblong-lanceolate, 

 slightly keeled, somewhat 3-nerved : utricle ovate, pear-shaped : 

 flowers small, white. 



Peninsula. Malabar. Bengal. Flowering in the cold 

 season. 



