714 cxvi. AMABANTAOEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Deeringia. 



Tribe III. Gomplireneee. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary 1-ovuled ; ovule 

 suspended from a basal funicle. Leaves opposite. 



Staminal tube very short. Stigma subsessile, capitate . . . 16. Altebkaktheba. 

 Staminal tube long. St;le long. Stigma 2-fid 17. Gouchbbna. 



1. DEERINGXA, Br. 



Eambling or climbing sbrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled. Flowers 

 small, in simple or panioled spikes, 1-2-sexual. Sepals 5, oblong, spreading 

 in fruit. Stamens 4-5 ; antbers 2-celled ; staminodes 0. Ovary ovoid or 

 Bubglobose ; stigmas 2-4, subulate ; ovules few or many, funicle long. Fruit 

 a globose berry or circumsciss utricle, seated on tte spreading perianth. 

 Seeds few or many; radicle descending. — Species 5-6, Asiatic, Australian 

 and Pacific. 



D. celosioides, Br. Prodr. 413 ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate, racemes long panicled. Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 682, and Fd. TFall. S( 

 Carey, ii. 511 ; Wight Ic. t. 728 ; Wall. Cat. 6888; Dalz. Sf Oils. Bomb. 

 ^?. 214; Bot. Mag. t. 2717; Fndl. Iconogr.t: 62. D. baccata, ilfoy. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. 236. D. indica, Betz. in Blume Bijd. 542 ; Spreng. Syst. 

 i. 816. Celosia baccata, Betz. Obs. v. 23. Cladostachys frutescens, Bon 

 Prodr. 76, esocl. syn. — ^BUtum frutescens, Bumph. Serb. Amb. v. t. 83, 

 f. 2. 



SuBTKOFiOAi Himaiata ; from Simla to Bhotam, alt. 1-5000 ft. Assam, SiiniT, 

 Khasia Mts., alt. 0-4000 ft. CniTTAGONa and Lowee BENaAt ; at Pubna, J. D. B. 

 ^ T. T. Behab ; Monghir, Samilton ; and Rotas, J. D. S. PEau, WallicA. The 

 CoNCAN, Dalz. 4" Cfibs. (I have seen no specimen). — Disteib. Malay Islands, China, 

 Australia. 



Blackish or dark green when dry, subscandent, sometimes climbing 18 ft. high ; 

 branches long, arching. Leaves 2-4 in., base rounded or acute, rarely cordate ; petiole 

 ^lin. Spikes ii-W m. J'ioioer* greenish-white, ^ in. diam. ; pedicels short; bracts 

 acute. Berry globose, J-J in. diam., scarlet. 



2. CEXiOSXA, Unn. 



Usually annual berbs. Leaves alternate. Flowers clustered or spicate, 

 white or pink, shining. Sepals scarious, striate or ribbed. Stamens 6, 

 united below into a cup ; anthers 2-celled ; staminodes 0. Utricle cir- 

 cumsciss, sometimes corky or thickened. Seeds erect, testa crustaceous, 

 radicle inferior or asoening. — Species 30, tropical Asiatic, AJfrican and 

 American. 



* Spikes very stout ; flowers densely imhricate. Utricle acute; style 

 filiform, lengthening after flowering. 



1. C. arg'entea, lAnn. ; annual, glabrous, erect, leaves linear or lanceo- 

 late, spikes long-peduncled cylindric or oblong or ovoid, flowers ^-| in., 

 style filiform. Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 242 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 678, and 

 Ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 507 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 167 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. 

 -F/. 215; Wight let. 1767; Wall. Cat. 6916; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i^. 987. 

 0. linearis. Sweet SoH. Brit. 569. 0. margaritacea, £., Wall. Cat. 6917 ; 

 Don Prodr. IQ.—Bheede Kort. Mai. x. t. 38, 39. 



Throughout India and Cbtlon in fields, ascending the hills to 4000 ft. (nowhere 

 really indigenous).— Distbib. Trop. Asia, Africa, America, cultivated or introduced. 



