722 cxvi. AMABANTACE*. (J. D. Hookei.) [Amarantns. 



worth. The Carnatio JPerroitet — This is almost identical with A. grcecizans, Linn. 

 (A. BlUtim, var. grtBoizam, Moq. ; A. sylvestris, var. grtBcizans, Boiss.). 



10. A. tenuifollus, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 381 ; glabrous, branches many 

 spreading from the root prostrate or ascending, leaves small petioled 

 Hnear-oblong or widened to the rounded obtuse or 2-lobed tip, clusters 

 minute all axillary, sepals 2 oblong concave nearly as long as the orbicular 

 compressed membranous indehiscent utricle. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 602 ; Wight 

 Ic. t. 718 ; Wall. Cat. 6893, excl. E. A. angustifolius, Roxb. mss. Mengea 

 tenuifolia, Moq. in BO. Prodr. xiii. 2, 271 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 218. 



Bensai;, the Ganoetio Vallet .and Panjab. — Disteib. Tropical Africa. 



Branches slender, 6-18 in., leafy. Leaves very variable, J-1 in. long, narrowed 

 into the petiole. Clusters smaller than in any other species, green. Stamens 2. 

 Utricle plicate when dry. Seed ,', in. diam., brown, lenticular, border obtuse. 



nouETFUii species. 



A . ATEOSUEPUEETTS, Roxl. Fl. Ind. 688, is a garden plant, possibly a form of 

 A. oleraeeus. 



A. CAMPESTEIS, Willd. Sp. Fl. iv. 382; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 264, is 

 undeterminable, 



A. EtTBElOAUMS, Page Sort. Angl. (fid. Moq. I. u. 267) name only, is inde- 

 terminable. 



8. CYATKUIiA, Lour. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers clustered, clusters 

 solitary spicate and reflexed in fruit, or in dense globose solitary or spicate 

 heads ; perfect flowers 1-2 in each cluster, surrounded by imperfect ones 

 reduced to sepals with rigid hooked awns. Sepals 5, scarious, 1-nerved, 

 acuminate or with hooked ngid awns. Stamens 5, connate, united below with 

 the linear lacerate or 2-fid staminodes into a cup ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 

 obovoid ; style filiform, stigma capitellate ; ovule 1, pendulous from a long 

 basal funicle. Utricle OYoiA, indehiscent, topareolate. Seei inverse, oblong, 

 testa coriaceous ; embryo annular, cotyledons linear flat. — Species 10, tropical 

 Asia, Africa and America. 



* Clusters o^ flowers in large globose heads. 



1. C. tomentosa, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 327; densely tomen- 

 tose or woolly, leaves short-petioled elliptic acute or acuminate, base acute, 

 heads globose spicate. 0. Sequax, Moq. mss. Achyranthes tomentosa, 

 Soth Nov. Sp. 167; Wight Le. t. 1781. A. Sequax, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Lnd., 

 Fd. Carey Sf Wall. u. 506. Desmochaeta tomentosa, Roem. Sf Sch. Syst. v. 

 654. Polysoelis Sequax, Wall. Cat. 6939. 



Tempeeate Himalaya ; from Dalhousie to Bhotan, alt. 2-6500 ft., Wallieh, &c. 

 . KhasIa Mts., alt. 2-5000 ft. 



A straggling nndershrnb, variable in density of tomentum ; branches strict, 

 obtusely 4-angled. Leaves 2-10 in., rarely orbicular or elliptic-lanceolate, pubescent 

 or glabrate above, often velvety or subsilky beneath ; petiole J— J in. Spikes 2-6 in. 

 long peduncled ; heads close or distant, 1-1 J in. diam., white, glistening; bracts ovate 

 below, back hairy. Sepals i-| in., linear-lanceolate, 2 or all ending in hooked awns, 

 lengthening in age. Staminodes fimbriate. Anthers linear. " Utricle 2-nerved ; 

 seed ovate shining," Wallieh. — I find no seed in any of the numerous specimens. 



2. C. capitata, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 329 ; sparsely hairy, leaves 

 short-petioled elliptic subcaudate-acuminate, base acute, heads globose sub- 



