726 cxvi. AMAEANTACBiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Fsilotrichum. 



675, and ^d. Carey Sf Wall., ii. 502. Leiospermum ferrugineum, Wall. Cat. 

 6923. 



Bengal ; a weed in the gardens and cultivated lands of Calcutta, 'Roxburgh. 



Wallich's specimen forms an excessively branched prostrate mass 9 in. diam., with 

 divaricate branches and linear-oblong leaves l-lj in. long. SpiJces J in. long, dense- 

 fld., yellow when dry. — Roxburgh's description applies more nearly to P. trichotomum 

 in the form of the leaves, and Wight's figure, copied from Roxburgh's drawing, and 

 which shows acuminate sepals, is, I think, certainly taken from the latter plant. 

 There are no indications in Wallich's specimens gathered in the Calcutta Garden of 

 the rust-poloured stem, reddish leaves and dull red flowers described by Roxburgh. 



11. PSXXiOSTACKYS, Rochst. 



Slender dichotomous herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers minute, spicate 

 at the tips of the filiform branches of a lax panicle. Sepals 5, 2-3 enter 

 convex, strongly 3-nerved, inner narrower. Stamens 5, free ; anthers 

 2-ceIled; staminodesO. O^oj-yroundedor ovoid, compressed; style slender ? 

 stigma capitellate. Utricle indehiscent. Seed inverse, testa coriaceous; 

 embryo hooked, cotyledons slender. — Species 3, Indian, Arabian and 

 African. 



P. sericea, Sook.f.in Gen. Plant. Hi. 32; stem erect, viUons with 

 long hairs, leaves orbicular-ovate acute densely villous above silky beneath, 

 peduncles very long axiUary filiform, pedicels capillary, spikes 4r-Q fld. 

 Achyranthes sericea, Koen. in Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 675, and Ed. Carey Sf 

 Wall. ii. 502,; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 318 ; Wight Ic. 726; Wall. Cat. 

 6930. Fsilotrichum sericeum, Dalz. in Balz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. PI. 216. 



GoozEBAT ; sandy hills on the coast of Kattiawar, Dalzell (and Koenig ?). 



Annual p Stem stout, hard, terete ; hairs patent, \ in. long, flexuous, terminating 

 in a lax panicle of erecto-patent opposite branches 2 in. long, which divide at the tip 

 into capillary pedicels bearing the spikes. Leaves 1 in., thick, base rounded or cor- 

 date ; petiole very short. Spikes J-J in., rachis capillary zigzag ; flowers ^ in. long. 

 Sepals ovate-lanceolate ; outer pungent, deeply ribbed, silky. — A very beautiful 

 plant ; it is not known where Koenig procured it, if indeed he did himself procure it. 

 The specimen in the Wallicbian Herbarium is marked " Herb. Koenig." 



12. N0TK0SS:RVA, Wight. 



An annual with opposite spreading branches. Leaves opposite. Plowers 

 most minute, woolly, in axillary solitary or clustered spikelets. Sepals 

 8-5, hyaline, obtuse, 1-nerved. Stamens 1-2, free ; anthers 2-celled ; stami- 

 nodes 0. Oaary oblong, compressed ; stigma subsessile, capitellate; ovule 1, 

 pendulous from a long basal funicle. Utricle oblong, compressed, indehis- 

 cent. Seed inverse, lenticular, testa orustaceous ; embryo hooked, cotyledons 

 linear. 



M. brachiata, Wight Ic. vi. 1. Pseudanthus brachiatus, Wight 

 I. c. t. 1776, excl. analyses, and v. 3, t. 1776 bis, B. Mrua. brachiata, 

 Mart. Beitr. Amarant. 83, n. 3 ; Moq. in, DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 304 (incorrect 

 as to staminodes) ; jDalz. 6f Gibs. Bomb. PI. 217. .33. chenopodiifolia, Bofer 

 Sort. Maurit. 268. Achyranthes brachiata, Linn. Mant. 50 ; Both Nov. 

 Sp. 169. Illecebrum brachiatum, Linn. Mant. 23. Amarantus minutus, 

 Leschen. mss. 



Uppee Gan&etic Vailet and the Panjab, from Moradabad north-eastward. 



