728 cxvi. AMARANTACEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) [^lEma. 



Plains of BENflAii, and from Assam to the Pan jab ; ascending the Himaiata to 

 5000 ft. from Eumaon to Bhotan. Centbal India and Behab, and summit of 

 Farusnath. Cose AV, Stocks. V'Bgv , M' Clelland. Bubma, JFaHicA, &c. — Disteib. 

 China, Malay Islands, Philippines, E. and W. tropical Africa. 



Stem woody below ; branches straggling, several feet long. Leaves opposite and 

 alternate, soft, green, 1-4 in. long, sometimes almost rounded ; petiole i-| in. 

 Spikes sessile, rarely peduncled, i-1 in. Sepals ^ in. long, lanceolate. — Wight has 

 erroneously figured the utricle as circnmsciss and seed horizontal. I doubt if 

 ^. sanguinolenta, Blume, and JE. timorensis, Moq., differ from this. 



Vab. ? snhglohosa ; branches glabrous, spikes large subovoid or globose, ^-f in. 

 diam., on slender peduncles. — Mergui, Oriffith (in Kerb. Wight). — This resembles 

 very indifferent specimens of ^. seandens (^. veltitina, Moq.) from the Philippines 

 (Cuming, No. 1635), but the spikes are larger. 



3. Si. grlabrata, JSTooh. f. ; minutely hairy, leaves elUptic-ovate 

 subacute, spikes small cylindrio panicled or fascicled towards tlie ends of the 

 branches glistening, bracts ovate equalling the very minute flowers, sepals 

 broadly oblong-ovate obtuse or apiculate sparingly hairy. 



BuEMA or Malay Peninsttia, Griffith. 



Habit of M. seandens, but the flowers are very minute, about t'j in. long, with very 

 broad short and sparsely hairy bracts and sepals, the latter with usually a very broad 

 green midrib. Hance's A. seandens, var. from Canton, may be the same, but the 

 spikes are too young for comparison. 



** Spikes all axillary sessile. Leaves alternate. 



4. X. lanata, Juss. in Ann. Mus. xi. 131 ; erect or prostrate, branched 

 from the base, hoary tomentose, leaves small petioled elliptic orbicular- 

 obovate or orbicular obtuse or acute, spikes small very numerous oblong or 

 subcylindric densely woolly not glistening. Moq^. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 

 303; Wall. Cat. 6909; Wight Ic. t. 723; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 168; 

 Balz. S( Gihs. Bomb. Fl. 2V7 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iy. 993. M. floribunda, 

 Wi^Tit Ic. t. 1776, the analysis only, and vol. v. t. 1776 bis, i. A. Achy- 

 ranthes villosa, ForsTc. Fl. JEg. Arab. 48. A. lanata, Linn. Sp. PI. 296 ; 

 JRoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 676, and Fd. Garey Sj Wall. ii. 503. Illecebrum lauatum, 

 Linn. Mant. i4A.—Bheede Sort. Mai. x. t. 29 ; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 60, f. 1. 



Plains of Bengal from Dacca and Behar westward to the Indus. The Concan, 

 Central India, and throughout the DEOOAif. Ceylon abundant. — Distbib. 

 Westward to Arabia and tropical and S. Africa, Java, Philippines. 



Branches many, 6-10 in., from a woody stock, simple or divided, woolly. Leaves 

 \-\ in., woolly or glabrate. Spikes i-| in., sometimes excessively crowded and 

 forming subgloboae clusters. Sepals obtuse. — Wight's t. 723 is probably A. seandens. 



6. H:. Wlgrliitll, SooJc.f. ; branches short woody and leaves beneath 

 densely woolly, leaves small broadly ovate or elliptic obtuse thick, clusters 

 all axillary sessile shortly oblong or globose densely woolly not glistening, 

 outer sepals Unear-oblong aristate, inner obtuse. 



Teavancoee ; at Courtallum, Wight. 



A lowrgrowing bushy plant, 6-12 in. high, with many sti6F branches as thick as a 

 crow-quill, from a stout woody tap-root. Leaves 1 in. long, narrowed into a short 

 petiole. Clusters |-J in. long, with the acicular tips of the bracts and outer sepals a 

 little longer than the wool ; flowers ^ in. long. 



*** Spiies peduneled. Sepals 'I. Leaves JlUform in opposite fascicles. 



6. Hi. nXonsonia, Mart. Beitr. Amaranth 83 ; gtem hoary-tomentose 



