Order I. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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3139 Stems creeping. Leaves rounded fleshy, Heads solitary terminal oblong 
3140 Stem erect shrubby. Leaves ovate oblong acuminate. Heads round stalked leafless 
3141 Stem |-shrubby spreading smooth, Leaves opp. ovate acum. roughish. Flowers with long purple bristles 
3142 Stems shrubby prostrate, Leaves opposite ovate. Fascicles of flowers remote spreading at length reflexed 
3143 Stem shrubby spreading, Leaves alternate ovate naked, Fasc. of flowers remote ovate. Bristles callous 
3144 Stem erect, Leaves alternate ovate smooth, Racemes many. Fascicles ovate remote, Bristles callous 
3145 Stem shrubby spreading pubescent. Flowers in round prickly spikes 
3146 Stems filiform smooth. Leaves roundish. Calyxes 5-cornered bearded 
3147 Stem branched erect, Leaves rounded smooth bearded, Flowers cymose, Bractes very short 
3148 Stem branched prostrate. Flowers clustered axillary naked. Calyxes ventricose beneath hairy 
3149 Heads sessile. Flowers smooth three times as long as utricle, Leaves ovate mucronate unequal 
3150 Stems creeping hairy. Leaves broad lanceolate stalked, Heads round naked 
3151 Heads subsessile, Calyx ovate acuminate nearly as short again as utricle. Leaves ovate lanceolate 
3152 Stems creeping smooth, Leaves broad lanceolate stalked. Heads round pubescent 
3153 Leaves ovate lanceolate deflexed, Flowers axillary clustered, Cal. spiny. Stem tomentose dichotomous 
3154 Stems rising, Leaves carinate oblong ciliated at base. Flowers terminal mixed among the bractes 
3155 Stems sub-erect much branched, Leaves spreading villous, Bractes very large concealing the flowers 
3156 Stems diffuse. Leaves ovate. Flowers heaped, Bractes shining 
3157 Flowers surrounded by shining bractes. Stems procumbent, Leaves smooth 
3158 The only species 
3159 Stem dichotomous, Leaves lanceolate : of the stem opposite, of the branches altern. Flowers sol. axillary 
3160 Stem herbaceous erect. Flowers lateral woolly. Leaves alternate ovate 
3161 Leaves lanceolate downy, Spikes cylindrical numerous terminal 
3162 Leaves ovate oblong. Stem rising panicled, Spikes alternate terminal remote 
3163 Leaves ovate acuminate flat, Raceme loose, Bractes scarious. Pistil trifid 
3164 Shrubby smooth, Cauline leaves spatulate. Stem leaves lanceolate. Flowers heaped spiked 
3165 Half shrubby erect. Branches diffuse. Leaves nearly opp. hastate entire smooth 
3166 Shrubby erect. Branches unarmed. Leaves entire linear oblong and lanceolate flat beneath powdery 
3167 Leaves cordate acuminate. Raceme spiked loose. Flowers trigynous 
3168 Stems depressed jointed smooth, Leaves oval obtuse entire red at edge 
3169 Leaves linear lanceolate, Stipules falcate. Peduncles angular, Spikes scarious ovate cylindrical 
3170 Leaves ovate acuminate. Stipules falcate. Common peduncle striated. Spike oblong compressed 
3171 Spikes cylindrical comose. Leaves lanceolate 
3172 Leaves ovate upright without auricles, Stem furrowed, Spikes multiple crested 
3173 Flowers panicled nodding. Leaves lanceolate, Stem ribbed 
3174 Leaves lanceolate ovate lined very much acuminate. Spikes crested, Stipules falcate 
3175 Leaves subulate whorled. Stem branched straggling. Spikes compact cylindrical 
3176 Leaves wedge-shaped acutish. Spikes globose lateral 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
560. Mrua. From its Arabic name eroud. Little weeds like lUecebrum. 
561. Lestibudesia. Named by M. du Petit Thouars, after Fr. Jos. Lestiboudois, a Flemish botanist, author 
of a work called Botanographie Belgique, published in 1781. The species are readily increased either by seeds 
or cuttings. 
562 Rhagodia. From payulv,;, bearing berries. The fruit is a small berry, by which character the genus is 
chiefly distinguished from Chenopodium. 
563. Deeringia. Named by Mr. Brown, in memory of Dr. Charles Deering, author of a Flora of Nottinglxam, 
^"kL^ skilful botanist of his day. Weak shrubs, with terminal .spikes of flowers, and a berried infl^ated pericarp. 
564. Trianthema. 5'rom reit?, three, and av^og, flowers. The flowers are frequently placed in threes in the 
axillae of the leaves. Little tropical weeds. 
565. Celosia. From xviXio;, burnt, because the flowers of some species appear as it were singed. C. cristata 
IS a well known tender annual, of which there arc many varieties, as in the balsam, and which, like that plant, 
wiU attain a large size and singular beauty by repeated shiftings. Thunberg states that the flowers or crests 
are frequently a foot in length and breadth in Japan. T. A. Knight sent a flower to the Horticultunil Society 
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