< Gromphrena .] C. AMARANTACE^E. 1235 
Heads large globose with 2 leafy bracts ; bracteoles pinkish-purple .... 1. G. *globosa. 
Staminal tube longer than the ovary. Spikes globular or ovoid, usually 
large. Filaments flat. Leaves linear. 
Staminal tube with filiform teeth between the filaments. Spikes globular. 
Perianth-segments acute. Annual 2. G. canescens 
Staminal tube without teeth or lobes between the filaments. 
Annual of 1 to 2ft. Spikes ot length ovoid or oblong. Perianth-seg- 
ments obtuse 3. G.flaccida. 
Perennial under 1ft. Spikes hemispherical or globular. Perianth-seg- 
ments rather obtuse 4. G. humilis. 
Staminal tube shorter than the ovary. Spikes rarely above Jin. diameter. 
Spikes hemispherical or globular. Perianth very woolly outside below the 
middle. Staminal tube with teeth or lobes between the filaments. 
Leaves linear. Bracts much shorter than the bracteoles 5. G. Brownii. 
Spikes ovoid or oblong-cylindrical. Perianth woolly below the middle. 
Spikes 5 lines diameter. Leaves all linear. Filaments broad and 2 or 
3-toothed at the end G. G. conica. 
Spikes 3 or 4 lines diameter, densely crowded with broadly-lanceolate 
floral leaves. Filaments tapering at the end 7. G. conferta. 
Spikes at length narrow-cylindrical. Perianth small, quite glabrous. 
Leaves hairy, lanceolate to oblong 8. G. diffusa. 
1. €r globosa (globular), Linn ; Sp. PI. 224 ; Hook in FI. Brit. Ind. iv. 732. 
A aichotomously branched annual, the branches obtusely angled, hairy or subsilky. 
Leaves 2 to 4in. long, shortly petiolate, elliptic or obovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, 
scaberulous, pale green. Heads 1 to liin. diameter, with 2 leafy bracts under the 
head to lin. Bracteoles pinkish purple, lateral with a cristate dorsal wing. 
Sepals densely woolly, lanceolate, shorter than the staminal tube. — Wight, Ic. 
1784 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2815. — Rheede, Hort. Mai. x. t. 37. 
Hab.: An American plaut. A stray from garden culture in this and many other warm 
countries. Common in the gardens of the aborigines of New Guinea. 
2. Gr. canescens (hoary), R. Br. Prod. 416 ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 253. An 
erect more or less branching annual, usually stout and hard, 1 to nearly 2ft. high, 
more or less hoary with long soft hairs, the older parts rarely glabrous. Leaves 
linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, the larger ones 2 to 3in. long, the margins 
usually recurved. Spikes globular, sessile between the last leaves, about lin. 
diameter, tbe rhachis thick, ovoid or globular, woolly. Bracts and bracteoles 
thinly scarious, lanceolate, acute, about 3 lines long. Perianth-segments about 
5 lines long, narrow, acute, 1-nerved, slightly woolly on the back below the 
middle, glabrous inside. Filaments united in a tube variable in length, but 
always much longer than the ovary, the free portion short, flattened, with 
intervening filiform teeth or lobes, sometimes as long as the anthers, but often 
shorter. Style filiform. — Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 398; Philoxerus canescens, 
Poir. Diet. Suppl. iv. 393. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, E. Brown, Henne. 
3. G-. flaccida (weak), Pi. Br. Prod. 416 ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 254. An erect 
annual of 1 to lift., simple or branched, usually more slender than G. canescens, 
but sometimes as stout, the young parts woolly, becoming at length nearly 
glabrous. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 1 to 2in. or rarely longer, those 
under the spike much smaller. Spikes at first globular, but soon becoming ovoid, 
solitary or 2 or 3 in a close cluster at the ends of the branches, about fin. 
diameter and sometimes at length nearly lin. long, the rhachis woolly. Bracts 
2h to 3 lines long, the bracteoles much complicate and keeled. Perianth about 4 
lines long, much flattened when old, the segments rather obtuse, slightly woolly 
outside near the base. Staminal tube varying in length as in G. canescens, and 
