304 
FLORA OF ADEN . 
2. Aema lanata Juss. in Ann. Mus. Pr. II (1803) 131; Moq. in 
DC. Prodr. XIII, II, 303; A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. II, 214; Garckein 
Peters Reise Mossamb. Bot. 504 ; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. FI. 
Aethiop. 174; T. Thoms, in Speke Nile, Append. 646; Oliv. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. XXIX, 141 ; Wight Ic. t. 723 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. 
IV, 728 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 993; Scbinz in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzen- 
f am. Ill, la, 109, Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr. C. 173; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. 207 ; This. -Dyer FI. trop. Afr. VI, 39. 
Achyrantbes lanata Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 204. 
Achyranthes villosa Forsk. FI. Aegypt.-Arab. 48. 
Illecebrum lanatnm Linn. Mant. 344 ; Schumach. Beskr. Gnin. PI. 
144. 
Aerua floribunda Wight Ic. VI, t. 1776 bis , fig. A, et V, t. 1776 
(analyses only). 
Ouret lanata Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. I, 893 (partim). 
Arabic name : — Shagarat-el-athleb. 
Description : — Erect or prostrate with a long tap-root, branched from 
near the base ; branches many, terete, pubescent or woolly -“tomentose, 
striate. Leaves alternate, f — 1 by § — f inch on the main stem £ — § by 
i on the branches, elliptic or obovate, or snborbicular, obtuse or 
acute, entire, pubescent above, more or less white with cottony hairs 
beneath ; petioles | — J inch long, often obscure. 
Flowers greenish-white, very small, sessile, often bisexual, in small 
dense subsessile axillary heads or spikes | — J inch long, often closely 
crowded and forming globose clusters ; bracteoles ^ inch long, mem- 
branous, broadly ovate, concave, apiculate. Perianth ^ i n °h l° n g 1 
sepals oblong, obtuse, sometimes apiculate, silky-hairy on the back. 
Utricle broadly ovoid, acute ; stigmas 2. Seed ^ inch in diameter, 
smooth and polished, black. 
Locality: — Aden (Defl.). * 
Distribution .-—Throughout Africa, and warm parts of Asia to the 
Philippines. 
4. Celosia. 
Herbs, usually annual ; leaves alternate. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, in dense terminal and axillary spikes, sessile 
or shortly pedicellate, white or coloured ; bracts scarious, bracteoles 2, 
scarious. Perianth of 5 segments slightly connate below, scarious, 
oblong or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, striate, erect in fruit. Stamens 5 ; 
filaments connate below in a membranous hypogynous cup; anthers 2- 
celled ; staminodes 0. Ovary 1-celled, ovoid or subglobose ; ovules 2 or 
more, on long funicles ; style 0 or short or long, sometimes elongating 
in fruit ; stigmas simple or 2 or 3, subulate, 
