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Straggling under shrubs. Leaves opposite, shortly stalked, 
broadly ovate, long-pointed. Mowers white, shining, in small 
clusters crowded in globose whorls forming terminal, often paiiicled 
spikes, each cluster containing 1 or 2 perfect flowers and several 
imperfect ones which are reduced to a single, hooked perianth- 
segment. Perfect flowers : perianth scarious, 5-par ted, segments 
narrowly lanceolate, acute ; stamens 5, alternate with 5 oblong, 
fringed staminodes and united with them at the base ; ovary ovoid, 
Fig. 132. Cyathula tomentosa. 
style slender, stigma capitate. Fruit a dry, ovoid utricle enclosed 
by the perianth and containing a single seed. 
Leaves thick, tomentose. Spikes long L C. tomentosa. 
Leaves thin, nearly glabrous. Spikes globose . . .2. C. capitata. 
1. Cyathula tomentosa, Moq . ; FI Br. Incl iv. 722. Densely 
woolly. Leaves lanceolate to orbicular, 2-10 in. long, acute* 
shortly stalked. Spikes 2-6 in. long, stalked ; clusters of flowers 
crowded or separated. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 2 or all ending in 
hooked awns, lengthening with age. (Fig. 132.) 
Simla, common ; August-October.— Kashmir to Sikkim and Khasia, 2000- 
7000 ft. 
