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CX. AMARANTACEAL 
[Deeringia. 
1 . DEERINGIA, Brown. 
Herbs or scandent shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers uni- 
or bi-sexual in long simple or panicled spikes. Perianth-lobes 5, 
oblong, imbricate. Stamens 4 or 5; filaments broad and connate 
in a cup at base ; anthers 2-eelled reniform-oblong. Ovary ovoid; 
ovules many; stigmas 2 to 4. Fruit a globose berry. Species 5 to 6, 
Africa, Asia and Australia. 
Flowers in long slender panicled spikes; fruit red . (1) D. celosioides 
Flowers in short simple spikes; fruit white . . (2) D. indica 
Fig. 133.—Deeringia celosioides. 
(1) D. celosioides Brown, Prodr. Nov.-Holl. i. 413; Gamble, 
l.o. 5. 
Long scrambling shrubby plant. Leaves fleshy, membranous 
ovate acute, rounded or cordate, 3 in. long, 1*5 in. wide; petioles 
■5 in. long. Panicles 1 ft. long or more, axillary and terminal, 
the slender many-flowered spikes 1 ft. long or less. Flowers white, 
very small. Stamens exsert. Drupe scarlet, *i in. through. 
Hob. On limestone rocks, generally near the sea, Selangor, Kamun- 
ing in forests (Ridley). Perak, Batu Kurau (Scortechini). Distrib. 
Indo-Malaya, China. 
