Dieotyleae 
Amarantacesae. 
Achyranthes rubro-fusea Wight Icon. V. t. 1778!1*). 
Plautam ex seminibns Nilagirieis /enatam Wightii spe- 
ciem habemus, quamvis pauca in descriptione nostra ab ico- 
nis figuris quibusdam, nulla deseriptione uberiore adumbratis 
abborrent. En deseriptionem nostram plantae in caldario 
euliae. 
Canlis annuus, patulo-ramosus, pluripedalis eum ramis 
teiragonus, puberulus, viridis v. ex viridi-pnrpurascens, arti- 
cnlatus, articnloram basi ad nodos leviter incrassatos sangui- 
neo-purpurea, parte sub linen folia conneotente sita augu- 
stiore sanguinea. Folia (superiora tantum aderant in florente 
planta quae infera omnia dejecerat) peliolata, petiolo semi- 
*) Haec verba ab auctore pro diagnosi et descriptione traduntur: 
„Herbaceons; stem erect, ramous, round, pubescent, branches 
ascending, leaves ovate acuminate, short petiolated, finely pü- 
hescent on both sides; spikes virgate compact; flowers shining 
pale greenish, awn of the bracten as long as the limb; calyx 
larger than the hracts; sepals 3-nerved, glabrons; staminodes 
truncated fimbriated on the margin, about half the length of the 
filaments; style equaling the stameus. Neilgherries in moist 
scil. This species seems in appearance nearly allied to A. fru- 
ticosa hat is so fer as can be learned from written characters, 
but is abundantly distinot as shown by the analysis of the #0- 
wers. Fig. B. in the plate represents Ihe albumen highly magai- 
- Bed which appears to consist of an congeries of minute globular 
grains giving a cellular appearance to the magnified representa- 
tion. The stem and the branches of the growing plant have & 
redäish brown colour, whence the name, in drying the red ting® 
fades and the hrowi becomes deeper.“ 
