722 CXVI. AMARANTACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Amarantus. 
worth. The Carnatic Perrottet.—' This is almost identical with A. grecizans, Linn. 
(A. Blitum, var. grecizans, Moq.; A. sylvestris, var. grecizans, Boiss.). 
10. A. tenuifolius, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 381; glabrous, branches many 
spreading from the root prostrate or ascending, leaves small petioled 
linear-oblong or widened to the rounded obtuse or 2-lobed tip, clusters 
minute all axillary, sepals 2 oblong concave nearly as long as the orbicular 
compressed membranous indehiscent utricle. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 602 ; Wight 
Ic. t.718; Wall. Cat. 6893, excl. E. A. angustifolius, Roxb. mss. Mengea 
tenuifolia, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2,271; Dalz. §& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 218. 
BENGAL, the GANGETIC VALLEY and PANJAB.— DISTRIB. Tropical Africa. 
Branches slender, 6-18 in., leafy. Leaves very variable, j-1 in. long, narrowed 
into the petiole. Clusters smaller than in any other species, green. Stamens 2. 
Utricle plicate when dry. Seed ù in. diam., brown, lenticular, border obtuse. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
A. ATROPURPUREUS, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 688, is a garden plant, possibly a form of 
A. oleraceus. 
A. CAMPESTRIS, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 882; Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 264, is 
undeterminable. 
A. RUBRICAULIS, Page Hort. Angl. (fid. Moq. l. c. 267) name only, is inde- 
terminable. 
8. CYATHULA, Lour. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers clustered, clusters 
solitary spicate and reflexed in fruit, or in dense globose solitary or spicate 
heads; perfect flowers 1-2 in each. cluster, surrounded by imperfect ones 
reduced to sepals with rigid hooked awns. Sepals 5, scarious, 1-nerved, 
acuminate or with hooked rigid awns. Stamens 5, connate, united below with 
the linear lacerate or 2-fid staminodes into a cup; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 
obovoid; style filiform, stigma capitellate ; ovule 1, pendulous from a long 
basal funicle. Utricle ovoid, indehiscent, top areolate. Seed inverse, oblong, 
testa coriaceous; embryo annular, cotyledons linear flat.—Species 10, tropical 
Asia, Africa and America. 
* Clusters of flowers in large globose heads. 
1. C. tomentosa, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 327; densely tomen- 
tose or woolly, leaves short-petioled elliptic acute or acuminate, base acute, 
heads aplobose spicate. C. Sequax, Mog. mss. Achyranthes tomentosa; 
Roth Nov. Sp. 167; Wight Ic. t. 1781. A. Sequax, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., 
Ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 506. Desmochæta tomentosa, Roem. & Sch. Syst. Y 
994. Polyscelis Sequax, Wall. Cat. 6939. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Dalhousie to Bhotan, alt. 2-6500 ft., Wallich, &c. 
KnuasrA Mrs., alt. 2-5000 ft. . 
A straggling undershrub, variable in density of tomentum ; branches strict, 
obtusely 4-angled. Leaves 2-10 in., rarely orbicular or elliptic-lanceolate, pubescen 
or glabrate above, often velvety or subsilky beneath ; petiole 4—4 in. Spikes 2-6 in. 
long peduncled ; heads close or distant, 1-1} in. diam., white, glistening ; bracts ovate 
below, back hairy. Sepals 1-3 in., linear-lanceolate, 2 or all ending in hooked awns, 
lengthening in age. Staminodes fimbriate. Anthers linear. ** Utricle 2-nerved ; 
seed ovate shining," JWallich.—I find no seed in any of the numerous specimens. 
2. C. capitata, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 329; sparsely hairy, leaves 
short-petioled elliptic subcaudate-acuminate, base acute, heads globose sub- 
