Par? 2, 1917] AMARANTHACEAE 105 
united at the base; sepals of the staminate flowers oblong, actite; stamens 2 or 3; style-branches 
2 or 3; utricle ovoid or turbinate, circumscissile, thin-walled; seed black or dark-brown, shining, 
0.6-0.9 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica, 
DISTRIBUTION: Florida, Texas, and the West Indies; Mexico to northern South America. 
Inuustrations: Willd. Hist. Amaranth. #1. 6, f. 12; Fiori & Paol. Ic. Fi. Ital. f. 1055. 
4. Amaranthus Berlandieri (Moq.) Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 19: 
268. 1894. 
Sarratia Berlandiert Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 268. 1849. 
Stems slender, fleshy, ascending or prostrate, 5-30 cm. long, much branched from the 
base, villous-tomentose, especially about the inflorescence; leaves crowded near the ends of 
the stems, soon deciduous below, the petioles 3-11 mm. long, the blades oblong-lanceolate to 
oblanceolate, 6-20 mm. long, broadly rounded at the apex or obtuse and usually emarginate, 
cuneate at the base and decurrent,, glabrous, or sparsely pubescent when young, bright-green; 
flowers monoecious, in dense several-flowered sessile axillary clusters; bracts lanceolate, spine- 
tipped, usually half as long as the sepals or less; sepals of the pistillate flowers spatulate, 2 mm. 
long, rounded at the apex, united for one third their length, the tube not constricted; sepals 
of the staminate flowers lance-oblong, acuminate; stamens 2; style-branches 3; utricle turbinate, 
thin-walled, indehiscent, about equaling the sepals; seed obovoid, black and shining, 0.8 mm.. 
long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Between San Antonio, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas. 
DistTRIBUTION: Central and western Texas, 
5. Amaranthus Greggii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 274. 1877. 
Stems stout, spreading or ascending, 3-9 dm. long, branched, striate, green, glabrous 
below, sparsely villous about the inflorescence; petioles stout, 5-18 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong 
to oval or rhombic-ovate, 1.2-3.5 cm. long, rounded at the apex, acute to rounded at the 
base, thick and fleshy, deep-green, sparingly viscid-puberulent or glabrate, prominently veined 
beneath; flowers dioecious, in dense stout spikes 5-15 cm. long and 7-10 mm. thick, these 
interrupted below; bracts ovate, ovate-oblong, or lanceolate, one third to two thirds as long 
as the calyx, acute, the nerves excurrent; sepals of the pistillate flowers somewhat united at 
the base, spatulate, 3-3.5 mm. long, rounded at the apex or obtuse, or the outer ones acute, 
often crenulate, glabrous, 1-nerved, the nerves sometimes shortly excurrent; sepals of the 
staminate flowers oblong or oblong-ovate, 3.5 mm. long, acute, subulate-tipped, 1-nerved, green 
along the nerves, elsewhere thin and scarious, villous, viscid; stamens 5; style-branches 3; 
utricle oblong, acutish, slightly exceeding or shorter than the sepals, indehiscent; seed 1.3 mm. 
long, slightly longer than broad, nearly black, shining. 
Type Locality: Near the mouth of the Rio Grande, Tamaulipas. _ 
DistRrpution: Along the coast from Galveston, Texas, to Tamaulipas. 
6. Amaranthus annectens Blake, Jour. Bot. 53: 103. 1915. 
Stems branched, procumbent or ascending, stout, striate, glabrous, or sparsely glandular- 
puberulent about the nodes; petioles 4-9 mm. long, submarginate; leaf-blades oblong or oblong- 
spatulate, 1-1.8 cm. long, 3~4.5 mm. broad, truncate or retuse and cuspidate at the apex, cune- 
ate at the base, more or less glutinous, strongly nerved beneath; flowers dioecious; staminate 
spikes flexuous, simple and naked above, leafy and sparsely branched at the base, 17 cm. long, 
1.1 em. thick, the sepals oval, acutish, green-carinate, 2.3 mm. long, sparsely glandular; 
stamens 5; pistillate spikes flexuous, simple or branched at the base, naked, 7-25 cm. long, 
0.8-1 em. thick, the bracts oval-ovate, acute, 1.3-1.7 mm. long, the sepals broadly obovate- 
oblong or obovate-spatulate, 2.2-2.9 mm. long, retuse, cuspidate, 1-nerved, scarious-margined; 
utricle ovoid-fusiform, subangulate, slightly inflated, fleshy-coriaceous, indehiscent, a third 
