Amaranthus, MONOECIA PENTANDRIA, 601 
X. Indicum. Kon, Mss. 
Annual, unarmed. Leaves reniform cordate, lobate, gross- 
ly serrate, dentate, 
Sans, Aristha. 
Teling. Veri-tel-nep. 
Tam, Marlumutta. 
A strong, robust annual, growing from two to three feet 
high ; it delights in the banks of rivers, and rubbishy places, 
where it appears and flowers during the dry season only. It 
ought to be compared with X. orientale, for Kénig thought 
them different, yet 1 suspect they are the same. 
. Stem erect, somewhat scabrous, clouded with dark colour- 
ed spots, annual. Leaves alternate, petioled, broad cordate, 
or rather tending to kidney-formed, somewhat lobed, notched, 
waved, three-nerved, scabrous ; about four or five inches each 
way. Petioles round, scabrous, as long as the leaves, Flowers 
terminal, and from the superior axills. MALE FLOWERS ag- 
gregate, above the female ones, short-peduncled. Corollets 
from four to five-parted. Vectary tubular; mouth few- 
toothed, staminiferous, FrmaLe rLoweErs below the male, 
sub-sessile, and solitary. Calyx one-flowered, many-leaved ; 
leaflets lanceolate, hairy. Germ superior, oblong, armed with 
uncinate bristles, two-celled, each cell containing one ovu- 
lum enveloped in an interior tunic, a continuation of which, 
form the two long slender styles, which end in simple stig- . 
mas. Perisperm &c, as described by Geertner. | 
| AMARANTHUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1431. 
Male calyx from three to five-leaved. Corol none. Sta- 
mens from three to five. _ Female calyx beneath, from three 
to five-leaved. Corol none. Styles three. Capsule mem- 
branaceous, one-celled, one-sided, opening cial Em- 
oie ean" with a perisperm. | | 
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