602 MONOECIA PENTANDRIA. Amaranthus, 
SECT. I. Triandrous. 
1. A, tenuifolius, Willd. iv. 4381. 
Annual, diffuse, Leaves wedge-shaped, emarginate. Glo- 
merules axillary ; male flowers diandrous, with a two-leaved 
calyx ; the female ones irregular. 
Beng, Jeel Chumli. : 
Found during the whole year, on cultivated ground near 
Calcutta. 
Root perpendicular, with small lateral fibres, of a bright 
pink colour, | Stem none, but numerous, smooth, alternately 
ramous branches, spreading close on the earth; their length 
from six to twelve inches. Leaves somewhat petioled, long, 
wedge-shaped, emarginate, with a bristle in the fissure, are 
smooth, and about an inch long. Glomerules axillary, never 
terminal, Mae FLowers with a two-leaved perianth, and 
two stamens, FremMALE FLOWERS more numerous than the 
imale ones. Calyx, the internal flowers of the fascicle, or glo- 
merule, have rarely any ; the exterior ones have it consisting 
of one or two leaflets, Capsule with six longitudinal furrows — 
coloured and not circumcised. 
2. A, polygonoides, Willd. iv. 389. and B. H. 
Diffuse. Leaves obovate. Glomerules axillary, two- 
parted, Capsule pullate, equalling the acute lanceolate 
leaflets of the calyx. 8 
Beng. Cheloo nuteepa. 
_ Teling. Chira kura, 
Is the smallest species I know. It is annual, a native of 
almost every soil and situation, is a common weed in our gat- 
dens, where there is a constant succession of plants Soxeers 
all the year, , 
_ Root perpendicular, Stems in young conden plants 
erect, with spreading branches from the base; but more fre- 
quently there are only many prostrate branches, with alter- 
nate, bifarious, smooth branchlets, from six to twelve inches 
