Amaranthus. MONOECIA PENTANDRIA, 603 
long, often coloured on the upper side. Leaves alternate, in 
young plants with a stem, petioled, in others sub-sessile, 
oval, obovate, or wedge-formed ; tapering down the petioles, 
pretty smooth, emarginate with a minute bristle, with mar- 
gins tinged red, from a quarter to half an inch long. Glome- 
rules axillary, two-parted, whether by a branchlet or not, 
never any thing like a spike. Male flowers most numerous, 
Leaflets of the calyx short, sharp-pointed ; stamina three. 
Capsules longer than the calyx, bullate, with the apex co- 
loured red. Seed shining black. 
This species although wild, for I never saw any one that 
tried to cultivate it, the natives use as a pot-herb ; it is reck- 
oned exceedingly wholesome, for which reason convalescents 
have this species recommended to them in preference to any 
_ of the others. 
3. A, polygamus, Willd, iv. 381. 2 
Diffuse. Leaves rhomb-ovate, emarginate; glomerules 
axillary, or on terminal othe Calyces dan iertey longer 
than the capsules. 
Blitaum Indicum album. Rumph. Amb. v. t. 82. f. 1. 
Hind, Chumli sag. 
Beng. Champa carts and Lal-Champa ibid a & a = 
dish variety. . 
Teling. Dugala-kura, = Yerra-dugala kura, the’ — 
variety, : 
Wherein does A. Blitum differ from these? 
A native of the same places with the last deser ibed, like 
them annual, and flowering at the same time. Both sorts are 
extensively cultivated all over the southern parts of Asia. — 
- Stem when the plants are young, and in a good soil, erect, 
sinc a foot high, branchy near the base; but when old, or 
it’ a bad soil there are only several diffuse, smooth, striated, 
pured branches ; from nine to eighteen inches long. Leaves 
petioled, rhombiform, emarginate with a bende, Tugose, e- 
-nerally about an inch long. Glomerules axillary 
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