604 MONOECIA PENTANDRIA. Amaranthus. 
on terminal, or other spikes. Male flowers most numerous, 
triandrous, Calyx twice the length of the capsule, leaflets 
awl-pointed. Capsu/es shorter than the calyx, less bullate 
than in A. prostratus. 
4. A. tristis, Willd. iv. 385. 
Erect, very ramous near the ground. Leaves rhomb-oval, 
obtuse, emarginate. Glomerules axillary, and on terminal 
spikes, Calyces daggered, longer than the capsules. 
Teling. Qui-tota kura, 
Blitum Indicum secundum. Rumph. Amb. v. t. 82. f. 2. 
A. campestris, Willd. iv. 382, can be nothing more than 
one of the varieties of this very useful species, and it is more 
than likely that his A. polystachyus, p. 385, is another varie- 
ty, if not the same. Qui-tota kura the Telinga name of A. 
campestris, (though by mistake I presume Willdenow inserts 
the word Tamu!) is synonymous with Kuppee-kir7i, the Ta- 
thul name of polystachyus, 
Annual, I have never found it wild, it is held in great es- 
teem by all ranks of the natives, and is much cultivated by 
them, it grows readily all the year round if watered. 
Root perpendicular, coloured, reddish, Stem erect, below 
ramous, from one to two feet high, smooth, sometimes tinged 
red, Branches spreading or near the ground, as long as the 
stem. Leaves petioled, rhomb-ovate, tapering down the pe- 
tiole, emarginate with a bristle, a little rugose ; size very va- 
rious, but in general about an inch broad, Glomerules axil- 
lary, and in long, terminal, erect, interrupted, green spikes 
(not two-parted.) Mae riowers triandrous, Leaves of 
the calyx ending in an awled point, longer than the capsule. 
It differs from A. oleraceus in having long, diffuse 
branches from the base, and from Dugala kura in having al- 
ways terminal spikes; besides it may be cut down several 
times without destroying the plants, for they soon shoot out 
vigorously again; this renders it much more useful to the 
poorer natives, who are possessed of but a yery small spotof 
