606 MONOECIA PENTANDRIA., Amaranthus. 
axillary, and on a terminal spike. Ca/yces cuspidate, and 
rather longer than the rugose capsules. 
Teling. Tota-Kura. 
Beng. Sada-Nuteeya. 
The figure which Willdenow, in his Historia Amaran- 
thorum, gives for oleraceus, does not by any means agree 
with what Konig and myself have always considered to be ~ 
that plant, His inamoenus is much more likeit; if the leaves 
were emarginate, it would be a very excellent representation 
of this species. There are several varieties cultivated as pot- 
herbs over India, particularly on the coast of Coromandel, 
The most conspicuous, after the common green sort, particu- 
larly referred to in the above definition are, 
Ist. Yerra-tota Kura of the Telingas, a very beautiful va- 
riety, with a clear bright red stem, branches, petioles, nerves, 
and veins, and the leaves themselves rather ferruginous. 
2nd. Tella-tota Kura of the Telingas ; here all the paris that — 
are red in the last variety are of a clear, shining, white colour. 
8nd, Rosa or Pedda-tota Kura of the Telingas, is a very 
large variety, which Kénig called A. giganteus. Ina rich 
soil it grows to from five to eight feet high, with a stem as 
thick as a man’s wrist. The tender succulent tops of the stem 
and branches are sometimes served up on our — 
substitute for asparagus. ) 
The other varieties are more changeable, and not so well 
soa I will not therefore take notice of any more of —_— 
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8 A. gangeticus. Willd, iv, 384, 
--avbg Wak ‘sub-erect branches issuing out above the said 
dle of the stem. Leaves rhomb-ovate. Glomerules axillary, 
as well as on single axillary, and compound, terminal spikes. 
Calyces three-leaved, which with the bractes are euspidate 
and longer than the slightly rugose capsules, 
The varieties of this useful species cultivated in Bengal 
alone are endless; and are in general known by the Hindoo 
name Lall Sag, or Dengua of the Bengalees. They are ad 
