608 MONOECIA PENTANDRIA, Amaranthus. 
ones with three tapering styles. Capsule circumcised, wrin- 
kled, The leaves and tender tops are eaten by the natives 
in their curries, * 
10. A. atropurpureus. R. 
Erect, ramous, from three to six feet high, Leaves lan- 
ceolar, of a deep liver colour, above of a shining crimson, un- 
derneath purple. Glomerules axillary, as well as on a glo- 
merate, terminal spike, Calyx three or five-leaved, cuspidate, 
and longer than the rugose capsules, 
Bans-puta lal nuteeya of the Bengalees who cultivate this — 
sort also as a pot-herb, It appears to me to be a well mark- 
ed, very distinct species, which I have not found altered a 
change of soil, . 
11. A. tricolor. Willd. iv. 383. 
Erect, from two to four feet high. Leaves approximate, 
broad rhomb-lanceolate, variously coloured. Glomerules 
axillary, large, half stem-clasping. Calyces of the three cus- 
pidate leaflets, which are longer than the capsules, Common 
in gardens all over Indiaand China. In Bengal it is in flower 
and seed the whole year, 
12. A, melancholicus, Willd. iv. 383. : 
_ Erect, ramous, from six to twelve feet. Leaves remote, 
thomb-ovate, coloured. Glomerules axillary. Calyces of 
three, cuspidate leaflets, which are longer than the capsules. 
~ Found in gardens all over India ; flowering time the rainy 
and cold seasons, 
The last two species melancholicus and tricolor, differ fully 
as thuch in our gardens as any two species of the genus, not 
only in colour, but in size and habit, The former grows to be 
from six to twelve feet high during the rains, is ramous, and 
pyramidal, with the leaves more remote, much broader, and 
with rarely more than two colours, viz. a dull livid purple, 
and a most lively light crimson, one half of a few of the latter 
