610 MONOECIA PENTANDRIA. Amaranthus. 
Mysore and Coimbetore countries, where the natives call it 
Kiery, and cultivate it for the seed which they convert into 
flour, and which forms a great part of their subsistence, 
In the Botanic garden forty square yards of ground, sown 
with this plant in June, yielded twenty-one pounds weight of 
the clear ripe seed in September. It also grows well during 
the cold season, viz. from October till February inclusive. 
Root annual. Siem erect, often an inch or more in diame- 
ter, with numerous, erect branches from every part, more or 
less striated, otherwise perfectly smooth, colour from green 
to pretty deep red; height of the whole plant from one to 
seven feet according to the season. Leaves alternate, pretty 
long-petioled, from oblong to broad-lanceolar, acute, various- 
ly coloured like the stem and branches. Panicles terminal, 
each braneh of the plant ending in a straight sub-cylindric 
one, composed of many appressed, crowded spikes, Inshort, © 
the whole plant is so loaded with the inflorescence, as to ap- 
pear almost a single, large panicle. Calyx longer than the 
stamens; leaflets in both male and female with subulate 
points. MALE FLowers with five stamina. The FEMALE ones 
with from two to three styles, Capsule rugose, Seed solitary, 
round, a little compressed, pellucid with a white margin. 
16, A. cruentus, Willd. iv. 892. 
Erect, ramous, from four to six feet high. Leaves loll 
petioled, broad lanceolar. Panicles terminal, crowded with 
erect, compound, and decompound branches, Calyz of five © 
rather obtuse leaflets, which are shorter than the capsules. 
A large, stout, ramous, erect, gaudy species; which blos- 
soms earlier in the rains than the ornamental sorts, and does 
not vary in colour in our gardens in India; being of a pale” 
green tinged with red, and the panicles which are from one to 
two feet long, crimson, The leaves are very remarkable for 
being concave, like a spoon, either on Ra Se he 
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