^Dirnanthns. monoecia pentandria. (501 



X. Itidicum. Kon. Mas. 



AnnituI, uiianned. Leaves reniforni cordate, lubale, gross- 

 ly serrate, dentate. 



Sans. Aristha. 



Tfimff. Veri-tel-nep. 



Tarn. JMarliiinutta. 



A strong-, Tobiist annual, orowing- from two to three feet 

 liigh ; it delights in the banks of rivers, and rubbishy places, 

 where it appears and flowers diuing the dry season only. It 

 ought to be compared with X. orieiitafe, for Kiinig thought 

 them diflTerent, yet 1 suspect they are the same. 



Slem erect, somewhat scabrous, clouded with dark colour- 

 ed spots, annual. Leaves alternate, petioled, broad cordate, 

 or rather tending to kidney-formed, somewhat lobed, notched, 

 waved, three-nerved, scabrous ; about four or five inches each 

 way. Petioles round, scabrous, as long as the leaves. Flowers 

 terminal, and from the superior axills. Male flowers ag- 

 gregate, above the female ones, short-ped uncled. Corollets 

 trom four to five-parted. JK'ectary tubular; month few- 

 toothed, staminiferous. Feimale flowers below the male, 

 sub-sessile, and solitary. Calyx one-flowered, many-leaved ; 

 leajlets lanceolate, hairy. Germ superior, oblong, armed with 

 uncinate bristles, two-celled, each r« II containing one ovu- 

 lum enveloped in an interior tunic, a continuation of which, 

 form the two long slender styles, which end in simple stig- 

 mas. Perisperm &c. as described by Geertner. 



AMARANTHUS. Schreh. gai. N. 1431. 



Jilale calyx from three to five-leaved. Carol none. iS7a- 

 mcns from three to five. Female calyx beneath, from three 

 to five-leaved. Corol none. Styles three. Capsule mem- 

 branaceous, one-celled, one-sided, opening horizontally. Em- 

 bryo amiular, and furnished with a perisperm. 



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