C02 MONOF.ciA PENTANDRiA. Amctrmithis. 



SECT. I. Triandrous. 



1. A. tennifolws. Willd. iv. 4381. 



Annual, diffuse. Leaves vvedge-slmped, emarginate. Glo- 

 mernles axillary; male flowers diandrous, with a two-leaved 

 calyx ; \\\e female ones irregular. 



Beny. Jeel ChumI?. 



Found during the whole year, on cultivated ground near 

 Calcutta. 



Root perpendicular, with small lateral fibres, of a bright 

 pink colour. Stem none, but numerous, smooth, alternately 

 ramous branches, spreading close on the earth ; their length 

 from six to twelve inches. Leaver somewhat petioled, long, 

 wedge-shaped, emarginate, with a bristle in the fissure, are 

 smooth, and about an inch long. Glomerules axillary, never 

 terminal. Male flowers with a two-leaved perianth, and 

 two stamens. Female flowers more numerous than the 

 male ones. Calyx., the internal flowers of the fascicle, or glo- 

 merule, have rarely any ; the exterior ones have it consisting 

 of one or two leaflets. Capsule with six longitudinal furrows 

 coloured and not circumcised. 



' 2. A. polycfonoides. Willd. iv. 389. and B. H. 



Diffuse. Leaves obovate. Glomerules axillary, two- 

 parted. Capsule puUate, equalling the acute lanceolate 

 leaflets of the calyx. 



Beny. Cheloo nwteepa. 



Teliny. Chira kura. 



Is the smallest species I know. It is annual, a native of 

 almost every soil and situation, is a common weed in our gar- 

 dens, where there is a constant succession of plants flowering 

 all the year. 



Root perpendicular. Stems in young luxuriant plants 

 erect, with spreading branches from the base ; but more fre- 

 quently there are only many prostrate branches, with alter- 

 nate, hilarious, smooth branchiets, from six to twelve inches 



