608 MONOECiA PENTANDRiA. Amaranthns. 



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. Glomernles axillary, as well as on a glo- 

 merate, terminal spike. Calyx three or five-leaved, cuspidate, 

 and longer than the rugose capsules. 



Bans-pwta lal nwteeya 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 by 

 chanoe of soil. 



1 1. A. tricolor. Wilkl. 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 India and 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. Z,eaue« remote, 



rhomb-ovate, coloured. Glomernles 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 frjco/or, differ fully 

 as nmch 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 



