JIinaranf/iKs:. monokcia pentanuria. (509 



colour, Aviiite the other half, and all the lower leaves are of 

 the former. Whereas A. tricolor, growing in the same soil, 

 &c. rises to only three or four in height, with generally a sim- 

 ple, erect stem, and numerous, variegated, narrower leaves 

 with very long glomerules of flowers in their axills. 



1 have not hitherto been able to find any Asiatic syno- 

 nyms for cither of these; Sir William Jones supposes the 

 Sanscrit name, Vastuca, may belong to an Amaranthvs, but 

 to what species is uncertain. 



- 13. A.J'ascicatus. R. 



Erect, ramous above the middle. Leaves rhomb-ovate. 

 Pcmicles terminal, composed of a few simple, cylindric 

 I>ranches. Bructes minute, shorter than the obtuse, three- 

 leaved calyx, which is shorter than the rugose capsules. 



Bun or t?<nt?nii n?<teeya of the Bengalees. 



Chilaka tota Kura of the Telingas. 



A common weed, and green in every part, with the excep- 

 tion of a crescent-shaped cloud or fillet of paler green cross- 

 in<r the centre of the leaves. 



SECT. II. Penlandrous. 



14. A. Inihrklus. Willd. iv. 389. 



Erect, from two to three feet high. Leaves rhonib-lanceo- 

 lar. Racemes naked, panicled, erect. Leaflets of the calyces 

 three, rather obtuse, covering the very rugose capsules. 



Introduced into Bengal from Persia, where it is indige- 

 nous. 



^ 15. A. fnimcntaccns. Buchanan. 



Penlandrous, annual. Stem and branches erect. Leaves 

 broad-lanceolar. Panicles erect. Leaves of the calyx dag- 

 gered. C«23s?</es wrinkled, seed pellucid, with callous white 

 margins. 

 First discovered by Dr. Buchanan, on the hills between the 

 VOL. in. ^^ 



