AMARANTACEZ. 21 
Commen in all parts of the area in waste places and as a weed of culti- 
vation. DisTRIB.: Throughout India and in Ceylon and up to 4,000 
ft. on the Himalaya, extending to all warm countries. 
GoMPHRENA GLOBOSA, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ti, 63; F. B. I. iv, 732; 
Watt E. D.; Prain Beng. Pl. 876 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 499. (‘he 
Globe amaranth).—A tall much-branched annual, hairy or subsilky. 
Leaves shortly stalked, pale-green, 2-4 in. long, elliptic or obovate- 
oblong. Heads large, globose, terminating the branches, yellowish- 
white or crimson ; bracts leafy ; bracteoles pinkish-purple. Sepals 
densely woolly, shorter than the long staminal tube. Anthers 1- 
celled. Stigma 2-fid.—Much cultivated in Indian gardens and often 
met with as ap escape. Cultivated in most warm countries, having 
probably originated in America. It flowers in India during the rainy 
and cold seasons. 
XCI._CHENOPODIACE. 
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves usually alternate, 
simple, exstipulate. Flowers small, usually green, 1- or 2-sexual, 
usually regular, often dimorphic; bracts 1 or none, bracteoles 
none or 2. Perianth simple, sepaline, of 3-5 free or connate sepals, 
imbricate, often wanting in female flowers. Stamens usually 5, 
opposite the perianth-segments, perigynous or hypogynous ; fila- 
ments free, sometimes with intervening staminodes ; anthers 
2-celled. Ovary ovoid globose or depressed, 1-celled; style ter- 
minal, short or long ; stigma capitate or 2-3-lobed ; or stigmas 2- 
5, free or slightly united ; ovule solitary, basal or lateral, campylo- 
tropous. Fruit a small utricle, rarely a circumscissile capsule, 
enclosed in the often enlarged fleshy perianth when the latter is 
present. Seeds erect, inverse or horizontal, crustaceous coriaceous 
or membranous ; albumen floury or fleshy or none; embryo 
curved, annular or spiral.—Species about 520, widely dispersed 
throughout the world, and chiefly in saline soils. 
Stems not twining ; bracteoles free from the peri- 
anth ; anthers erect or incurved in bud :— 
Leaves flat; embryo annular or horseshoe- 
shaped :— 
Fruiting perianth not winged; albumen 
copious ° ‘ ‘ .1. CHENOPODIUM. 
Fruiting perianth with transverse wings ; 
albumen scanty . ; F , .2. Kocuta. 
