* 
Amarantus. | XCVII. AMARANTACEJE. 215 
longitudinal ribs, indehiscent or bursting irregularly, with a thick 
summit projecting beyond the perianth, and 3 short subulate stigmatic 
styles—A, undulatus, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 102, not of R. Br. 
. Queensland. Narran river, Mitchell; Flinders river, Sutherland ; Charlesville, 
Giles; Armadilla, Barton. Used as a vegetable, Sutherland, Giles. 
.N. S. Wales. Between the Darling and Cooper's Creek, Neilson; Ballandool 
river, Locker. ; 
With the radiating fruiting perianth of A. pallidiflorus, this has the habit of A. 
Blitum or almost of A. crassipes (Scleropus, Schrad.), with the pericarp indehiscent as 
Eucol “Site : * 
in us, but differing in its prominent ribs from all Amaranti known to me. 
_ * A. interruptus, R. Br. Prod. 414: Erect or decumbent, from 6 
iu to nearly 2 ft. high. Leaves petiolate, ovate or almost rhomboidal, 
i in. | 
long, scarcely pointed. Segments of the fruiting perianth 5, narrow, 
erect, slightly spathulate, shortly but finely pointed, about 3 line long, 
White and scarious on the margins, dark in the centre, those of the male 
rugose, not ri 
sed with a short thick summit about as long as the perianth. Styles ? 
or'tarely 8.4 undulatus, A. rhombeus, and A. lineatus, R. Br. Le. ; 
mbeu. oq. in DC. eni 
; E. lineatus, Moq. Le. 276 as to the Australian, bu 
nd plant. i 
[^ustralia. Arnhem N. Bay and nei hbouring parts of the N. coast, R. Brown ; 
Sandy islands, Victoria river, 7 Mueller 4 X coast, Landsborough. . n dsl 
Mac la Rockhampton, O'Shanesy; Brisbane river, Leichhardt; 
kay, Nernst, 
This species has the aspect nearly of A. Blitum, with the fruit of A. wc sad is 
peed distinguished from both by the segments of the fruiting perianth. pn 
Bro 23, not 3; they fall off with the fruit as in most species of the section 
ime, Ut species appear to me to be scarcely even varieties of a single one 
4 . und x 
. i are 7 dum 
Tho y etisped on the margin, the terminal spike still dense and ommaning je E 
d apu are older, the spike long and a of wn da iu 
" imens 
the same localities, oes sandy or ar sene ge dit 
^y are very luxuriant, with broad leaves twice the size o 
otherwise different 
A] 
from Port Mack 
Others, but not 
~ Viridis, Linn. An erect or decumbent annual oft ru ie 
LAV ES petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, rather thin T ^ 
pinnate veins usually prominent underneath, 1 to 2 in. long. Ho 
gee? 81962. with an obtuse appearance, the lower ones in small axi wd 
E m cymes or close clusters, the upper ones in rather loose ws in : 
. Rüpted Spikes, forming a short terminal panicle, the central spike 1 t 
