212° XCVII. AMARANTACEJE. [ Hemichroa, 
uch narrower than the outer. Stamens 2, not much shorter than the 
E the filaments much dilated below the middle, and united at the 
ase on the perte side of the ovary, the staminal cup interrupted on 
Fruit not seen roe —Mo x iii. ii 
N. Australia? A fr yum Nichol mpm ew coast, in herb. F. Mue 
pears to Hes flr to this aiji yk than to H. pentandra, but is insufficient f d 
termina 
stralia. Fowler's Bay, R. Brown; hills near Lake Hamilton, Wilhelmi ; 
head of arcere Guif, F. Mueller, Wa rburton. 
Salt marshes, Sharks Bay, Milne. 
9. AMARANTUS, Linn. 
(Sarratia, Tr í HEIM and Euxolus, Rafin.) 
Flowers usually monce Perianth-segments 9 to 5, erect with 
searious margins or (expecially deni in n more or less dilated at the 
end into spreading scarious lamine. Stam to 5, free, without in- 
l 
Mages on in ate red. Leaves alt Ps Flowers small, ense 
cymes or cluster o the clusters all axillary or colleatae it i» teri 
spikes which are either simple or Stepahing into dense pan 
and bracteoles small, green or scario The female see pe b. 
sagen more numerous than the Mi. which are in the sam Mitac 
chiefly in the upper parts of the inflorescence, with the same number or 
e range over the cum dá the Pu. yii. men abd p 
t 
n the warmer regions of both = aoe and the Old World. The remaining sever 
are endemic, but two of them a a remarkable resemblance to the West Indian and 
any other deri that I have pies it caters ter "s retain the collective genus = 
ees beer at Aor enin ned one, than to adopt the purely artificial dine rances p 
Beor. 1. Puamarantus.—Porice ericarp circumscis 
Perianth-segments mostly 5, erect. Tall erect lant with an 
ample panicle, the points of the bracts s prou n ent 1. A. paniculatut. 
ren th-segments mostly 3, erect or slightly Dated " the en 
s all axillary o: r the upper ones in a short dense eal A. Bite 
2. A. 
Pevlanth segments mostly 4 ed 5, , erect o or slightly dilated at the 
rs ie Lt an and in a long loose terminal sortir: IH leptostachyis- 
Perianth- -segments most] 
y [2 "with “dilated scarious & readin, IMS 
laminee (when in fruit). Terminal spikes usually Mars ng 4. A. pallidifore 
