Anarene, | XCVII. AMARANTACER, 213 
Sect. 2. Euxolus.—Pericarp membranous, indehiscent or bursting —— 
Pericarp p from the seed, shorter than or not much longer 
than the perianth. 
reo: of the fruiting perianth 2 with dilated and scarious as 
minze axillary. Pericarp longitudinally ribbed . 5. A. Mitchellii. 
Segments of the fruiting HAE erect or slightly dilated and 
spreading. Clusters axillary and in a terminal spike. : 
Fruiting perianths mostly meros » PROT CUBE M Eintennaptis. 
iti 7. A. viridis. 
i Ei erou 
Pericarp separate from the seed, bleu at least twice as long as 
ria i 8. A. macrocarpus. 
Pericarp e sall, En very thin and not readily separable f from 
the s tet rrow. Clusters allaxillary. Peri 
segments 
Porisnth-segmenta twice as long as the fruit . . . . . . 9. A. tenuis. — 
Perianth-segments about as long as the fruit . . . . . . 10. A. enervis. 
ANTUs.—Pericarp circumsciss when ripe, the lower 
if with ae o perii usually (but uot always) remaining attached after 
Male perianths usually of as many segments as the 
l. A. paniculatus, Zinn. ; Mog. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 257. An erect 
stout annual sometimes dttaintit 5 or 6 ft., the foliage and inflorescence 
» n assuming a reddish hue and sometimes the panicle a rich crimson. 
à, dense cylindrical spikes, the lower ones axillary, upper ones 
icing ense terminal panicle, 6 in. g, the central spike 
ic 
à fine point, 1 to 11 line jon Pericarp mem ied ru yose, c circum- 
Dus Styles 2 or 3. —A. ong, iris Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii. 699; Wight, 
t. 720. 
. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown deaet c Beckler. : 
| on ly an escape from cultivation as sugges R. Brown, bay ro 
P. dan. from his Prodromus. Extensively some in Ini and pro 
pe “mbar single Herb. F. Moeller, of 
specimen from Darling Downs, Law, in 
€ Pears to be "m [ audafu us, Linn, another oultivated reagents nearly allied zi d 
t we usually with a longer and narrower e, and cenit made o 
bracts not exceeding the perianth, iim the eie of the plant is very 
2. A. Blitum ji, 263. An erect or 
» Linn. ; Mog. in DC. Prod. edt ii. 
I eumbent, branching annual, attai ing from 1 ins ft. Leaves on 
omboi 
-Segments almost always 3, mucronate-acute, lanceolate, a 
à green midrib, about i line long, erect or when in fruit slightly 
