Euxolus.)} AMARANTACEAE. 375 
broadly on sinaitesate somewhat acute, 3-nerved. Stamens of the same 
length. Stigmas t tlast. Utricle 1“, ovoid, quite enclosed. — Moquin, 
in ity Habe XU, gy II, p. 322. — Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 94. 
Oahu! on the main range; Maui. In appearance much like Pisonia um- 
ere ity pnd which it shares the same name, «Papala» 
2. C. obovata, Gawd. 1. c. tab. 47. — Leaves i Coma S varying much 
in size, 2—7'  1— 4‘, shortly apiculate, rounded or emarginate, coriaceous, 
with thickened and partly reflexed margins, the petioles 1-3‘. Flowers 
brownish, 1—1"/2, Bracts 1/s;—1/4 as long, ovate or orbicular. Sepals 
somewhat obtuse. Stamens about '/2 the length of the tric 
O.: Prod, 11. 
Wee peers or partly exserted. — Wawra, in 
orb 1875, 
ahu! leaves ne obtuse; Hawaii! Kau, leaves smailer, apiculate, occasionally 
lla 
8 var. elliptica. — Leaves elliptical or lanceglate, 2—6' X 1—2', obtuse 
or acuminate. Sepals rather acutely lanceolate. Stamens */2 their length. 
Kauai! Maui! (Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 44) 
5. EUXOLUS, Raf. 
Flowers usually monoecious, tribracteate. Sepals and stamens 3, rarely 5, 
the latter free. Staminodes none. Anthers 2-celled. Ovary 1-ovulate. 
Style short, divided to the base into 3 stigmatic lobes. Fruit an naa 
utricle. Seed vertical, crustaceous. Embryo coiled round albu 
Rintal herbs with alternate leaves. Flowers sessile in clusters, cae all 
or te the upper ones arranged in spikes or panicles. 
About a dozen species, widely distributed, distinguished from Amarantus only by the 
hiremely fruit 
eatus, Mog. in DC. Prod. XIII, Sect. I, p. 276. — Erect, 1—2 ft. 
high, icicles with striate stems. Leaves lanceolate to linear, 2--4‘ >< 
3-9", including a petiole of 10—18" in which they gradually merge, 
obtuse, mucronulate. glabrous, with prominent nerves; the lower leaves 
obovate-oblong. Flowers almost dioecious, green, less than 1“, in 
lower part of the branch in axillary clusters of 5 or 6, in the upper part 
crowded in paniculate spikes of 1/;—1/ in length with a pubescent rhachis. 
Bracts unequal, about ly the length of the calyx. Sepals of male fi. 
lanceolate-acute, of the female fl. spathulate-obtuse, both mucronulate. 
tricle obovoid, puckered or rugose, dark green, rather thin. Seed len- 
ticular, black, shining. — Ama aii lineatus, R. Br. 
Near oe cei sien in Kola and Honuaula, Mani! Hawaii and Kauai. An early 
from Aus a, 
E. virkiie, Mog., a © smaller plant with ovate or rhomboidal leaves and a long ter- 
minal spike, was a common weed in gardens and probably ve become natt 
since. The Amarantus Flitem, enumerated by Wawra and collected in canefields of 
Maui, is likely to be the same plant. 
