Acroglochtn.] cxvu. CHENOPODIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 3 



Amarantus persicarioides, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 311. A. . cauliflorus, Link 

 Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 389. A. diandrus, Spreng. Neue Entd. iii. 20. A. 

 persicarioides and A. acroglochin, Spreng. Syst. i. 927. Lecanocarpus cauli- 

 tlorus Nees PI. Hort. Bonn. 4, t. 2. L. nepalensis, Fisch. mss. Blitanthus 

 nepalensis, Beichb. Cat. Hort. Dresd. 1824. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 8-5000 ft., to Kumaon and ? Nepal. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T. DISTEIB. Yunan. 



Stem 1-2 ft. ; branches or short, erecto-patent, strict. Leaves 1-2$ in., obtuse 

 or acute, lobulate and erose ; petiole J-l in. Cymes shorter than the leaves, in. long 

 and broad, branches rigid spreading. Flowers about -^ in. diain., green. 



2. CHENOPODXUBX, Linn. 



Erect or prostrate herbs. Stem angled. Leaves alternate, entire lobed 

 or toothed. Flowers minute, 2-sexual, in axillary clusters or cymes. Sepals 

 3-5. Stamens 1-5. Disk 0. Ovary free, depressed or compressed; styles 

 2-3. Utricle membranous, included in the perianth. Seed horizontal or 

 vertical, testa crustaceous, albumen floury ; embryo annular. Species 

 about 50, all climates. 



* Scentless or foetid herbs. Sepals 5, herbaceous (not succulent in fruit). 

 Emlryo perfectly annular. 



1. C. album, Linn. Sp. PL 219 ; erect or ascending, mealy or green, 

 leaves rhombic deltoid or lanceolate acute or obtuse, entire toothed or 

 irregularly lobulate, upper narrower more entire, sepals keeled covering the 

 utricle, seed smooth keeled. Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 70; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 901; Wall. Cat. 6952 (excl. most of C. (= Amarantus viridis). 

 C. giganteum, Don Prodr. 74 ; Moq. I. c. C. nepalense, [Hort. Monsp. 

 C. album, Linn. C. viride, Linn., and C.- laciniatum, Linn.; Boxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 58, 59. C. purpurascens, Ham. t in Wall, Cat. 6955. ? C. vulpinum, 

 Wall. Cat.-Q954> A. 



TEOPICAL and TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, ascending to 

 12,000 ft. (wild and cultivated), and in WESTERN TIBET to 14,000 ft. Plains of 

 HENGAL, the GANGETIC VALLEY and the PANJAB, KHASIA MTS., cult. DECCAN 

 PENINSULA. DISTRIB. Ubiquitous. 



Stem 1-10 ft., rarely slender or decumbent, angled, often striped green, red or 

 purple. Leaves extremely variable, in the cult, forms 4-6 in. long, with the petiole 

 ^sometimes as long or longer. Clusters in compact or lax panicled spikes, which in 

 cult, forms become thyrsoid. Seeds rarely vertical. The cultivated forms vary from 

 green to red. 



2. C. opulifolium, Sclirad. in DC. Fl. Franc, v. 372; erect or 

 ascending, mealy, leaves broadly rhombic obtuse or acute sinuate-lobed 

 upper similar, cymes axillary lax-fld. usually shorter than the leaves, sepals 

 keeled partially covering the utricle, seed punctulate margin rounded. 

 Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 67 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 901. 



CENTRAL and WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich; Garwhal ?, Edgeworth ; 

 Kashmir and Lahore, alt. 6-8000 ft., Clarke. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-14,000 ft., 

 Thomson. DISTRIB. Europe, N. and W. Asia. 



Very near C. album, and not easily distinguished in the small acute-leaved form 

 except by the seed. In the ordinary state with broad openly sinuate obtuse leaves it 

 is dietinct enough. 



3. C. hybridum, Linn. Sp. PL 219 ; erect, nearly glabrous, leaves 

 large broadly triangular ovate long acuminate with 2-4 broad acute lobes 



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