418 ON SEEDLINGS 



Hypocotyl as in last species, deep violet red, 1-4 cm. long. 



Cotyledons violet-red, greenish above, glabrous ; lanceolate- 

 oblong, obtuse, 1 cm. long, 4 mm. wide ; petiole channelled above, 

 8'5 mm. long. 



Stem herbaceous, annual, erect, angled, deep violet-red, pub- 

 escent ; 1st and 2nd internodes 1 mm, long ; 3rd 3 mm. ; then 

 numerous crowded internodes follow. 



Leaves glabrous, thickened and slightly scabrous at the margin, 

 subplicate, deep violet-red suffused with green above ; petioles deeply 

 channelled above, striate on the back, with raised or slightly winged 

 margins alongside the channels, somewhat curved on the lower 

 side at their insertion on the stem, slightly pubescent. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Eotund-ovate, very obtuse, emarginate, subcuneate 

 at the base. 



Nos. 3-6. Eotund-ovate, very obtuse, emarginate, subcordate at 

 the base. 



Ultimate leaves ovate, retuse, apiculate, subdecurrent on the 

 petiole at the base, glabrous, crisped at the margin, greenish -purple 

 with crimson petiole, and nerves beneath. 



Scleropus amaranthoides, Schrad. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, 1-2-5 cm. long, stained with red. 



Cotyledons linear-oblong, obtuse, entire, petiolate, membranous, 

 glabrous, green, often tinged with red beneath, distinctly one- 

 nerved. 



Stem erect, terete, angled, herbaceous, glabrous ; 1st internode 

 4-6 cm. long ; 2nd and 3rd shorter. 



First leaves simple, cauline, alternate, petiolate, exstipulate, 

 oblong, entire or slightly emarginate, glabrous, pale green tinged 

 with red beneath, distinctly alternately pinnatinerved. 



CHEXOPODIACE.E. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL iii. 43. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary is superior, quite free or im- 

 mersed in the receptacle at the base only, but included in the 

 perianth when that is present, ovoid, or globose and depressed, 

 rarely oblong or flask-shaped, and one-celled. It is syncar- 

 pous and made up of two to three carpels. The ovule is 

 solitary, basal and erect, or suspended from a long funicle, and 



