541 



The leaves are used as a pot-herb and the seed as a grain in 

 India (Watt, Comm, Prod. India, p, 62 — var. oleraceus). 



An annual ; found as a weed in cultivated ground, Onitsha; 

 6 in. high about towns in fields, Nupe (Barter, Herb. Kew) ; 

 cultivated in India (Watt. Diet. Econ. Prod. India). 



Amaranthus caudatus, Linn.\ Fl. Trop. Afr. VI, Sect. 1, 

 p, 31. 



/«.— Rchb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xxiv. t. 297, If. 1-2 ; Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflan. iii, part 1a, p. 103, f. 56. 



Vernac. iiames.—'Eio (Lokoja, EUioft) ; [Alleyfafu or Alayafu 

 (Hausa) Zakwondiam (Fufulde), Dalziel] ; Ondi (Sierra Leone, 

 Scott Elliot) ; Myene Afia (Eifik, Old Calabar, Holland) ; Jimboa 

 (Loanda, Welwitsch) ; Ramdana (India, Watt) — Love-lies-bleeding. 



Upper and Lower Guinea and more or less throughout 

 Tropical Africa and in India. 



Grain used in Tropical Africa for food ; leaves eaten, Kam- 

 pala, Uganda ; seeds edible, cultivated at Layah (Scott Elliot, 

 Herb, Kew) ; a native spinach, Yola, a red variety cultivated 

 (Dalziel, Herb. Kew) ; cultivated as a pot-herb, Loanda (Hiern, 

 Cat. AVelw. Afr. PI. iv. p. 8S6) ; used for salads, Old Calabar ; 

 cultivated in Africa for its leaves used as spinach (Chevalier, 

 Bull. Soc. Nat. d'Accl. France, 1912, p. 242), in gardens through- 

 out the plains of India and cultivated by the hill tribes of 

 India as a regular field crop on account of its grain (Watt, 

 Comm. Prod, India). 



The plant is an annual, 1-3 ft. high and in addition to its 

 use as a vegetable, is of value for ornament ; from the time of 



sowm 



months 



Amaranthus polygamus 



p. 36. 



Ill, — Rumpf, Amb. v, t. 82, f. 1 ; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. or, ii. 

 t. 714. 



Vernac. names. — Chumlar-sag, Doggali -kura, Pandi, &c. 

 (India, Hooper). 



Katagum ; Togoland ; British East Africa ; Nyasaland and 

 widely distributed in many warm countries. 



Grown as a pot-herb in India (Diet. Econ. Prod, India ; Hooper, 

 Agric. Ledger, No. 6, 1904, p. 64); the leaves boiled with water 

 and mixed with salt and chillies (Hooper, I.e.). 



Annual, about 2 ft. high commonly cultivated. 



Amaranthus spinosus, Linn.; Fl, Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, 



p. 32. 



IlL — Rumpf, Amb. v. t. 83, L 1 {Blitum americanum) ; 

 Willd. Hist. Am, t, 4, f. 8; Desc. Ant. v. t, 314; Wight, Ic. PL 

 Ind. or. ii. t. 513; Wood, Natal Ph iv. t. 310; Echb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. xxiv. t. 297 ; ff. 3-5. 



