10 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
IV. 718; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 396; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 489; 
Prain Beng. Plants 869. 
PENANG: road sides and waste places, Deschamps! PROVINCE 
WELLESLEY: at Krian, Ridley 9419! Mawacca: Griffith 4183 B! 
SincaPpore: Ridley 8920! Distr. India, Ceylon, Malay Archi- 
pelago, etc. 
2. AMARANTUS CauDaTUS, Linn. Sp. PI. 990 (1753). An erect 
glabrous herb ; stems striate. Leaves membranous; elliptic, or ovate- 
lanceolate, obtuse at apex, cuneate at base; both surfaces glabrous, 
often dotied ; 3-7 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad; main nerves 8-10 pairs, 
prominent beneath ; petiole slender 3-5 cm. long. Flowers very 
numerous, in cymules in dense clusters axillary or along the rachis 
of terminal or axillary drooping spikes 10-20 cm. long; bracts 
obovate, sharply long mucronate. Perianth-lobes 5, cblanceolate, mu- 
cronate, keeled. Stamens 5; anthers oblong. Ovary ovoid; stigmas 
2—3, often thick. Ufricle circumsciss about the middle, membra- 
nous, rugose. Seed about 1 mm. in diam. ; testa black, shining. Moq. 
in DC. Prodr. XIII. 2. 255; Wall. Cat. 6907; Willd. Hist. Ama- 
rant. 36; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 719; Prain Beng. Plants 870. 
A. cruentus, Willd.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 610. A. caudatus and A. 
Alopecurus, Hochst. 
SINGAPORE : Ridley 9100!, 10403! 10443! apparently a garden 
weed ; Deschamps! Disrris. cultivated and run wild in most tropical 
countries. 
This seems to be merely a small weedy form of A. caudatus and except for 
the absence of spines comes very close to A. spinosus. 
3. AMARANTUS GANGETICUS, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1268 (1759). 
An erect glabrous herb, 60-120 cm. high; stem stout, branching, 
grooved. Leaves membranous, lanceolate, ovate, rnomboid-ovate or 
deltoid-ovate, obtusely acute and mucronate at apex, rounded and 
then acuminate at base and decurrent on the petiole; both sur- 
faces glabrous, white-dotted when dry; 5—15 cm. long, 2—10 cm. 
broad; main nerves about 10 pairs, prominent; petiole slender, 2—8 
em. long, the upper half bordered by the decurrent margins of the 
blade. Flowers very numerous, in cymules clustered in the axils of 
the leaves and also forming a long terminal more or less interrupted 
spike, the ¢ and 2 mixed; bract ovate, scarious, with a long slender 
awn 4 mm. long; the bracteoles rather shorter, lessawned. Perianth- 
lobes 3, lanceolate, long-awned, up to 4mm. long, those of ¢ shorter 
and less awned. Stamens 3; anthers oblong; filaments slender. 
Ovary ovoid; stigmas 3, subulate. Ultricle circumsciss about the 
