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middle, membranous, rugose. Seed 1—1-5 mm. in diam., flattened ; 
testa shining, black. Willd. Hist. Amarant. t. 6, f. 11; Roxb. FI. Ind. 
ITT. 606; Wall. Cat. 6896 eacl. C.; Moq. in DC. Prodr. XIII. 2. 261; 
Mig. FI. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 1033; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 719; Trimen 
Fl. Ceyl. III. 396 ; Cooke Bomb. FI. II. 489 ; Prain Beng. Plants 870. 
A. tricolor, Willd. Sp. Pl. IV. 383; Roxb. 1. c. 608; Wall. Cat. 6902. 
A. lanceolatus, Roxb. 1. c. 604; Wall. Cat 6895. A. tristis, Willd. 
1. c. 8385; Roxb. 1. c. 604; Wall. Cat. 6904, A. C.; Wight Ic. t. 713. 
Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 215. A. oleraceus, Willd. |. c. 386 ; Roxb. 
1. c. 605 ; Wight Ic. t. 715. A. polygamus, Willd. 1. c. 384; Roxb. 
]. c. 603; Wall. Cat. 6899 excl. D; Wight Ic. t. 714. A. lividus, 
Willd. |. c. 536; Roxb. 1. c. 605; Wall. Cat. 6896 C. A. melancholi- 
cus, Willd. 1. c. 383; Roxb. 1. c. 608. 
| PENANG: about George Town, Deschamps! SiIncarorE: Mac- 
pherson road, Ridley 6256! Duistris. Tropical regions, cultivated. 
4. AMARANTUS VIRIDIS, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2. 1405 (1763). An 
erect branching glabrous herb 30—60 cm. high, the branches grooved, 
oftenreddish. Leaves membranous, ovate or deltoid-ovate, obtuse and 
usually notched at apex, cuneate or truncate at base; both surfaces 
more or less white-dotted when dry; 2—8 cm. long, 1—5 cm. broad; 
main nerves about 6 pairs, slender; petiole slender, 1—6 cm. long. 
Flowers shortly pedicelled, in small cymules in axillary clusters and 
in terminal and axillary slender more or less interrupted paniculate 
racemes; bract and bracteoles ovate, acute, green-keeled, shorter 
than the perianth-lobes. Perianth-lobes 3, in 3 ovate-acuminate, 
in 2 obovate, mucronate, membranous, green-keeled, 1—1°5 mm. 
long. Stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong; filaments short, slender. 
Ovary oblong-obovate; style thick ; “stigmas 2—3, subulate. Ufricle 
suborbicular, indehiscent, membranous, rugose, 1:5 mm. in diam., 
surmounted by the persistent style. Seed lenticular, smooth, shining, 
black, 1 mm. in diam. Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 605; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. IV. 720; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 397; Cooke Bomb. FI. II. 490; 
Prain Beng. Plants 871. A. polystachyus, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6901. 
A. fasciatus, Roxb. 1. c. 609; Wight Ic. t. 717. Huxolus caudatus, 
Mog. in DC. Prodr. XIII. 2. 274; Wight Ic. t. 1773; Miq. Fl. Ind. 
Bat I. i. 1035. 
Matacea: Griffith! Stncapore: Kurz! Hullett 241! Ridley 
4690! Deschamps!—Distrip. All tropical and warm countries, a 
weed of cultivation. 
5. CyaTHuLA, Lour. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite, petiolate, entire. 
