Amarantus. AMARANTACE®. 869 
Stamens 5; sepals 5:— 
Leaf-axils with 5 spines; stems terete ; ss ovate or oblong, 
obtuse ; bracts setaceous; flowers in den r lax spikes...spinosus. 
Leaf-axils not spinous; stems striate ; Abie age a or ae 
ceolate ; bracts acicular ; spikes thyrsoid :— 
lene acute or acuminate; ae recurved, much exceeding the 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate sepa paniculatus 
Leaves obtuse, rarely acute; waste hardly recurved, “not ini atly 
udatus 
als 
Erect; flowers clustered in lower axils, and also forming a long, 
terminal spike; sepals long-awned, much exceeding the utricle 
leaves ovate, oblong, or lanceolate :— 
Stems br. ranching above the middle; yielding only one crop 
annual gangeticus 
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Stems beatiching near the base; yielding oo crops annually 
wgeticus var. tristis. 
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Diffuse; flowers cluster ed, all axillary ; tee short-awn no 
greatly exceeding the utricle ; leaves ovate-elliptic or loi -OV 
pal 
*Bracts acute, hardly awned, shorter than the sepals ; aoe papain ent 
°F, Tarely, dehiscent; leaves obtuse, rounded or notched :—[p. 868] 
tamens 8 ; sepals 3 :-— 
Utricle eck. at the tip, rugose, erg one clusters axillary and 
in terminal, panicled, slender spikes 
Leaves green 
Leaves with a pale crescentic, transverse band 
viridis var. fasciata. 
viridis 
Utricle blunt at the ti 
Utricle membranous onblebad or broadly ovate, io a 
Procumbent ; leaves small, 2-lobed; clusters all axi 
tum. 
Tall, succulent; leaves large, oblong or rounded; clusters 
axillary and in terminal, simple or lobed spikes 
Blitum var. oleracea. 
Utricle rugose, ovoid, indehiscent or dehiscent; leaves obtuse, 
rarely retuse or 2-lobed ; clusters all axillary ..........-. poly 
Stamens 2; sepals 2; utricle orbicular, compressed, membranous 
indehiscent ; clusters minute, all A gale ; leaves small, linear-oblong, 
With roun rey obtuse, or 2-lobed ti tei nuifolius 
1695. Amarantus sprnosus Linn. ; F. I, iii. 611; F. B. I. iv. 718; 
E. D. A. 948, 
