870 BENGAL PLANTS. [Amarantus. 
In all the provinces. 
An erect, eae herb. Beng. Kanta-nutia, kanta- 
miris; Santal. Janum arak’. 
1696. Amarantus panicuLatus Linn.; F. B. I. iv. 718. A. fru 
mentaceus FB. I, iii. 610; E. D. A. 925. 
In most of the provinces, cultivated. 
A tall, robust annual. Santal. Larka baha. 
1697. AMARANTUS cAUDATUS Linn seh B. Liv. 719; E. D. A. 921. 
In the south-western erin cultivated. 
A tall, robust annual 
1698, AmaRANTUS GaNGETICUS Linn.; F. I. iii. 616; F. B. 1 
iv. 719; E. D. A. 997. A. oleraceus FI. iii, 6055.5. De 
. 938. A. lanceolatus F. I. iii. 607; E. D. A. 932. 
% atropurpureus F. I. iii. 608; F. B. I. iv. 722; B.D. 
A.919. A. tr alae I. iii. 608. A. melancholicus F.1. — 
iii. 608; E. D. A. 987. A. lividus F. I. iii. 605; E. D. 
A. 933. 
In all the aarp cultivated, 
An erect, stout annual, very variable in colour and 
shape of leaves. aka d. Lal-sig; Beng. Dengua, lal- 
shak, rakna-shak, ldl-nati, kanka-nati, gobura- -nati; - 
Santal. Arak’ gandhari 
he species aga by Roxburgh are all well-marked races of 
this variety, and some of them, but more particularly the race — 
described in the ‘flora tnates.» as a A: perce: possess many more 
or less distinguishable and d s or cultivated forms. 
1698/2. Var. Tristis. A. tristis F. I. iii. 604; E. D. A. 950. — 
+ po mus F, I. i 
03. 
In most os the picesious: cultivated. : 
An annual herb with many prostrate branches from neat 
the base of the stem. Santal. Pond-gandhari : 
As variable in shape and coloration of leaves as the preceding — 
eae from which this mainly differs in being cut down several 4 
tim new crop of shoots springing up, whereas the forms 
included under the typical plant are either taken up by the root 
or have the tender tops only once taken as a vegetable. The tw — 
species described in the Flora Indica correspond to two well- 
marked 
RA ig a PA tae eee 
cultivated forms. The 4. polygamus of Roxburgh is not the true : 
plant of that name, 
