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Spinacia.] CHENOPODIACEA. 879 
* Aromatic, glandular, pale green ; leaves short-petioled, oblong or lanceo- 
late, obtuse, lower sinua te, upper entire ; embryo incompletely annular ; 
margin of seed obtuse ; ; stigmas 5 [p p- 878] ambrosioides 
1718. CaeNoropium ateum Linn. : eR Ud bbe hy BVI ee 
E. D.C. 1008. C. viride F. I. ii. 58. C. laciniatum F. I. 
ii. 59. 
In all the provinces, cultivated, and a weed in cultivated 
ground. 
A tall herb, 1-10 feet high. Vernac. Betud-sak, 
chandan betu. 
1719. CHENOpopIUM AMBRosIoIDES Linn.; F. B. I. v. 4; E. D. 
Cc. 1009 
‘In most of the provinces. 
A tall, much-branched herb. 
780. Beta Linn. 
Succulent, glabrous herbs, with fleshy roots; leaves radical and 
ternate, subentire. Flowers small, herma phrodite, ternate or 
bracts distin ct; bracteoles 2. Perianth calycine, simple, urceo- 
late, 5-fid, adnate below to the ovary ; bases of segments hardened 
in fruit, ribbed on the back. Stamens 5, perigynous; filaments 
subulate; anthers oblong, 2-celled. Ovary depressed-globose, 
half-inferior. Disk thickish, surrounding the base of the ovary ; 
Ovule subsessile : ; stigmas connate below in a style, free above, 
usually 2-3, subulate, papillose within. Fruit adnate below to 
the hardened perianth, enclosed above by the perianth- en ; 
1- 
- Pericarp fleshy, indehiscent, not adhering to the seed. Seed 
zontal; testa thin; embryo annular, surrounding the copious, 
i alb en. 
1720. Bera vougaris Linn.; F. B. I. v. 5. B. benghalensis 
F. I. ii, 59, 
In most of the piace cultivated. 
A herb with large tap-root. Vernac. Palak, palanki. 
The Beet. 
781. Spinacia Linn. 
Erect, annual, glabrous herbs; leaves alternate, petioled, entire 
Sinuate or lobed. Flowers dicecious ; males in terminal, leafless 
