392 Amaranthacee —lresine. 
1. I. Hérbstit.—This plant has very handsome foliage 
variegated with purplish red and dark violet, or in a variety 
called atreo-reticuluta 
with yellow. Anative 
of Brazil. 
I. Lindéni is ano- 
ther plant with orna- 
mental foliage referred 
to this genus, but in 
the absence of flowers 
there is some doubt of 
its affinities. 
Gomphron globose 
(fig. 211), Globe 
Amaranth, a pretly 
annual, is sometimes 
planted out in’ shel- 
tered situations. There 
are crimson, purple, 
and white varieties. 
The flowers and bracts 
being dry and scarious, 
they will keep their 
colour throughout the 
winter if cut at the 
right time, and are 
therefore desirable fur 
mixing with other 
everlasting flowers. Nutive of the East Indies. 
The genus Alternintherw furnishes several dwarf tufted 
plants with small coloured leaves: dl. spathulata, A. séssilis 
var. amid, ete., are already widely diffused in gardens. 
Fig. 211. Gomphrena globosa. (} nat. size.) 
Orper XCIV.—-LAURACEA:. 
A large order of ornamental shrubs and trees, often aromatic. 
Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, usually entire, exstipulate, 
frequently furnished with ummersed pellucid dots. Flowers 
vencrally small and inconspicuous, unisexual or bisexual, ar- 
ranged in sessile clusters or umbellate or paniculate. Perianth 
inferior, 4- to 6-lobed. Stamens definite; anthers opening by 
