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shorter than the petiole, subternate, few-flowered, rather lax: 

 braots lanceolate, green, nerved : sepal lanceolate, pale-greenish : 

 stamens 1, rarely 2 ; ovary obovate .- utricle 5-ribbed, smooth, 

 green : seed lenticular, polished, black : flowers green. 



Peninsula. Bengal. Flowering in the rainy season. 



GENUS VII. EUXOLtrS. 

 Triandria Honogynia. Seie : Syst : 

 Deriv. A word used by Theophrastus. 



G-EN. Chae. Flowers monoecious, rarely hermaphrodite, tri- 

 bracteate: calyx 3, rarely 5 -sepaled: stamens 3, rarely 5 or 2, 

 free : anthers 2-celled : ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled : style very short : 

 stigmas 3, filiform : fruit a utricle, 1-seeded : seed vertical, kidney- 

 shaped : aril none. — Erect or diffuse herbs : leaves alternate or 

 -scattered, decurrent into the petiole, apiculated with a very 

 small, straight, or slightly curved point : flowers heaped together 

 in axillary heads, or axillary and terminal spikes, sometimes, 

 panicled : bracts keeled, conclave, persistent. 



(I) E. CAUDATUS. {Moq.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 274. 



Syn. Chenopodium caudatum, Jacq.Coll. — Amarantus oleraceus. 

 Lam. — A. gracilis, Desf. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1773. 



Spec. Chae. Stem erect, angularly striated, glabrous, green : 

 leaves long petioled, ovate or rhombovate, narrowing at both 

 ends, bluntish, emarginate, glabrous, green: spikes ascending, 

 somewhat interrupted below, more compact and sub cylindrical 

 above : flowers sessile, aggregated in dense glomerules, green : 

 bracts longer than the sepals; utricle globose, pointed very 

 rough: sepals 3. 



Coimbatore, in waste ground. The species of Euxolus and 

 Amarantus are most difficult to discriminate. In this the seed is 

 enclosed in the thickened persistent indehiscent case or utricle, 

 while in Amarantus the case splits all round, permitting the seed 

 to drop out. In all other respects they are the same. 



(2) E. POLTGAMrs. {Willd.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 272. 



Syn. Amarantus polygamus, Lmn. — Boxh. flor. Ind. III. 

 p. 603. 



3ngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 713-4.— Esmph. Amb. V. t. 82. 

 fig.l- 



