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nodes none : anthers 2-celled, ovate. Female : calyx subglobose, 

 infundibuliform, 5-cleft : segments equal, patent, scariose : ovary 

 1-celled, 1-ovuled : style very short, thickish : stigmas 2 — 3 : 

 fruit a utricle, ovate, 1-seeded', enclosed in the calyx : aril none : 

 seed vertical, ovate-lenticular. — Herb, puberulous, glaucescent : 

 leaves alternate, entire : flowers disposed in axillary glomerules : 

 bracts teeled, concave, persistent. 



A. poiiTGTiforDES. (Safin.) 



Idenf. Dee. prod. XIII. sec. II. p. 270.— Eoxb. fl. Ind. II. 

 p. 602. 



Syn. Amaranthus polygynoides, Linn. — Eoemeria polygy- 

 noides, Mwnch. — Albersia polygynoides, Kvmth. — A. venticillatus, 

 Pavon. 



JEngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 512. 



Spec. Chae. Stem decumbent or ascending, angulate-striated, 

 glabrous, red or green : branches diffuse, somewhat hairy : leaves 

 obovate, cuneate at the base, very obtuse, glaucous below, some- 

 times white-spotted : glomerules much shorter than the petiole : 

 6 — 8-flowered : bracts subulate, white with a green nerve : 

 flowers somewhat dense, white :■ sepals of the males as long as the 

 bracts, of the females thrice as long : utricle narrow-ovate, smooth 

 below, wrinkled and tubercled above, 3-cleft at the apex, indehis- 

 cent : seed acute at the margin, smooth, black. 



Bengal, flowering in the cold season. 



GENUS VI. MENQEA. 

 nConcecia Diandria. Sex: Syst: 



Geit. Chae. Monoecious, unibracteate : calyx 1-sepaled, lateral, 

 erect, glabrous. Maxe : stamens 1 or 2, free : staminodes 

 none: anthers 2-celled. Eemale : ovary ] -celled, 1-ovuled: style 

 very short: stigmas 2 — 3, fQiform, divaricate: utricle subovate, 

 1-seeded, naked : seed lenticular-reniform : aril none. — Herbs, 

 much branched : leaves alternate : flowers collected in axillary 

 and sessile glomerules, males terminal, somewhat solitary : bracts 

 scaliform, keeled, membranaceous, persistent. 



(1) M. TENTJIEOLIA. Bec. 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. II. p. 271. 



Syn. Amaranthus tenuifolius, Willd. — A. angustifolius, Hoxb. 



Enqrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 718. 



Spec. Chae. Herbaceous : stem erect, angled, striated, green : 

 leaves lanceolate-linear or linear, much attenuated at the base, 

 glabrous, glaucous-green : nerves prominent below ; glomerules 



