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purple : leaves ovate, acuminate, purplish : spikes nearly equalling 

 the leaves, long-peduncled : flowers purple : outer divisions of 

 the calyx oblong-elliptic : berries dark purple, obsoletely 4-lobed, 

 greenish and purple at the apex before ripening : seeds pale 

 brown. 



Malabar. Bengal. The B. alha is a mere variety of the 

 above. 



(2) B. coEDii'oilA. (Lam.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 223.— Eoxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 105. 



Syn. B. crassifolia, Wight. 



Engrav. Eheede Mah VII. t. 24. 



Spec. Chab. Climbing, stem variegated green and purple : 

 leaves cordate,, entire, undulated : spikes much shorter than the 

 leaves, long-peduncled ; flowerq purplish without, whitish-green 

 within : berries dark purple. 



Malabar, flowering in the cool season. 



(3) B. LuoiDA. {Linn.) 



lient. Dee. 1. c. p. 224. — Linn. spec. p. 391. 



Spec. Chae. Stems erect, purplish: leaves opposite, sub- 

 sessile, orbicular-ovate, subcordate, greenish-purple : racemes 

 shorter than the leaf, densely branched : flowers purple : berries 

 red. 



Most parts of the country. 



ORDER CXXVIII. AMARANTACEJE. 



Calyx 3 — 5-sepaled, sepals free, or sometimes more or less 

 combined at the base, equal or nearly ?o, subscariose, glabrous 

 or afterwards pubescent, greenish or coloured, usually corol- 

 line, persistent, unchanged after flowering: aestivation ini- 

 bricated: corolla none: stamens hypogynous, 5 fertile, 

 opposite the sepals, 5 sterile, alternate with the fertile 

 ones, or none : all free, or connate below into a cup or tube : 

 fertile filaments filiform or subulate or dilated, sometimes 

 3-cleft,sterile ones quite entire or fimbriated, flat, sometimes 

 very minute and unguiform or tooth-shaped: anthers 2 or 

 1-celled, erect, ovate or linear, introrse, dehiscing length- 

 ways, affixed by the back : ovary 1, ovate, compressed, free, 



