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lower ones rufous liver-colored on the upper surface, bright purple 
on the lower, with elevated veins — the upper ones green, with red 
tips; the petioles channelled, bright purple, smooth, and edged at 
the top with the decreasing leaf; the lower ones nearly their length ; 
the glomerules subsessile, dark purple, on a very short, undivided 
peduncle ; the calyx five leaved ; the leaflets oblong, purple, mem- 
braneous, ending in a dark red point. Professor Martyn observes 
that this species varies in the color of their leaves : as, when grown 
in the open air, they are of a dirty purple on their upper surface, 
and in the younger ones green ; while, in the stone, the whole 
plant is of a beautiful fine purple color. It is, however, easily 
distinguished in all states by its color, its leaves, its lateness of flow- 
ering, &c. It is a native of Guiana and the East Indies. Mr. Mil- 
ler remarks that it grows to the same height of the Tricolor, and in 
the manner of its growth greatly resembles it ; but the leaves have 
only two colors, an obscure purple and a bright crimson, so blended 
as to set ofl" each other, making a fine appearance when the plants 
are vigorous. 
Amaraidlms tricolor. Three-colored Amaranthus. In this species 
the stems rise from a foot and a half to two feet in height ; they are 
obscurely angular, smooth, and upright; the leaves blue with a red 
point, smooth and waved ; the younger ones yellow, with red, espe- 
cially the tips ; those in a more mature state coralled at the base, 
violet in the middle, and green at the end; the old ones green with 
a violet base ; the petioles very long, smooth, green, channelled, and 
bordered ; the glomerules germinate, green, and axillary ; the calyx 
three-leaved ; the leaflets oblong, acuminate, membranaceous, with 
a green nerve. It varies in the color of the leaves, which are less 
painted in the open air than in the stone. It has been long cultiva- 
ted for the beauty of its variegated leaves, in which the colors are 
elegantly mixed. When the plant is in full vigor, these are large 
and closely set from the bottom to the top of the stalk. The branches 
also form a sort of pyramid ; so that in form, as well as the beauty 
