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Distbib. — Common in many parts of India. Widely spread both in 
the Old World and in America. 
A stinking weed. The leaves are alternate, narrow and distantly toothed and the inconspi- 
cuous green flowers aro arranged in small sessile clusters. All parts of the plant have a 
remarkably strong smell. 
It is now a common weed throughout Lakhimpur. Though used medicinally in many 
parts o £ the world, the natives of India have never found any use for it. 
American oil of Chenopodium (Baltimore Oil) is obtained from C. amhrosioides yar.. 
antheiminticum Gray, which does not, as far as is known, occur wild in India. There* is a 
good figure of this variety, which is often considered specifically distinct and then known as CL 
antheiminticum L, in Bentley and Trimcn’s Medicinal Plants, Vol. iii, 216. 
49. Spinacia Linn. 
62. S. olmcea Linn. F. B. I. v, 0; Eng. & Prantl iii, la. Gif. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 04 ; Beng. PL 880 ; D. E. P, vi, 3, 330 > 
Pharmacog. lnd. iii, 140. 
.Dibrugarh. No. 97. 
Local name. — Palang, pdlak (this name is also applied to Beta ) . 
(C Spinach,” 
Distrib. —“Cultivated throughout India. Native country unknown. 
Frequently grown as a sag. Apparently wild forms of the plant with very small leaves 
were sometimes found about dwellings. 
XXII. AMARAKTACEAE. 
50. Amaraasus Linn. 
Several species of jAmarantm are grown, in gardens and are used as: 
sag among which the most important are 
63. A. panic ulatus L. F. B I. iv, 718; Eng. & Prantl iii, la, 
103 ; Beng. PL 870 ; D. P. i, 214. 
Dibrugarh. Nos. 26, 78 and 100. 
Djsikjb. — C ultivated throughout India and. Ceylon. Also in East 
and West Asia and N. Africa 
64. A. gaugcticus Linn. F. B, I. iv, 719 ; Beng. PL 870 ; D. E. P. 
i, 212. 
Dibrugarh. No. 107. 
Local Name. — Marsa. 
Distbib. — In India cultivated or found' as an escape, Also in Tropical 
A iii. Africa and America, 
