4 CXVII. CHENOPODIACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) (Chenopodium. 
on each side, clusters in lax axillary and terminal almost leafless corymbose 
panicles, sepals obtusely keeled spreading in fruit, seed horizontal large 
opaque pitted hardly keeled. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 902; Mog. in DC. 
Prodr. xiii. 2. 68; Fl. Dan. t. 2049. 
WESTERN TIBET; Ladak, alt. 12,000 ft, Thomson. PESHAWUR; Stewart.— 
DisTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia, N. America (introduced). 
Stout or slender, with spreading branches, 1-3 ft. high, odourheavy. Leaves 
3-5 iu., almost shining, broadly. ovate, pale green, thin, 3-5-nerved from near the 
usually cordate base, Clusters large or small. 
4. C. murale, Linn. Sp. Pl. 219; nearly glabrous, leaves bright- 
green rhombic or deltoid-ovate acute sides lobed and sharply toothed base 
cuneate, clusters in lax or dense axillary divaricate cymes, sepals obtusely 
keeled incurved in fruit, seed horizontal dotted acutely keeled opaque. 
Boiss. Fi. Orient. iv. 902; Mog. in DC. Prodr. xii. 2. 69; FL. Dan. 
t. 2048. C. Gandhium, Ham. (& Chamrium, Ham.), Wall. Cat. 6953. 
C. Hookerianum, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xii. 2. 68. 
Uerer Gangetic VALLEY and the PANJAB; Royle, &c. Kumaon and NEPAL; 
Hamilton, &c. Deccan PENINSULA; at Bangalore, Coimbatore and elsewhere. 
CEYLON ; at Trincomalee, G@lenie.— DISTRIB. Ubiquitous. 
Rather fetid. Stem 6-14 in., stout or slender, erect or ascending; branches 
decumbent. Leaves $-3 in. broad, rather shining; petiole long or short. Spikes 
sometimes very slender. 
5. C. glaucum, Linn. Sp. Pl. 220; branches decumbent or prostrate, 
leaves oblong or ovate-oblong sinuate-lobed or -toothed very mealy 
beneath, clusters in short dense axillary spikes, sepals keeled nearly 
covering the utricle. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 333; Mog. in DC. Prodr. 
xiii. 2. 72. 
WESTERN TIBET; Ladak, alt. 12-14,000 ft., T'homson.— DisTRIP. Europe, N. 
and W. Asia, N. America, S. Chili, Australasia. 
Much and widely branched, often succulent; stem 6-18 in. shining. Leaves 
&-lin., tip obtuse or rounded, base cuneate. Spikes 1-lin., simple or compound; 
lateral flowers usually 2-4-merous, with a vertical very small seed; terminal 5-merous, 
with a larger often horizontal seed. 
** Strongly aromatic glandular herbs. Embryo incompletely annular. 
6. C. Botrys, Linn. Sp. PI. 219; erect, glandular-pubescent, branches 
and cymes spreading and recurved, lower leaves petioled ovate or oblong 
deeply sinuate or lobulate upper oblanceolate more entire, cymes short 
axillary and in long terminal racemes, sepals glandular-pubescent enclosing 
the utricle, seed horizontal subglobose smooth margin obtuse. Moq. in 
DC. Prodr. xi. 2. 75; Boiss. FL. Orient. iv. 903; Sibth. Fl. Gree. t. 253. 
C. ilicifolium, Griff. Notul. iv. 337, and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 521. C. nepalense, 
Hort. Monsp. Ambrosia Botrys, Mog. Chenop. Enum. 37; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 73. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 4-10,000 ft. PESHAWUR ; 
Stewart. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 11-14,000 ft., a weed in fields, —DISTRIB. Europe, 
N. and W., Asia, N. Africa, introduced into America, 
Very aromatic. Stem grooved and ribbed, 6-18 in. high, stout or slender. 
1-3 in. usually oak-like, very obtuse; petiole variable. 
flowers solitary or clustered, minute. 
Leaves 
Cymes short, branched, 
7. C. ambrosioides, Linn. Sp. Pl. 219; erect, puberulous and glan- 
dular, branches strict, leaves shortly petioled oblong or lanceolate obtuse 
