Atriplez.] CXVII. OHENOPODIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 7 
2. 93; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 909; Ledeb. Ic. Fl. Alt. t.42. A. laciniata, 
Aitchison Cat. Panjab Pl. 125, and Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
N.W. INDIA and the PANJAB; from the Jumna westward.  KUNAWUR and 
WESTERN TIBET, alt. 8-12,000 ft., Falconer, Thomson.—DISsTRIB. Affghanistan, 
Turkestan, Soongaria, Altai Mts. . 
Branched from the root; branches firm, 1-2 ft. Leaves usually small, 1-14 in., 
pale; petiole slender. Fruiting-bracts very variable, from ovate with a cuneate base 
to orbicular, 4—4 in. long.—I fear that this is only a dry country form of A. laciniata, 
L., with white stems, small leaves, and hardened disk of the bracts, which Boissier 
describes as smooth or tubercled (they are quite smooth in the Indian plant) The 
name seems a singularly inappropriate one. 
_ 3. A.rosea, Linn. ? Sp. Pl. Ed.2,1493 ; green, mealy, branches very many 
diffuse slender ascending, leaves small petioled rhombic-ovate with obtuse 
sides and tips entire or subsinuate, male clusters in short axillary spikes, 
fruiting bracts small broadly triangular-hastate or flabelliform crenate 
thin disk coarsely reticulate or rugose. Schkuhr Handb. t. 350; Fl. Dan. 
1284; Boiss. FI. Orient. iv. 911. ? A. tartarica B virgata, Boiss l. c. 910. 
WESTERN TIBET; banks of Salt Lakes, alt. 12—14,000 ft., in Sassar, Hanle, &c., 
mMSon.— DISTRIB. (of 4. rosea) Westward to the Atlantic. . 
A very slender plant; branches 4-6 in., greenish-white. Leaves }-} in., base 
cuneate. Bracts about + in. broad or long, sometimes sinuate-lobed, subsessile or 
contracted into a hardened pedicel, —An obscure plant. 
»* . . . 
* Perennials, with monecious flowers. 
4. A. repens, Roth Nov. Sp. 377; shrubby, white, stem woody pros- 
trate rooting, leaves small petioled oblong elliptic or suborbicular obtuse, 
male clusters in short branched spikes, fruiting bracts united into a thick 
corky obovate or orbicular turgid pouch with thin free tips contracted at 
the base into a stout cylindric pedicel, disk smooth or rugose. Moq. in 
C. Prodr. iit 2.99. A. Konigii Wall. Cat. 6951. A. eristata, Konig 
vss. A. Belangeri, Boiss. FI. Orient. iv. 913. Obione Belangeri, Mog. 7. c. 
108. O. nummularia, Mog. Enum. Chenopod. 72. O. Keenigii, Mog. l. c. 
109; Wight Ic. t. 1790. 
TÀ Dzocax PENINSULA, Konig; Tuticoreen in Tinnevelly, Wight. 
taites.—DrsTRIB. ? Affghanistan, Persia. li 
Branches woody, 1-2 ft. long, straggling or tufted and short. Leaves i- " 
ong, thick, tip rounded or retuse, base cuneate; petiole very short. Fruiting-bracts 
very variable, 1-3 in. long or broad, sometimes compressed, smooth, at others almost 
Blobose with thick processes on the surface, lips very short crenate. Radicle pointing 
Upwards.—The Affghan plant has smaller bracts, but of the same corky character, an 
with thick cylindric pedicels. 
CEYLON, 
9. A. Stocksii, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. iv. 73; shrubby, white, branches 
Woody prostrate or suberect, leaves small petioled oblong elliptic or subor- 
lcular obtuse, male clusters axillary or in short leafy spikes, ruiting bracts 
Cuneate at the base only orbicular or broadly ovate and suddenly i ^ 
Into a short pedicel disk small, lips broad quite entire thin retien A e., n 
Oo fithii, var. Stocksii, Boiss. FI. Orient. iv. 916. A. repens, 4 Gibs 
4. Pl. Panjab 125. Obione Stocksii, Wight Ic. t. 1789; Dalz. jp Gibs. 
omb. Fl, 919. ` : 
4 ^m E; salt marshes at Kurrachee, Stocks, Vicary. GUZERAT; common, Dele. 
i : . d fruiting- 
Ti and foliage very much like A, repens, but leaves dor iftihi, Phich oppents 
ts very different.—Boissier has made this a variety of 4. G 
