A«yris.] CXVII. CHENOPODIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 9 
pale-yellowish or reddish-brown when dry; nerves faint; petiole short, slender. 
4. hybrida is, I think, only the longer branched state of 4. amaranthoides. 
ar. humifusa, Mog. l. c.; very small, procumbent.— Western Tibet, Thomson, 
Clarke. Topedunga (with Microgynecium), Strachey 5 Winterbottom.—1 suspect 
‘that the A. prostrata does not differ from this. 
There isa fragment of an Axyris gathered in Lahul by the Rev. H. Jaeschke, and 
described as a garden weed, which has ovate obtuse leaves 1 in. long, on petioles of 
the same length. 
8. MICROGYNESCIUM, Hook. f., Gen. Plant. iii. 56. 
A small diffuse prostrate puberulous or glabrous annual. Leaves alter- 
nate, petioled, ovate, entire. Flowers monecious, very minute, clustered, 
den amongst the leaves. Mare fl.ebracteate. Perianth hyaline, 5-lobed. 
Stamens 1-4, filaments very long. Fem. fl. 2-bracteate, solitary or crowded, 
bracts unchanged in fruit. Perianth 0. Utricle hyaline, obliquely ovoid, 
turgid, compressed, covered with scattered processes, and 1-2-auricled at the 
top; stigmas capillary. Seed erect, testa coriaceous, albumen granular; 
embryo horseshoe-shaped. i 
M. tibeticum, Hook. JF. L c. 
WESTERNS TIBET; Topedunga, north of Kumaon, Strachey § Winterbottom. 
SIKKIM; at Tungu, alt. 12-14,000 ft., J. D. H. i 
Stem branched from the base, branches 1-2 in., slender. Leaves i-i in., green, 
rather fleshy, nerves indistinct ; petiole half as long. Flowers microscopic.—A very 
Conspicuous plant. 
9. CORISPERMUM, Linn. 
Annual stiff herbs. Leaves alternate, rigid, l-nerved, narrow, floral 
margined with white, hiding the short spikes. Flowers 2-sexual, ebracteo- 
ate. Sepals 1-3, unequal, scarious. Stamens 1-5, unequal. Utricle 
€xserted, orbicular or oblong, compressed, hardened, margined or winged; 
stigmas subulate, recurved. Seed erect, adherent to the pericarp, testa 
coriaceous, albumen floury : embryo annular.—Species 8, S. Europe, N. 
and W. Asia, China, N.W. America. 
C. hyssopifolium, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 930; glabrous or 
Softly hairy, diffusely branched from the base, leaves Jinear or narrowly 
near orate obtuse, spikes axillary and termina? e or lax, practs 
th p OS i i Mog. i . Prodr. xiii. 2. ; 
Sibth, FL Cree tL. or margin white. Mog. in 
Cam ESTERN TIBET; alt. 10-15,000 ft., Falconer, Thomson.—DisTRIB. S. France, 
10. CHENOLEA, Thunb. 
Tomentose silky or vi erbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, narrow, 
quire. owers inate, axillary, 2-sexual and female, immersed in wool, 
*bracteate. Perianth with 5 incurved lobes, at length closing over the 
utricle, with the lobes usually tubercled or spinous at the back. Stamens 5. 
sti ricte membranous, included in the crustaceous or coriaceous perianth ; 
igmas 2-3, capillary. Seed orbicular, horizontal, testa thin, albumen 
