10 CXVII. CHENOPODIACEX. (J. D. Hooker) [Chenolea. 
scanty; embryo annular.—Species 20, S. Europe, N. Africa, Temp. Asia, 
Australia, with one N. American and one S. African. 
1. C. divaricata, Hook. f.; annual, erect, excessively branched from 
the base and upwards, softly rufous villous, leaves linear obtuse, fruiting 
perianth with 5 acute dorsal straight spines about as long as the diameter 
of the disk. Echinopsilon divaricatus, Kar. & Kiril. in Bull. Soc. Hist. 
Nat. Mosq. 736. E. tibeticus, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & Thoms. 
WESTERN TIBET; alt. 11-14,000 ft., Thomson, &c.—DisTRiB. Soongaria, W. 
China. 
Whole plant clothed with long soft spreading hairs, Stem 4-15 in., stout, straight 
in well-developed specimens, sometimes as thick as a goose-quill, very leafy, striped 
green and white; branches innumerable, forming a pyramidal mass. Leaves }-1} in. 
long, soft, mottled green and white (when freed of hairs). Clusters of flowers axillary. 
Perianth minute; sepals short, villous. Stamens as long as the sepals. Utricle 
depressed ; styles 2, filiform. 
2. ©. ? sedoides, Hook. f.; annual, tall, slender, erect, hoary-tomen- 
tose or glabrate, branches ascending very slender, leaves fleshy semiterete 
green some filiform others oblong and minute glabrous or the .upper villous, 
clusters 2-3-fld. in long slender spikes shorter than the floral leaves, perianth 
villous, fruiting with conical spines equalling the diameter of the disk or 
shorter often unequal, Kochia sedoides, Schrad. Neue. Journ. 1809, 86; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 926. Echinopsilon sedoides, Mog. in Ann. Se. Nat. 
Ser. 2. 127, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 2. 136. Salsola sedoides, Pall. Voy. 
280, t. 41, f. 2. S. cinerea, Waldst. & Kit. Pl. Hung. ii. 110, t. 106. 
Sueda sedifolia, Pall. Illust. t. 32, 33, 34. 
ScINDE, Stocks.—DISTRIB. Siberia, Soongaria, Caucasus to Bulgaria. 
The specimens are flowerless, but seem to belong to this species. Stem white. 
Leaves y- in., often gibbous at the base below, then at the tips of the branches 
longer and villous with tawny hairs, but for which the plant might be taken for a 
ueda, 
11. KOCHIA, Roth. 
Villous or pubescent rarely glabrous undershrubs or herbs. Leaves 
alternate, sessile, narrow, entire. Flowers minute, 2-sexual and female, 
axillary, ebracteate. Perianth subglobose, lobes 5 incurved, fruiting closing 
over the utricle coriaceous girt by 5 free or confluent horizontal wings. 
Stamens 5; anthers large, exserted. Utricle depressed, membranous; style 
slender, stigmas 2-3 capillary. Seed orbicular, horizontal, testa membra- 
nous, albumen scanty; embryo annular.—Species 20, S. Europe, Temp. 
Asia, N. and S. Africa, Australia, N.W. America. 
* Perennials. 
1. K. prostrata, Schrad. Neue. Journ. 1809, 85; a villously pubes- 
cent low undershrub with a very stout woody rootstock, branches slender 
erect or spreading, leaves flat linear subacute, clusters in long leafy spikes, 
wings of fruiting perianth subquadrate hard and searious strongly nerved 
crenate about equalling the diameter of the disk. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 
923; Mog. in DC. Prodr. xii. 2. 132. Salsola prostrata, Linn.; Jacq. 
fL ys t. 294. Chenopodium Augustanum, All. Fi. Pedem. ii. 198, 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; in the dry regions of Kunawur and Zanskar; and in 
WESTERN TinzT, alt. 10-14,000 ft., Thomson, &c.—DistRis. Westwards to Spain 
nud N. Africa, Siberia, Central Asia. 
