Kochia.]: CXVII. CHENOPODIACE&. (J.D. Hooker.) 11 
Rootstock as thick as the thumb ; branches very numerous, 6-10 in., as well as 
the leaves and flowers densely fulvous-villous. Leaves i-i in., nerveless. Spikes 
slender, Fruiting-calyz 4-3 in. diam., margins of adjacent wings approximate. 
** Annuals (always ?). 
2. K. odontoptera, Schrenk in Bull. Acad. Petersb. i. 361 (2848) ; 
annual, diffusely branched from the base, densely tomentose, leaves small 
short flat linear acute, clusters in long or short simple or branched leafy 
spikes, wings of fruiting perianth cuneate or flabellate scarious strongly 
nerved crenate-lobed about equalling the diameter of the disk. Boiss. FÌ. 
Orient. iv. 924, K. stellaris, Belang. Voy. Or. Ic. ined. K. odontoptera & 
K. stellaris, Mog. Enum. Chenopod. 93, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 139. 
Panderia pilosa, Herb. Ind. Or. H. J. & T. in part. 
P WESTERN TIBET, alt. 8-12,000 ft., Thomson.—DISTRIB. Affghanistan, Turkestan, 
ersia, 
Root sometimes as thick as the finger and possibly perennial; branches long or 
short, slender; pubescence closer and paler than in K. prostrata ; leaves much shorter, 
in. long; wings of fruiting perianth narrower, contracted at the base, the 
margins of adjacent ones distant.—I follow Boissier in identifying this with Schrenk's 
- odontoptera., 
. 9. K. scoparia, Schrad. Neue. Journ. 1809, 85; annual, glabrous 
"d Pubescent, strict, erect, leaves green linear-lanceolate acute, clusters in 
lea y panicled spikes, wings of the fruiting perianth short semicircular 
Scarious nerved entire shorter than the diameter of the disk. Boiss. FT. 
Orient. iv. 925; Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 130. Chenopodium scoparia, 
inn, 
Norru-West INDIA, Royle, Jacquemont.—DisrmrIB. N. and Central Asia to 
3pan and westward to Spain. 
A tall herb, 3-5 ft.; branches erect and stem white smooth, usually glabrous, the 
Ultimate twigs pilose or villous. Leaves 1-1} in., midrib distinct. Fruiting-perianth 
Tearibed as being very variable—The characters given above apply to the only 
ndian specimen I have seen; it is Royle’s, and without particular locality ; others 
ve the wings reduced to a short acute tubercle, or are quite simple. 
4K. indica, Wight Ic. t. 1791; annual? softly villous, diffusely 
branched from the base, branchlets divaricate long, leaves small elliptie or 
Inear-oblong acute, wings of fruiting perianth short broadly triangular- 
kate obtuse thick nerveless much shorter than the diameter of the disk. 
mifithii, Bunge in Boiss. Fl. Orient. xiii. 2.924. Panderia pilosa, Herb. 
nd, Or. H. f. a T. in part. 
sa] Nortu-Wesr INDIA, from Delhi to the Indus, common. DECCAN PENINSULA 
t soils at Coimbatore, Wight,— DISTRIB. Afighanistan. NEN ; 
ranches of this closely resemble long ones of K. prostrata in hairiness, &c., a 
t fre jit 1$ much more straggling, the plant is apparently annual, and the winga oí 
Nel Fuiting perianth are very different. Wight states that the flowers are qune me 
fe ey and I think it probable that fertile males are on different, plants fro 
V or hermaphrodite. Boissier observed that Wight’s plant is se sane As 
tri thii, but was unaware that Wight had published it. The Panjab plant dis- 
for buted under * Herb. Ind. Or. H. £, & T." as K. scoparia, is, I think, rather referable 
. indica. P oi 
XII. ARTHROCNEMUM, Moq. 
Fleshy leafless joi inute, 2-sexual, 2-3 
ointed shrubs or herbs. Flowers minute, 
together in the axils of the cine of sessile cone-like spikes, 2-bracteate. 
