Salicornia. } CXVII. CHENOPODIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 13 
à Stem woody, 12-18 in., thick at the base, much branched; branches about i-l in. 
diam.; lobes of joints with (when dry) membranous margins. Flowers 3-nate. 
Stamenl.  Utricle ovoid, subacute, styles distinct. Testa thinly coriaceous; embryo 
hooked, both ends pointing downwards.—Moquin 'erroneously cites Nepal as a 
habitat, and suggests its not being distinct from S. herbacea, which it does not 
resemble. Roxburgh describes the perianths as flask-like, fleshy, with a longitudinal 
slit for the exsertion of stamens and styles, and as adhering together firmly and to the 
Joints till the seed is ripe. 
XIV. SUZEDA, Forsk. 
_Herbs or shrubs. Leaves fleshy, terete, rarely flattish. Flowers minute, 
rank usually 2-sexual, bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Perianth short, 
9-lob or-partite; lobes or segments equal or unequal, simple or gibbous 
orsubwinged. Stamens 5, short. Utricle included, membranous or spongy ; 
stigmas 2-5, minute, subulate, recurved. Seed erect, oblique or horizontal, 
testa crustaceous or coriaceous, albumen scanty or 0; embryo plano-spiral. 
—Species about 40, in saline shores and deserts. 
Many annual Species have dimorphic flowers; viz. summer ones with albuminous 
seeds and crustaceous testa, and autumnal ones with larger almost exálbuminous seeds 
and a membranous testa. I am far from sure that I have correctly determined the 
names and Synonymy of the Indian species. 
* Perennials. Styles usually 3-5, rarely 2. 
l. S. fruticosa, Forsk. FI. Æg. Arab. 70; suberect or decumbent, 
branches erect or divaricate, leaves $-terete linear or ellipsoid obtuse floral 
Very short, spikes slender leafy, flowers axillary solitary or 2-3-nate, 2- 
sexual, fruiting perianth subglobose segments obtuse incurved, styles 3 
short, seed vertical or horizontal, testa black shining. Boiss. F7. Orient. iv. 
; Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. Salsola fruticosa, Linn.; Grah. Cat. 
Bomb. Pl. 17; Engl. Bot. t. 635; Cav. Ie. t. 285; Sibth. Fl. Grac. t. 255. 
S. indica, Wall. Cat. 6946 C. S. Lana, Edgew. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 
(1840) 286; Mog. 7. c. 190. 
NonrH-Wrsr Ixpra ; from Delhi, and throughout the Panjab, westward to the 
ates, common in the plains.—Disrris. Westward to the Atlantic, Africa and 
erica, 
Stem and branches usually slender. Leaves very variable, }-} in. long.—I have 
seen DO specimen of Edgeworth’s Salsola Lana, which I assume from his description 
and locality to be J. fruticosa. Bunge, according to Boissier (Fl. Or. iv. 950, 
under Haloxylon recurvum) refers it to Schoberia indica. 
l 2. S. monoica, Forsk. FI. Æg. Arab. 70 ; shrubby, branches suberect, 
eaves linear flattish obtuse, spikes leafy panicled, flowers axillary 2-3-nate 
polygamous, bracts minute scarious entire, fruiting perianth obovate-oblong 
Re obtuse incurved, styles 2-5 short, seed vertical, testa black shining. 
g ss. FU. Orient. iv. 940 ; Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2.156; Wight Ic. t. 1792. 
: nudiflora, Thwaites Enum. 246. 
SOUTH Deccan ; on the sea coast at TINNEVELLY, and Tuticorin, Wight. CEYLON, 
"Ta &c.—DISTRIB, Arabia, Trop. Africa. i s difficul 
distin a in great doubt about this Indian plant, which in a dry state is difficult to 
g anguish from S. fruticosa and vermiculata. Boissier, l. c. 940, says that Thwaites 
+ indica is S. monoica, but Thwaites quotes Wight Ic. t. 1796, which has densely 
fur ded flowers (not 2-3 together as Boissier describes). Boissier (under S. f’ rend ) 
eg aped Says that all the specimens he has seen of S. indica, Willd., are referable 
S. fruticosa or monoica. The plant I have here called monoica is Wight's t. 1792 ; 
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