14 OXVIL CHENOPODIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Suceda. 
it has a longer fruiting-perianth than S. fruticosa, which is very shortly lobed, and - 
the bracts are smaller and more entire; it is also more erect. 
3. S. nudiflora, Mog. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. xxiii. 316, and in DC. Prodr. 
xiii. 2. 155 ; stem woody diffusely branched, leaves semiterete obtuse ellipsoid 
or the lower linear or obovate-oblong, bracts hyaline toothed often forming 
ersistent stellate tufts, flowers crowded in dense globose clusters forming 
leafless spikes polygamous, fruiting perianth obovoid lobes short, styles 3, 
seed erect, testa crustaceous black. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 213. | S. indica, 
Mog. l.c.; Wight Ic. t. 1796; Thwaites Enum. 246; Dalz. & Gibs. l.c. ; 
Wall. Cat. 6946 A. Salsola nudiflora, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 1313; Roxb, FT. 
Ind. ii. 60; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 270, S. fruticosa? Wall. Cat. 6944. S. 
elata, Wight in Wall. Cat. l.c. Chenopodium prostratum, Roxb. mss. 
On the sea coast; BENGAL, BOMBAY, the Deccan and CEYLON. 
I retain this species with much hesitation, suspecting that it is a form of S. 
monoica, Forsk., or S. vermiculata, Forsk. It is evidently a common coast plant ; 
and there is a good figure of it in Roxburgh's Icones, with the mss. name of Cheno- 
podium prostratum, by which it is by inadvertence alluded to (under S. indica) in 
Roxburgh's Flora (ii. 62). The stellate tuft of toothed bracts left at the axils of 
leaves after the fruiting perianths have fallen away, is often a very marked character, 
as are the leafless spikes of confluent globose many-fid. clusters. 
** Annuals. Styles 2. 
4. S. maritima, Dumort. Fl. Belg. 22; erect, glaucous green, glaorous, 
branched usually from the base, leaves linear or filiform semiterete floral 
very small, clusters of flowers minute in very slender spikes, fruiting perianth 
depressed lobes rounded covering the utricle, styles long slender, seed usually 
horizontal. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 941; Trimen in Journ, Bot. xxiii. (1885) 
173. S. nudiflora, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 155. Chenopodium mariti- 
mum, Linn.; Engl. Bot. t. 633; Fl. Dan. t. 489. Schoberia maritima, C. A. 
Mey. in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. 400. Chenopodina maritima, Mog. l. c. 161. C. 
indica, Wight l. c. t. 1793. Salsola salsa, Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. 44, t. 83. 
S. indica, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1317, ex Roxb. FL. Ind. ti. 62; Wall. Cat. 6946F ; 
Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 170. S. nudiflora, Wall. Cat. 6945. S. sativa, 
Wight in Wall. Cat. l. c. 
UPPER GaxGETIC Prarns; Delhi, Clarke. Sea coast of BENGAL, BOMBAY, the 
Deccan and CEYLON.—DISTRIB. Siam, Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia, N. 
America, 
This appears to be the European plant, though apparently sometimes becoming 
woody, if not shrubby. Roxburgh indeed describes it as a perennial, but his figure is 
that of an annual. Graham states that it is universally eaten and an essential article 
of food during famines. Wallich’s (not Willdenou's) Salsola nudiflora is a common 
state with the floral leaves shorter than the clusters, Trimen (l.c.) describes as an 
erect variety of S. maritima, a plant with slender ascending branches and very short 
leafy bracts, which is found in salt pans in Ceylon with S. nudiflora & indica, adding 
that it is not the S. indica of Wight Ic. t. 1793. I have no material for ascertaining 
what it is. 
5. S. corniculata, Hook. f. in Gen. PL iii. 67 ; slender, small, diffusely 
branched from the base, leaves j-1 in. oblong or linear-oblong obtuse floral 
ovate, flowers very minute 2-3-nate axillary unisexual?, perianth turbinate 
fleshy lobes gibbous behind or two produced into rounded vertical wings, 
utricle orbicular membranous adherent to the perianth, seed vertical or 
horizontal not or hardly beaked some subglobose with thinly coriaceous pale 
testa, others lenticular with black crustaceous testa. Schoberia corniculata, 
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