Sueda.] CXVII. CHENOPODIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 15 
C A. Mey. in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. 399, and Ic, Fl. Ross. t. 195; Mog. in DC. . 
Prodr. xiii. 2. 166. 
WESTERN TIBET; Parang Valley and Hanle Plains, alt. 14-15,000 ft., Thomson.— 
DISTRIB. Soongaria, Siberia, . . 
Glaucous; branches 4-8 in., spreading and ascending, white. Leaves scattered 
or erowded, pale when dry. Bracts microscopic, jagged. Flowers extremely 
aute; perianth fleshy but thin.— The black seeds occur indiscriminately amongst 
the pale. 
6. S. microsperma, Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 785; diffusely branched 
from the base, leaves 3—3 in. linear-oblong obtuse. flattish floral oblong, 
flowers very minute 2—5-nate axillary 2-sexual, perianth subglobose lobes 
equal rounded obscurely tubercled in fruit, utricle orbicular membranous 
adherent to the perianth, seed vertical or horizontal orbicular with a long 
ak, testa thinly coriaceous pale. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 943. Schoberia 
microsperma, C. A. Mey. in Eichw. Pl. Casp. Cauc. 14, t. 13. Chenopodina 
prostrata & parviflora, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 163, 165. C. pygmæa, 
Mog. ? Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T 
WESTERN TIBET; banks of the Indus, and of Lake Thogji Chumo, alt. 
13-15,500 ft., Thomson ; Lake Pangong, H. Sirachey.—DISTRIB. Siberia, Lake Aral, 
ngaria, 
i This appears to me to be very near S. corniculata, having the same structure and 
Minute size of perianth seed, &c., but the perianth is globose without the gibbosities 
of that Plant, and the seed has the radicular end produced into a long beak. 
". microsperma is described as having a black shining testa, which I do not find in 
either the Tibetan or Soongarian specimens, and it is reasonable to suppose that the 
Seeds are dimorphic in this as in S, corniculata. . 
15. HALOXYLON, Bunge. 
, Shrubs or small trees with opposite jointed branches. Leaves opposite, 
triangular and very short, or longer and terete. Flowers small solitary or 
Spicate, axillary, 2-sexual, 2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, concave, a^crescent and 
onzontally winged. Stamens 5 or fewer, on the margin or base of i 
cupular disk with alternating rounded or square staminodes. Utricle 
globose or depressed, enclosed in the perianth; stigma 2-lobed or stigmas 
recurved. Seed horizontal, testa membranous, albumen 0; embryo 
Plano-spiral.— Species 8-10, S. Europe, W. and Central Asia, Indian. 
This genus might be united to .4nabasis, differing only in the position of 
the seed, . 
7 Leaves distinct. 
l. H. recury unge in Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 949 ; tall, glabrous, 
Pruinose, dark brown,’ ie lately branched, branches divaricate, leaves 
P Mm. trigonous or semiterete ovate-subulate or ellipsoid cbtuse or aon ^ 
lone about equalling the axillary flowers, stigma obtuse or obecne Yu 
Obed, fruiting sepals with large erect ovate obtuse lips and slag ar er M 
carious wings. H.recurvum & H. Stocksii, Hook. f. in Gen. Pl. iii, us 
Caroxylon recurvum, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2.175. C. indicum, Si bs 
nd t. 1794, Salsola Stocksii, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 2. iv. 75. S. Lana, Stoc 
* 8. recurva, Wall. Cat. 6943. | ding to 3600 Ac, DN 
e Wrs 1 Y Sart RANGE, ascending to n Exc 
porth, Stewart. Scene B Prans ld DECCAN PENINSULA; Coimbatore, Wight. 
"A A5 banks of the Irawaddi, Wallioh—Distar. Afghanistan, Yunan. He 
straggling bush, blackish when dry, several feet high with long spreading 
