16 CXVII. CHENOPODIACEEZ. (J. D. Hooker) [Halozylon. 
strict or recurved branches a foot long or less, ending in strict spikes 2-6 in. long; 
joints of stem 1-2 in. apart, of spikes 4 in. or less. Sepals obtuse; fruiting perianth 
lin. diam. Style elongate. Staminodes rounded.—The Scinde specimens have more 
fleshy and obtuse leaves; most of the Coimbatore and all the Panjab ones are very 
robust with strict branches; the Burmese ones and one of the Coimbatore are much 
more slender with recurved branches. In the “Genera Plantarum’ I proposed the name 
S. Stocksii for the Scinde specimens, regarding them as distinct from the Burmese by 
their much stouter habit and thicker obtuse leaves, but more copious specimens from 
all the localities have convinced me that all are forms of one variable plant.  Boissier 
ives Beluchistan as the locality for Stocks's specimens, but those iu the Kew aud 
ight's Herbaria are from Scinde. 
2. H. Thomsoni, Bunge in Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 950; a dwarf 
hoary pale puberulous much-branched shrub, leaves 4-4 in. linear terete 
obtuse floral shorter and small rounded bracteoles villous in the axils, 
flowers often densely crowded, fruiting sepals with very short rounded tips 
and orbicular or subreniform scarious entire wings, stigmas 2 linear-oblong. 
H. Griffithii ?, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. (not of Boissier). 
WESTERN TisET; alt. 10-14,000 ft., Falconer, Thomson. Shigar Valley, alt. 
7-8000 ft., Clarke, Bellew. 
Rootstock short, stout, woody, sending up many branches 4-10 in. high; branches 
woody below, rather- slender, glaucous; branchlets divaricate, rather slender, joints 
1 in. or less. Flowers 2-3-nate or in globose clusters which are broader than the 
floral leaves. Perianth 4, in. long in flower, in fruit 3 in. wings brown. Ovary 
laxly woolly.— Very near C. Griffithii, but the leaves are always developed, and there 
are only 2 stigmas. 
Var. gracillima; 12-18 in. high, extremely slender, paniculately branched, 
flowers more distant subsolitary.—Iskardo, alt. 8000 ft., Clarke, In flower only.— 
Habit much more slender, but the flowers are identical, 
** Leaves reduced to the dilated tips of the joints. 
3. H. salicornicum, Bunge in Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 949; a low erect 
strict pale almost leaffess shrub, joints produced into two very shorttriangular 
points woolly within, spikes long erect, bracteoles ovate axils woolly, fruiting 
sepals with very short obtuse tips and flabelliform scarious white crenate 
wings, stigmas subclavate. Caroxylon salicornicum, Mog. in DC. Prodr. 
xiii. 2. 174. 
SCINDE ; Stocks (in Herb. Dalzell).—DisTRIs. Beluchistan, Affghanistan. 
Stem woody, 1-2 ft. high ; branches erect or ascending, terete; joints of stem 
i in., of branches about 4 in., of spikes shorter. Fruiting-perianth about } in. diam., 
tips of sepals with membranous margins, wings often irregularly developed.— Possibly 
the specimen in Dalzell's Herbarium is from Beluchistan, though marked Scinde ; it is 
in flower only. 
4. H. multiflorum, Bunge in Boiss. Fl. Orient. ix. 949; a low erect 
pale much-branched almost leaflless shrub, joints produced into two very 
short rounded tips, spikes short, bracteoles orbicular coneave, sepals very 
short obtuse, fruiting sepals with very short obtuse tips and orbicular 
cordate or flabellate scarious wings, stigmas lanceolate. Anabasis multi- 
tora, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 212. . 
NonTH-WresrERN PANJAP PLAINS, and the Sarr RaNGz, ascending to 2000 ft., 
Stewart. —DisTRIB. Atfghanistan. 
Closely allied to H. salicornicum, but much lower, 4-6 in. high, with a very stout 
woody stem and almost fascicled branches ; the leaves and bracteoles are much broader, 
not woolly, the spikes shorter, and fruiting perianth lurger, 4 in. diam. 
