; When the 
Salsola.] CXVII. CHENOPODIACEEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 17 
16. SALSOLA, Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs; branches not jointed. Leaves usually alternate, sessile, 
often short and pungent. Flowers small, solitary or fascicled, axillary, 2- 
sexual, 2-bracteolate. Sepals 4-5, concave, fruiting accrescent usually 
orizontally and broadly winged above the middle, completely embracing 
the utricle. Stamens 5 or fewer, usually hypogynous. Uf¢ricle ovoid or 
orbicular, fleshy or membranous; stigmas 2-3, subulate or linear. Seed 
Usually horizontal, testa membranous, albumen 0; embryo spiral.—Species 
40, Europe, N. and S. Africa, Temp. Asia, Australia, N. America. 
* Annual spinescent herbs. Leaves ovate-subulate or linear. 
DL 
l. S. Kali, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 954; pubescent, scabrid or 
glabrous, diffusely branched from the base, branches stout rigid, leaves 
Short subulate-lanceolate from a j-amplexicaul base thick rigid pungent, 
flowérs 1-3 together axillary or subspicate, bracts and sepals subequal 
Pungent, fruiting perianth ‘cartilaginous base rounded, wings obovate 
. acular or reniform scarious sometimes obsolete. Mog. in DC. Prodr, | 
mu. 2.187, ? S, Jacquemontii, Mog. 1. c. 188. 
Nonru-WzsrERN PawJan; Peshawur, Stewart. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 
2-14,000 ft, Thomson, &c.—DisrRis. Westward to the Atlantic, N. Asia, N. 
| and S, Africa, Australia, N. America. 
, Usually glaucous ; stem 6-18 in. rarely erect, and branches soft and pithy within, 
"ped green and white. Leaves 3-1} in. spreading and recurved. Fruiting- 
Mu i- in. diam., transparent, often rose-coloured. .Seed adherent to the 
ricle, 
2. L. collina, C. A. Mey. in Led. Fl. Alt. i. 393; erect or decum- 
bent, Simple or branched, protean in habit and foliage, glabrous or hispid, 
eaves ovate rigid or broadly subulate or linear and flaccid tip pungent base 
"amplexicau], floral similar much longer than the bracts, flowers 1-3 axillary, 
perianth membranous, sepals lanceolate equal or unequal, fruiting dimorphic, 
either little changed and adnate below to and enclosed within the hardened 
and thickened bases of the floral leaf, bracts and bractooes, or vel dt 
e. bracts, &c. unchanged and the sepals becoming broadly equa 
pigually winged. Mog. in DC. Prodr. xii. 2.188; Pall. IIl. PI. 34, € 96; 
eb. 
L Ross. iii. 800. 
» Kuyawvr, Herb. Royle. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 12-15,000 ft., common, Thomson, 
larke,— Dxergrg, S. Russia, Siberia, Soongaria. . ‘able i 
hap; 12086 Puzzling plant, usually smaller in ali its parts than L. Kali, so variable in 
abit that it is difficult to believe that the various Tibetan forms are referable to 
one species, The originally described form, well figured by Pallas, has diffuse stiff 
ranches uniformly clothed throughout with imbricating ovate-lanceolate appressed 
of r aceous green leaves ł—4 in. long, with white margins and 1-2 flowers in the axils 
i mh, with ovate erect pungent bract and bracteole; its exact counterpart coon 
caribe. The greatest contrast to this is a strict erect simple or branched ions, i 
fon ered distant spreading cylindric or filiform flaccid leaves an inch long, and axi ary 
wers sunk in the hardened nut-like connate bases of the leaf bracts and bracteoles. 
er form is 6-14 in. high, erect, with green striped stout stem and branches, 
3 ;.gi Spreading or recurved or flexuous spinescent linear or lanceolate eaves 
+t 1n. long. Another has stout branches spreading on the ground, with filiform leaves . 
d 1n. long, Another form has dense squarrose tufts of branches beset closely eem 
as the poa te recurved imbricating leaves 4-1 in. long. The perianth is as n j 
© habit and foliage : when the perianth becomes winged, it is rarely regular: adt 
VOR 9f the bracts, &c., become indurated round the flower, - sepals y 
NM. Y, 
