18 CXVII. CHENOPODIACEX, (J. D. Hooker.) | Salsola: 
become winged ; their indurated bases vary from j-1 in. long, are pale and smooth, 
rounded and often gibbous, or bigibbous below; they are very thick and woody ; they 
occur on the same plant with the normal fruiting-bracts. Ledebour notices a similar 
condition of S. Kali as lusus nodiflora (Fl. Ross. iii. 799). He regards collina as a 
species between S. Kali & tamariscinum, differing from Kali in the bracts being never 
rigidly spinescent, and the fruiting perianth being always membranous below, and 
from both in the minute perianth wings: these distinctions altogether break down in 
Tibetan and other examples of S. colina. 
** Unarmed shrubs. Leaves minute subglobose. 
3. S. foetida, Del. Fl. ZEgypt. 57; a stout hoary pale excessively 
branched shrub with stout stem and filiform crowded branchlets clothed 
with uniformly minute subglobose fleshy leaves, floral leaves imbricate . 
rather longer, forming short spikes, bracteoles like the leaves, fruiting 
perianth minute (jj in. diam.) silvery-white, wings symmetrical rounded 
margins often overlapping, stigmas 2 recurved. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 961. 
S. Moorcroftiana, Wall. Cat. 6947 (and misspelt S. Marosteum by Mog. in 
DC. Prodr. xiii. 2.191). S. indica, Herb. Royle. S. spinescens, Wight Ic. 
t. 1795. Caroxylon foetidum, Mog. in l. c. 178. 
PANJAB PLAINS, UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN, from Delhi, Moorcroft, westwards, 
Royle, Edgeworth, &e. SCINDE, Stocks.—DIsTRIB. Beluchistan, Persia, Arabia, N. 
Africa 
A large shrnb, stinking of rotten fish (in Egypt, not hitherto observed in India), 
forming dense masses of filiform twigs and minute leaves, amongst which the little 
perianths shine like silver stars.— The branchlets often bear globose villous galls, 
i-1 in. diam., beset witb linear leaves, and caused by insect-puncture. 
4. S. verrucosa, M. Bieb. in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Mosg. i. 141; 
a stout hoary shrub or tree with the habit and leaves of S. fetida, but 
flowers in dense clusters and spikes, and fruiting perianth 7-4 in. diam. 
dark brown. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 961; Mog. in DC. Prodr. xii. 2. 180. 
S. dendroides, Pall. II]. Pl. t. 14 (with the leaves too thick, according to 
Boiss.). S. georgica, Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 814. 
NoRTH-WESTERN PANJAB; lower hills and the Peshawur Valley, Stewart. 
DISTRIB. Siberia, Persia, Armenia, the Caucasus, S. Russia. 
Boissier says that this differs from S. fætida in the lower leaves being filiform, 
1-1} lines long, and the others he describes as ‘‘ 1-terete filiform slender; but this * 
does not at all agree with any of the numerous specimens in Herb. Kew, except one 
of a var. glabrescens (Caucasus, Hohenacker). Some specimens have smaller and 
white fruiting-perianth, approaching those of S. fwtida.—This plant is (like S. fætida) 
infested with galls, ° 
17. ANABASIS, Linn. 
Perennial herbs or shrubs, branches jointed. Leaves opposite, fleshy 
or obsolete. Flowers small, solitary or clustered, axillary, 2-sexual, female 
minutely 2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, scarious, fruiting winged or not. Stamens 
5, on a short disk, alternating with 5 staminodes. Utricle included or 
exserted, subglobose, dorsally compressed, dry or fleshy; style short, 
stigmas 2 subulate. Seed erect, orbicular, compressed, testa membranous 
or coriaceous, albumen 0; embryo spiral.— Species 15, S. Europe, N. Africa, 
W. and Central Asia, 
l. A. phyllophora, Kar. 4 Kir. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosq. 1840; a 
dwarf glabrous pale leafless shrub, stems many erect from a woody stock, 
joints long terminating in two triangular acute teeth (leaves), flowers soli- 
