4nabasis.] cxvi. cuENoPopracEm. (J. D. Hooker.) 19 
tary in opposite axils spicate, staminodes ciliolate, fruiting perianth with 3 
conniving wings the posterior largest. Boiss. FI. Orient. iv. 970 (from 
which the above character is taken). 
aie PANJAB; by the Jhelum River, Aitchison. —DISTRIB. Soongaria, Turkestan, 
i,- 
The only speċimen is not in flower; but it precisely accords with the Soongarian 
plant. I have refrained from quoting the synonyms that Boissier (on Bunge’s autho- 
rity) gives, because I suspect some confusion to exist. Anabasis intermedia, Moq. and 
4. subulifolia, Schrenk, must, according to the characters attributed to them, 
differ much from this. Nor do I see why this, all the specimens of which are as 
leaflless as a Salicornia, should be' called phyllophora.—Boissier gives Damascus 
as the locality for his plant, and speaks doubtfully of its identity with the 
: Soongarian. . . 
2. A. setifera, Mog. in Chenop. Enum. 164, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. 
2. 214: a dwarf leafless glaucous pale shrub, stem rough when dry, leaves 
, Short oblong thick fleshy semiterete obtuse with a deciduous  bristle, 
S woolly, flowers crowded in the upper axils, floral leaf oblong or 
rounded, bracts minute linear membranous ciliate, staminodes subquadrate, 
iting perianth 3 in. diam., wings 3-5 obovate or orbicular-cordate hyaline 
not nerved, stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 970. 
The PANJAB ; on the Salt Range, Szetvart.—DisTRIB. Persia, Arabia, Egypt. 
e solitary specimen precisely accords with the A. subulifolia, Schrenk, of Hauss- 
echt’s Iter Orientale from Persia, which differs altogether from Schrenk’s character 
of that species and from A. phyllophora, with which Boissier unites subulifolia. It 
agrees with the characters of A. setifera in everything but having only 3 winged. 
Sepals instead of 5, and. as I find 3 and 4 in some of Bunge’s specimens gathered and 
named by himself, this character is evidently of no value. 
18. HALOCHARIS, Mog. 
" Hispidulous annuals, branches often whorled. Leaves alternate, sessile, 
1 “shy, tipped with rigid hairs. Flowers axillary, solitary, 2-sexual, 2-bracteo- 
m te. Sepals 5, lanceolate, hyaline. Stamens 5, on a fleshy disk ; anthers 
near, cells narrow parallel separate, connective inflated; staminodes 0. 
tricle Included, ovoid or orbicular, compressed, membranous, rugulose; 
stigmas 9, slender. Seed suspended, inverse, lenticular, laterally com- 
Dressed, testa membranous, albumen 0; embryo plano-spiral.—Species 5, 
ersia, Afghanistan and Central Asia. 
hi l. H. violacea, Bunge Anabas. Revis. 63, t. 1, f. 3; a small sparsely 
npa prostrate diffusely branched annual, hairs very long, leaves inear 
spi quetrous obtuse floral oblong equalling or exceeding the MEME 
m es | Subcapitate, perianth squarrosely hispid with very long airs, 
nnective produced into an obovoid violet appendage longer and broader 
"* Canther-cells. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 975. " 
ESTERN PANJAB ANGE, alt. 2000 ft., and. PESHAWUR 
Varr, common, Stewart. Diener Afehelttan Beluchistan, S.E. Pana 
att ached from the base; branches slender, 3-6 in., tips ascending. eaves 
red, 2-4 in, Flowers minute, concealed by the long bristles. 
ANE sul j iii, 9. 201, i» part; 
u. bhurea, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xii, 2. 201, part; 
obi hispid with long bristles, leaves linear subtrigonous obtuse fore 
cluste about equalling the Janceolate hirsute bracteoles, flowers in capi 
Conn 75 Which are s icate on terminal short branches, outer sepals Mare 
“stive produc into a sessile elongate ellipsoid yellow ener age 
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