Chenopodium.] Cv. CHENOPODIACE® (BAKER AND CLARKE). 81 
3 by }-1 in., narrowed at both ends, remotely and shallowly toothed or 
sinuate ; midrib pubescent and with scattered stalked glands beneath ; 
surface obscurely verrucose and very sparingly glandular beneath. 
Inflorescence and flowers as of C. schraderianum, Roem. et Sch. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 
8926 ! 
This plant, a fine example, is issued by Engler as C. fotidum, Schrader; the 
leaves are very unlike, 
2, ATRIPLEX, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Pl. iii, 53. 
Flowers small, 1-sexual. Perianth of male of 5 lobes united below, 
without bracteoles. Stamens 5,or 4-3. Female flower without perianth, 
enclosed between 2 erect ovate or triangular bracteoles. Ovary ovoid, 
free, with one ovule on a basal stalk, oblique; style cylindric, with 
usually 2 branches. Capsule dry, ovoid, flattened, enclosed between the 
2 erect (often enlarged thickened or hardened) bracteoles; pericarp 
thin, membranous. Seed erect; embryo forming one circle round the 
enclosed albumen.—Herbs or undershrubs, mealy, scaly or closely 
tomentose. Leaves alternate, undivided; blade flat, often toothed or 
lobed. Flowers numerous, clustered, in cymes running into terminal 
Spikes and panicles. Branches (and not rarely plants) carrying flowers 
all of one sex. 
Species 120; throughout the world, less numerous in the tropics, 
*Leaves green or mealy, with many teeth  . - 1, A. hastata, 
**Leaves closely minutely white-tomentose, without 
meal or scales. 
Leaves narrowed at the base into the petiole. 
Fruit bracteoles flat, separate nearly to the 
base : . . E : . . 2. A, Halimus, 
Fruit bracteoles united at the base, woody, 
prickly. ° 3. A, amboensis. 
Leaves (towards middle of stem) cordate-auricled 
at the base . ° ° ’ ° . - 4. A. farinosa, 
1. A. hastata, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i, 1053, and ed. ii. 1494. Stem 
herbaceous, erect, 2 ft. high. Leaves alternate, petioled; blade 2-3 
in. long, ovate, acute, toothed, base hastate, sparingly mealy or glabrate. 
Spikes running into terminal panicles, sometimes dense; bracteoles 
$ in. long, deltoid-triangular, united only at the base, smooth or sparsely 
tuberculate on the back, toothed on the margin. Fruit erect, flattened 
between the two bracteoles; pericarp thin.—Reichb. Pl. Crit. i. 18, 
t. 16; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 94; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 909; 
Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. ©. 171; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 
1A, 66; W.D. J. Koch, Syn, Fl. Deutsch, ed. 3, iii. 2215. 
Mozamb, Dist. German East Africa: “ Great Lakes,”’ ex Eagler, 
Abundant in Europe; found in nearly all temperate and warm-temperate 
climates. No example from tropical Africa is preserved at Kew, but it is a weed 
that may occur anywhere. 
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