82 . CVII, CHENOPODIACEZ (BAKER AND CLARKE). [ Atriplex. 
2. A. Halimus, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1052, and ed. ii. 1492. 
An erect undershrub, 2-4 ft. high. Leaves alternate, petioled; blade 
1 in. long, oblong, narrowed at the base, with very close short whitish 
tomentum underneath. Branches mostly of one sex; inflorescences 
axillary, but running especially in the males into terminal panicles, 
leafless at the top. Male perianths with close tomentum. Two bracteoles 
of the fruit }—1 in. long and broad, triangular or ovate, smooth on the 
back, entire, sinuate or somewhat toothed on the margin, united only 
at the base. Fruit flattened, erect, between the two erect bracteoles.— 
Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 273. A. paludosa, Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 899, not of R. Br. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; about Caroca, Welwitsch, 6327 ! 
German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Marloth, 1456, Fleck, 725, Rautanen, 137, 
Guerich, 55, 145, 151, Pechuel Loesche. 
Europe and the Mediterranean region. 
As to the synonymy, the names given refer (for tropical Africa) to one example 
viz., Welwitsch, 6327, showing male branches. The A. paludosa, R. Br., is pro- 
cumbent, and his Australian specimens do not match in leaves the Mossamedes 
plant. Schinz keeps up A. capensis, Moquin, as distinct from A. Halimus, Linn, 
by the considerably larger bracteoles to the fruit—a character difficult to work as 
specific in European Aftripler. And Welwitsch, 6327, shows no fruit or female 
flowers. 
3. A. amboensis, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 
211. Closely resembling 4. Halimus in habit, leaves and inflorescence. 
Fruits about } in. long, the lower part globose, prickly, formed of the 
2 confluent bracteoles, which become woody with a wall ;}, in. thick, 
the pericarp exceedingly thin. Seed enclosed, small.—Schinz in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. v. Append. iii. 60. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; Omandongo, Schinz, 
468 ! 
This is described by Schinz as lepidote; I find in scraping off the indumentum 
no scales, but a minute tomentum, as in A, Halimus, Linn. Indeed, except by the 
fruit, I do not see how it could be distinguished from A. Halimus. 
4, A. farinosa, Vorsk. Fl. Zgypt.-Arab. cxxiii. An undershrub, 
3 ft. high, not mealy. Leaves alternate; blade 14 by 4-2 in., in the 
middle stem-leaves cordate or auricled (sometimes with acute auricles), 
margin entire or sparingly toothed, under surface with dense minute 
white tomentum ; petioles 0-$ in. Two bracteoles in fruit orbicular, 
iin. in diam., flattened, densely tomentose, without tubercles in the 
few examples seen.—Ascherson & Schweinf. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl 
Aethiop. 289; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 917, not of Dumort., nor of Mogquin. 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast region, Bent! Red Sea, Lord! British East 
Africa: Sabaki River, near Melindi, Kirk ! Mombasa, Kirk ! 
