Atriplex. | CVII. CHENOPUDIACEZ (BAKER AND CLARKE). 83 
Also in North Africa and Arabia. 
The expediency of reviving this name of Forskal, in use for another species, and 
applying it to a plant that is not mealy may be doubted. 
3. PLEUROPTERANTHA, Franch.; Benth. et Hook. 
f, Gen, EL ut. 1218. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 5-lobed, the 2 outer lobes longer 
than the others. Stamens 5, hypogynous ; filaments united into a short 
basal ring; anthers wide, introrse, dorsifixed. Ovary ovoid; ovule 
slightly campylotropous; style short; stigma thick, bifid. Utricle 
ovoid, enclosed between two orbicular reticulate wings (abortive flowers). 
—A glabrous stiff herb, divaricately branched. Leaves linear. Flowers 
small, in 3-flowered clusters arranged in spikes near the ends of the 
branches, the central flower fertile, the two lateral reduced to wings. 
Endemic, monotypic. 
1. P. Revoili, Franch. Sert. Somal. 60, ¢. 5. Branches slender, 
glabrous. Leaves linear, 1 in. long, 1 lin. wide, subacute. Flowers 
very small; bracts and bracteoles minute, deltoid, concave, Perianth: 
two outer segments herbaceous, finely ciliate on the margin, three 
inner flat, thinly membranous, slightly erose at the apex. Stamens 
rather shorter than the perianth. Perianth of barren florets at length 
6 lin. in diam., shallowly cup-shaped, finely and abundantly reticulate. 
Seed vertical; embryo slender, annular; albumen abundant. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Tigieh, Revoil. 
A barren specimen collected by W. Wickham Perry at Berbera on the Somali 
coast may belong to this species. 
4. KOCHIA, Roth; Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. PI. iii. 60. 
Flowers very small, 2-sexual or female. Perianth ovoid-cylindric, 
with 5 lobes; lobes persistent, incurved over the fruit, a scale or 
horizontal crest developed in fruit spreading from the base of each lobe. 
Stamens 5. Ovary sessile, ovoid; styles 2, or sometimes 3; ovule 1, on 
a short basal stalk. Utricle membranous; seed horizontal; embryo 
annular, surrounding the often scanty albumen.—Small shrubs or 
herbs ; stems not transversely marked nor as though jointed. Leaves 
alternate, small; blade linear-oblong or cylindric, not acute prickly. 
lowers in clusters of 2-3 or solitary, axillary and running into terminal 
leafless panicles, 
Species 30; many in Australia; a few scattered throughout the Old World. 
Leaves linear, when mature scarcely pubescent . . 1. K. salsoloides. 
Leaves oblong, when mature very hairy ° ° . 2. K. cana. 
1, K. salsoloides, Fenzl in Endl, et Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Decad. 
Vindob. 1839, 74. A branched undershrub, 1-2 ft. long; young parts 
pubescent ; stem when in fruit pubescent at the top or nearly glabrate. 
