84 CVII. CHENOPODIACEH (BAKER AND CLARKE). | Kochia. 
Leaves }-4 by «3; in., flat or subcylindric—Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. 
ii. 181; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 70; Schinz in 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. iii. 60; O. Kuntze in Jahrb. Konigl. 
Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 273. K. pubescens, Moquin, Chenop. Enum. 192, 
in DC. Prodr. xiii, ii. 131; Volk. in Engi. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
nt 1A.: 70, 
Lower Guinea. German East Africa: Hereroland, Pechuel Loesche, Fleck, 
406. 
Also in South-west Africa. 
The variations in degree of pubescence which constitute two species with Volkens 
are (for me) altogether insufficient. J. G. Baker, indeed, donbts whether this species 
is well separated from the Mediterranean K. prostrata, Schrad. 
2. K. cana, Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 924. Branches white, obscurely 
silky. Leaves } in. long or less, oblong or narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 
very hairy even in age. Inflorescences subglobose, embedded in long 
brown hair. 
Wile Land. Nubia: coast region, Bent ! 
Also in South-east Persia. 
This plant differs from the widespread K. prostrata in having much shorter, 
blunter leaves. Boissier defines his K. cana as annual; but the example at Kew 
(viz., Bornmueller, 4184) is an undershrub. The examples of Bent do not provide 
means of analysis of either flower or fruit; they appear to me to match Bornmueller’s 
4184. 
5. HALOPEPLIS, Bunge; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 64. 
Flowers very small, 2-sexual. Perianth obconic, with 3 teeth. 
Stamens 1 or-2. Ovary ovoid, superior; style short, with 2 short 
linear branches; ovule 1, suspended on a basal funicle. Seed erect, 
orbicular, compressed; embryo peripheric round the albumen.— 
Annuals or shrubs, glabrous or nearly so; branches not jointed. 
Leaves ;}, in. long, obovate or orbicular, amplexicaul and appearing 
perfoliate in the tropical African specimens, Bracts in small spikes, 
with usually 3 flowers under each. 
Species 3, in the Mediterranean region, Arabia and Persia, 
1. H. perfoliata, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 289, name only. A 
woody branched glabrous shrub, 1-2 ft. high; branches with closely 
placed nodes, not jointed. Leaves zo in. long, obovate or orbicular, 
sessile and minutely decurrent at the base. Spikes of flowers small, 
dense; floral bracts similar to the leaves, with usually 3 flowers under 
each bract, more or less adnate thereto.—Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 935; 
Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iii. 1A, 74; Schweinf. in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 157. H. amplewicaulis, Ces. Pass. & Gib. 
Compend. FI. Ital, 271, t. 41, fig. 2. Salicornia perfoliata, Forsk. Fi. 
Aigypt.-Arab. 3, t. 1. 
