86 CVII.. CHENOPODIACEH (BAKER AND CLARKE). [Arthvocnemum. 
stems erect, branched, 6-20 in. high. Fruiting spikes 14-24 in. long, 
2 lin. broad, rough, 7.e., not forming smooth cylinders, the flowers being 
partially emergent.—A. glaucum, Ung. Sternb. in Atti, Congr. Bot. 
Firenze, 1874, 283; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 932; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
v. 12; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 76, fig. 35, H-N ; 
Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. iii. 61; W. D.T. Koch, Syn. 
Fl. Deutsch. ed. 3, iii. 2222. A. macrostachyum, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 
Welw. i. 899, partly. Halocnemum glaucum, Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 109. 
Wile Land. Nubia: coast region, Rent ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; near Boca de Giraul, Welwitsch, 
6328! Loanda ; sandy maritime places, Welwitsch, 6331! German South-west 
Africa: Walfisch Bay, Guerich, 22. 
2. A. macrostachyum, Mor. d: Delp. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 sér. ii. 377. 
Stem and branches stouter, very succulent. Spikes in fruit numerous, 
#-14 in. long, 24 lin. broad, “rough,” but less so than in A. fruticosum. 
—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 899, partly. A. fruticosum, var. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Gossweiler, 198! Ambriz; by the River 
Ongo, Welwitsch, 6330. 
Also in North Africa, Europe, and the Orient. 
3. A. indicum, Moguin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 151. Stem pro- 
strate, throwing up-many suberect fruiting spikes, 2} lin. in diam., 7.., 
about as stout and succulent as in A. macrostachyum. Spikes 14-23 in. 
long, 24 lin. broad, “‘ smooth,” 7.e., the flowers wholly hidden.— Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 12; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 
76. <A. sp., Hiern in Cat. Afr, Pl. Welw. i. 900. Salicornia indica, 
Wight, Ic. Pl. t. 737. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, ex Moquin. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 6329. 
Also in India, . 
8. SALICORNIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 66. 
Seed without, or nearly withont, albumen ; the seed suddenly bent 
where the radicle joins the cotyledons, so that the radicle lies nearly 
parallel with (but in an opposite direction to) the cotyledons. Other- 
wise as Arthrocnemum. 
Species 9, on the sea-coasts of the world. 
1, S. herbacea, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 3, and ed. ii. 5. An erect, 
glabrous, much-branched annual, 6-12 in. high. Leaves none, the 
numerous branches usually terminating in a spike of flowers. Spikes 
in fruit 3-1 by 3 in., cylindric, continuous, more slender than in the 
species of Arthrocnemum.—Moquin in DC. Prodr, xiii. ii. 144; Boiss. 
Fl. Orient. iv. 933 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C.171; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, 
