88 CVIIe CHENOPODIACEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [ Salsola. 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 183. Chenopodium baryosmon, Roem. & 
Schultes, Syst. Veg, vi. 269. 
Wile Land. Nubia: Oobisch, near Berber, Schweinfurth, 740! Wady Halfa, 
in crevices of sandstone rocks, Scott-Elliot, 3420! between Berber and Khartoum, 
Bromfield ! sea-coast, Bent! Somaliland: shore at Obock, Faurot. 
Also in North Africa, Western Asia and India. Native name in Egypt “ mulley,” 
in Nubia “ deberrah.” 
2. S. vermiculata, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 223. A much-branched 
undershrub. Branches alternate, ascending, not jointed, pubescent. 
Leaves alternate or fascicled, ovate, slightly dilated and keeled at the 
base, 2—4 lin. long, more or less hairy. Flowers in dense spikes; 
bracts elliptic, very obtuse, keeled, membranous at the margin. 
Perianth 5-lobed; segments ovate-triangular, subacute, wings inserted 
below the middle, obovate. Filaments long, exserted, dilated at the 
base; anthers oblong, not appendiculate. Disk none. Wings of 
fruiting perianth inserted at the middle of the lobes, about 2 lin. long, 
the two inner slightly smaller—Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 181; 
Boiss, Fl. Orient. iv. 962; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 
186. WS. flavescens, Cav. Ic. t. 288. 
Nile Land. Nubia: banks of the Nile near Tingur, Ehrenberg ex Ascherson, 
Var. microphylla, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii, ii. 181. Branches glabrous. 
Leaves very short.—S. microphylla, Cav. Ic. t. 287. S. brevifolia, Desf. Fl. Atl. i. 
218. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger / 
This species occurs in various forms in South Europe, the Canary Islands, North 
Africa and Western Asia. 
3. S. rubescens, Franch. Sert. Somal. 60. A small much-branched 
shrub, entirely covered with very short silky whitish indumentum ; 
branches articulate. Leaves alternate, about 2 lin. long, thick, obtuse, 
concave above. Flowers in dense heads at the ends of the branches, 
each one nestling in a bract similar to, but smaller than, the leaves. 
Perianth 5-partite ; segments obovate, conniving and pilose at the apex, 
reddish when mature; wings inserted in the middle of the back, rotun- 
date, coriaceous, the three outer nearly three times the size of the inner. 
Disk small, with short rounded lobes. Stamens 5, free. Style bifid to 
the middle. Utricle depressed, 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Bender Gasem, Revoil. 
Native name “ arkado.” 
4, S. crassa, WM, Bieb. in Mém. Soc. Nat. Mosc. i. (1811), 100. 
Stem ascending, much-branched, villous; branches alternate, not 
jointed. Leaves alternate, 2-8 lin. long, semiterete from a sheathing 
base, obtuse; whitish villous. Flowers solitary; bracts shortly ovate, 
concave, densely silky. Perianth-segments ovate, acuminate, silky out- 
side above the insertion of the wing. Disk very shallowly cup-shaped. 
Anthers oblong, terminated by an erect obovate white appendage. 
