Salsola. | CVII, CHENOPODIACEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 89 
in Linnea, xxii, 190. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Berbereh, Wykeham Perry! Behendula, maritime 
plain, 1000 ft., on bare limestone rocks, Thomson ! 
Also in Western Asia and South-eastern Europe. A very variable plant, 
especially as to the indumentum. 
5. S. Zeyheri, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. iii. 62. An 
erect shrub. Stem much-branched, pubescent ; branches terete, not 
articulate, pubescent, ashy grey. Leaves alternate, 2-3 lin. long, about 
1 lin. wide, thick and fleshy, concave above, broadly keeled beneath, 
tomentose. Flowers subsolitary; bracts triangular-ovate or ovate- 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes] sides of sandhills at Cavalheiros, 
Welwitsch, 6320! German South-west Africa: Damaraland; sand dunes, Walfisch 
Bay, Pearson, 538 ! 
Also in South Africa, 
6. S. aphylla, Linn. f. Suppl. 173. A much-branched shrub, 
reaching a height of 6 ft. Branches slender, terete, not jointed, pallid, 
pubescent. Leaves alternate, ovate, minute, amplexicaul, densely 
pubescent. Flowers solitary ; bracts suborbicular, keeled, pubescent. 
Perianth-segments ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, slightly pubescent. Fila- 
ments dilated below; anthers oblong, with a minute terminal appen- 
dage. Disk fleshy, obtusely 5-lobed. Style elongate ; stigma subulate. | 
Wings of the fruiting perianth inserted below the middle of the 
segments, obovate, membranous, yellowish or dull purple, the two 
inner narrower than the others.—Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 
Append. iii. 61. Caroxylon Salsola, Thunb. Diss. Med. Afr. (1785), 8 ; 
Moquin in DO. Prodr. xiii. ii. 176. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Potmine, 
Giirich, 110; Sandfontein, Stapff, 2; Amboland; Ombuja J’oohama, Rautanen, 
19; Great N amaqualand ; near Rehoboth, Fleck, 366a. 
Also in South Africa, 
7. S. Porskalii, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 160. 
A glabrous shrub. Branches erect, much divaricate, white, slender ; 
branchlets hard, very slender, patent, quite straight, white pubescent at 
