90 CVII. CHENOPODIACEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT), | Salsola. 
the apex. Leaves in small glomerules spaced out on the branchlets, 
minute, hemispherical, membranous at the edge, puberulous at the 
apex. Flowers solitary, axillary ; bracteoles triangular-hemispherical, 
cucullate, with a membranous margin. Perianth very small, 5-partite ; 
lobes broadly ovate-triangular, cucullate, thickened in the centre of the 
back, membranous at the edge, ciliate towards the base ; wings inserted 
at the centre of the back, membranous, suborbicular. Stamens 5; 
anthers sagittate, apiculate. Disk indistinctly lobed. Ovary depressed 
globose ; style short; stigmas 2 (rarely 3), oblong-linear. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: on plains on the way to Saberguma, Schweinfurth, 95 
of 1891 collection. 
Also in Arabia. 
8. S. Bottze, Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 964 in obs. A much-branched 
glabrous shrub. Branches patent, 3-7 in. long, virgate, pinnately 
branched. Leaves few, minute, fleshy, shortly deltoid, adpressed, 
keeled. Flowers spaced out on the branches, sessile ; bracts 3, ovate, 
concave, hyaline-margined. Perianth-segments 5, persistent, lanceo- 
late, 2 lin. long, 2 lin. wide, very dark brown, hyaline-margined. 
Filaments short; anthers sagittate, about 1 lin. long, with a short 
apical appendage. Ovary ovoid; style shortly subulate; stigmas 2, 
subulate, divergent. Wings of fruiting perianth inserted below the 
middle of the segments, 3 outer larger, 2 lin. long, nearly 3 lin. 
wide, flabellate, 2 inner slightly shorter and about half the width of 
the outer.—Var. Fauroti, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. i. 134. Halo- 
thamnus Botte, Jaub. & Spach, Ill. Pl. Orient. ii. 50,t.136. Caroxylon 
Wile Land. Somaliland: on rocks near Obock, Faurot, and withovt precise 
locality, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 
Also in Arabia, 
Imperfectly known species. 
. 9. S. candida, Fenzl ex Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. ii. 
62, name only. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Liideritz, 168. 
Probably identical with S. Zeyheri, Schinz. 
10. S. globulifiora, Fenzl ex Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. Vs 
Append. iii. 62, name only. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Great Namaqualand, Obib 
(Ubib ?), Schenck, 336. 
Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. 62. Caroxylon tuberculatum, 
Mogquin, l.c 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Great Namaqualand ; Rehoboth, 
Fleck, 336A. 
