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10. SUASDA, Forsk.; Benth: et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 66. 
Flowers polygamous, moncecious, or 2-sexual. Perianth urn-shaped 
in the bud; lobes 5, often deeper in the male flowers. Stamens 5; 
ovary ovoid, truncate at the top; style hardly any, branches 3; ovule 1, 
suspended on a basal funicle. Fruit enclosed in the succulent perianth, 
which is sometimes subbaccate; seed erect or rarely horizontal ; 
embryo coiled, with little or no albumen.—Undershrubs, glabrous 
except S. vermiculata, much-branched. Stem continuous. Leaves 
alternate, or in S. vermiculata to a small extent pseudopposite, fleshy, 
linear or cylindric, or in 8. vermiculata obovoid-subglobose. Flowers 
solitary or in small dense clusters, in the axils, sometimes running 
Into leafy quasi-terminal spikes. 
Species 10 (several of these ill-defined), scattered nearly throughout the world. 
. Each leaf without a tubercle supporting its base. 
Upper leaves nearly an inch long; flowers unisexual 3. S. monoica. 
Upper leaves much less than an inch long. 
Flowers very small; perianth not angular. 
Perianth in fruit fleshy . 5 ° ° 
Perianth in fruit berry-like ‘ . 
Flowers rather larger; perianth somewhat penta- 
gonal . A - 4. S. Volkensit. 
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' Each leaf with a tubercle ‘supporting it at the base . S. vermiculata. 
1. S. fruticosa, Forsk. Fl. Lgypt.-Arab. cix. and 70, Ic. 9. A 
glabrous, much-branched shrub, 1-2 ft. in diam: Leaves: alternate, 
scattered, linear, narrowed at the very base without any supporting 
tubercle beneath ; leaves on the branches usually }-} in. long, the 
lower leaves longer, often 4-3 in. long. Flowers very small, axillary, 
many solitary 2-sexual, some in few-flowered clusters. Perianth 
broadly cylindric in bud, hardly at all pentagonal.—Moquin in Ann. 
Sc. Nat. 17° sér. xxiii. 311, t. 20, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 156 ; Boiss. 
Fl. Orient. iv. 939; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 
80; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 157. Chenopo- 
dium fruticosum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 221. Salsola fruticosa, Linn. Sp. 
Pl. ed. ii. 324; Sowerby, Engl. Bot. t. 635. Lerchea obtusifolia, Steud. 
Nomenel. ed. i. 187, 474; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 900. ZL. 
maritima, y fruticosa, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 549. 
Mile Land. Eritrea: Massowa, Schweinfurth & Riva, 27! 67! High Island, 
Harnish group, Slade, 11! Somaliland: Shebele River, near Magodoxo, Kirk ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Benguella, Welwitsch, 6322! Mossamedes, Wel- 
witsch, 6321, 63218! 
Also in North Africa and Europe, extending to England and through the Orient 
to Western India. 
The Shebele River example has the leaves linear-oblong, very densely crowded, 
and may be called S. fruticosa, var. maritima, C. B. Cl. 
1. 8. fruticosa. 
2. S. baccata. 
2. S. baccata, Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Phlanzenfam. iii. 1A, 80. 
Leaves linear. Perianth in fruit more fleshy, coalescent and berry-like. 
