Suceda. | CVII. CHENOPODIACEE (BAKER AND CLARKE). 93 
Nile Land. Makaur Island, on the Nubian coast, Schweinfurth, 746! Eritrea: 
Massowa, Schweinfurth & Riva, 31! 68! 
Also in Arabia. 
Sueda puberula, Moquin (in DC. Prodr, xiii. ii, 157), had very farinose 
puberulous leaves, each seated on a minute tubercle, and white branches, and was 
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probably the present plant. S. vermiculata, Moquin (in DC, Prodr. xiii. ii. 155), 
11. CORNULACA, Delile; Benth, et Hook, f, Gen. PI. iii. 69, 
Flowers polygamous, mostly imperfect. Perianth-segments 5, united 
into a hard cup at the base; segments lanceolate, dilated upwards, 
membranous, or 1 or 2 of themspinous. Stamens 5; staminodes short, 
quadrate. Ovary ovoid, free or immersed in a disc; style short, with 
2 branches; ovule 1, nearly sessile. Utricle enclosed within the hardened 
base of the perianth; embryo spiral, without albumen; seed (where 
known) horizontal.—Small harsh undershrubs ; stem (and branches) 
continuous. Leaves small, alternate, when young ending in a spine, 
Flowers axillary, solitary or clustered, buried in wool in all the species 
except C. Khrenbergit. 
Species 4 or 5, extending from North Africa to Kabul. 
Many leaves distant. Flowers immersed in wool. . 1. C. monacantha, 
- Leaves densely imbricate. Flowers not immersed in 
wool , 5 : . - < ~ . 2. C. Khrenbergit. 
1. ©. monacantha, Del. Fl. Egypte, 206, ¢t. 22. A much- 
branched rigid low undershrub. Leaves }-} in. long, lanceolate, 
curved, ending in a spine, the base ovate, many distant; in age the 
spine often disappears, and the base of the leaf on the old branches 
becomes a cushion. Flowers clustered, buried in wool. Perianth in 
Worth Central. Sahara Desert in the Teda country, south of Tedjerri, 
Vogel! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Dongola, Zhrenberg. 
Also in North Africa and Western Asia. 
2. C. Ehrenbergii, Aschers. in Schweiny. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 184. 
A densely-branched undershrub. Leaves }-} in. long, closely imbricate, 
curved outwards, lanceolate, mucronate ; in age the branches are clothed 
with ovoid cushions from which the spines have entirely disappeared. 
Flowers solitary in the axils, not immersed in wool. Segments of 
perianth lanceolate, all shortly mucronate. 
Wile Land. Ketumbal Island, Hhrenberg! Eritrea: Massowa, Steudner, 
Somaliland: coast, Fawrot. 
