SalsolecB.] CXXXI. OHENOPODIACE^. 75 



2. Gamanthiis. Perianthii segmenta omnia fructifera immutata. Gamanthus, Bunge, Anabas, 

 Ecvis. 76, t. 1,/. 13 ad 15, et in Boiss. FL Or. iv. 979. Pall. 111. PL t. 20 (Salsola). 



71. Halarclion, Bunge, Aiiahas. Ecvls. 75, t, 1, f. 12, 25, 26. — Flores hermaphroditi, 

 axillares, solitarii, 2-bracteolati. Periantliium hyalinum, 5-partitum ; segmenta (quorum 

 2 exteriora) oblongo-lanceolata, acutissima, enervia, fructif era immutata. Stamina 5, disco 

 minutissinio inserta, filamentis linearibus apice emarginato-truncatis ; antherie angnste 

 lineares, loculis discretis, connectivo in vesiculam globoso-pyriformem roseam producto ; 

 staminodia 0. Ovarium columnare ; stylus basi bulboso-incrassatus, medio denticulis vcr- 

 ticillatis anctus, stigmate capitato 24obo indusio membranaceo infundibulari lacero de- 

 mum fecundatione peracta reverse cincto ; ovulum ab apice funiculi pendulum. Utriculus 

 in specimine immaturus. Semen erectum, radicula supera tx Bungco. — Herba annua, 

 glauca, canescens, caule erecto, ramis alternia patentibua v, decumbentibu3. Folia infima 

 opposita, ca3tera altema, semi-teretia, pungentia, semi-amplexicaulia. Flores parvi, 

 superiora congesta ; bracteol^e cuspidatse. 



Species 1, in salsiiginosis Affghanistaniae obvia. Bunge in Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. 979. Planta valdo 

 singiilaris,^a/a«^^/o ut nobis videtur, ovarii indole excepto, proximo affinis, an ejus forma sexualis? 



72. Plptoptera, Butige in Act Hort. Petrop. v. 644.— Flores henn ai:»broditi, axillares, 

 2-bracteolati. Periantliium 5-partitum ; segmenta basi indurata et connata, 2 exteriora 

 navicularia, 3-norvia, 3 interiora angustiora, enervia ; fructifera 2 exteriora latissime 

 membranaceo- al at a, alis demum articulatim solutis thccam a latere subcompressam 

 6-costatam supra medium 2-auriculatam relinquentibus. Stamina 5, disco obscuro inserta, 

 filamentis linearibus ; antherse minutce, cordatfe, connectivo in vesiculam conicam sub- 

 acutam producto; staminodia 0. Ovarium ovoideo-globosum, in stylum basi usque 

 2-partitum productum, cruribus (stigmatibus) subulatis strictis erectis ; ovulum^ ab apice 

 funiculi suspensum. Utriculus perianthii basi nuceo inclusus, orbicularis, com- 

 pressusj pericarpio membranaceo semini non adhserente. Semen inversum, orbiculare, 

 compressum, testa tenuissima, albumine ; embryo piano- spiralis, radicula supera.— Herba 

 annua?, ramosissima, habitu SalsolcBj crassa, bispidula, ramis patentibus. Folia altema, 

 sessilia, superiora recm'va, carnosa, trigona, acuta; floralia breviora, basi late ovata, 

 pungentia, late membranaceo-marginata. Flores solitarii, sessiles ; bracteolse foliis 

 sub^imiles sed longiores, persistentes. 



Species 1, Turkestanise incola. Exemplar mancum vidimus, a Maximoviczio benovole missum. 



73. Haloffeton, 0. A. Meg, Fl, Alt. i. 378, ex paree.— Flores polygami, glomerati, axil- 

 lares, bracteolati v. ebracteolati. Perianthium 5-partitum ; segmenta (quorum 2 exteriora) 

 dorso apicem versus alata v. gibba, fructifera immutata v. rarissime indurata. Stamina 

 5 V. pauciora, disco parvo inserta v. hypogyna, filamentis linearibus ; antherse oblongse 

 V. didynije, inappendiculata^ ; staminodia v. 5, filamentis alterna, lingulata, apice 

 Integra v. fimbriata. Ovarium ovoideum, compressum, in stylum brevem subulatum 

 angustatum, stigmatibus 2 filiformibus suberectis ; ovulum funiculo brevi v. elongato. 

 rtriculus periantliio inclusus, late ovoideus, a latere compressus, pericarpio membranaceo 

 semini plus minusve .adhi:erente. Semen inversum, rarissime horizontale, orbiculare 

 V. gibbum, extremitate radiculari porrecto, testa membranacea v. subcoriacea, albumine 

 0; embryo spiralis, radicula porrecta laterali v. supera. —Herbse annuae, ramosissimae, 

 crassiuscuiix;, glabrae arachnoidese v. subvillos?e. Folia altema, sessilia, carnoaula, teretia 

 V. oblonga, obtusa v. apice setifcra, axillis siepe pilosis. Flores minuti, lana laxa immersi 

 v. stipati, centralis ebracteolatus, lateralium 2exteriore3 bracteolati; inglomerulis infimia 

 flos medius hermaphroditus, laterales foeminei; in glomerulis trifloris saepe omnes her- 

 maphroditi, in multifloris exteriores interdum perianthio orbati. 



Species 5, Hispaniae ausfralig, Algerise, Asiseque centralis incolse. Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. 

 ii. 204. excL sp. n. 1, 2, 3. Bungc, Anahas. Revis. 93, et in Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. 986. Ledeb. III. 



Fl. lioss. t. 40. 



MiCBOPEPLis, Bunge, Eel. Lehm. 474 (298), 479 (303), seminibus saepispime horizontalibus, ab 



