436 CHENOPODIACEE (Wright). | Chenopodium. 
Souts Arrica: Without locality, Prior ! 
Centra Recron: Graaff Reinet Div. ; Sneeuw Berg, 5300 ft., Bolus, 1863 ! 
Also in South Europe, the Orient and India. 
2. C. rubrum (Linn. Sp. Pl, ed. i. 218); plant polymorphic ; 
stem angular, branched, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous, sometimes reddish ; 
leaves deltoid or deltoid-ovate, subobtuse, cuneate at the base, 
sinuate or sinuate-dentate, 2-6 in. long, 8-15 lin. wide (9 by 5 lin. 
in var. pseudobotryoides), rather thick, shining glaucous-green or 
reddish, nerves prominent beneath ; glomerules simple or slightly 
compound, the upper subspicate, leafy or not ; flowers dimorphic, 
3-1 lin. long, sessile, glabrous ; terminal flowers : perianth 5-partite ; 
stamens 5 ; seed horizontal ; lateral flowers: perianth-segments 2—3, 
obovate, obtuse, not keeled; stamens 1-2; seed obtuse at the 
margin, puncticulate, shining ; embryo annular. Curt. Fl. Lond. ili. 
y Ra 
Coast Recion: Cape Diy.; stream-bed near Kenilworth racecourse, Wolley- 
Dod, 2465 ! 
Also in South Europe, the Orient and the Azores. 
The South African plant belongs to the variety pseudobotryoides, H. C. Watson, 
characterized by its prostrate habit and smaller leaves, but its author recorded in 
the Botanical Exchange Club Report for 1868, 13, that under certain conditions it 
developed into typical C. rubrum, Linn. 
3. C. ambrosioides (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 219); stem herbaceous, 
erect, branched, 1—2 ft. high, more or less pubescent ; leaves oblong, 
acute at both ends, sinuate-dentate or subentire, thin, puberulous, 
up to 4 in. long and 14 in. wide, shortly petiolate: flowers in 
clusters spicately arranged amongst the uppermost often linear- 
lanceolate and entire leaves; perianth-segments ovate, obtuse ; 
stamens exserted ; filaments linear ; fruit entirely enclosed by the 
rianth ; seed rounded at the margins, sometimes vertical. Willd. 
v. 297. 
