Chenopodium. | CHENOPODIACE& (Wright). 437 
SoutH AFrica: without locality, Pappe! Drége, 8029b! 8030 ! 
Coast REcion: Cape Div. ; flats near Claremont, Wolley-Dod, 2464! Castle 
Ditch (forma coarctata), Wolley-Dod, 2462! Uitenhage Div. ; Uitenhage, Prior ! 
Albany Div. ; Grahamstown, MacOwan, 3409a! Queenstown Div. ; plains near 
Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 2042! Shiloh, Baur, 789! 
WEsTERN Region: Little Bushmanland ; Henkries, Schlechter ! 
KataHart Reaion: Transvaal; Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 13! and without 
precise locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5783 ! 
Eastern Recion; Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1314! and without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 245! 
Also in Tropical Africa and widely spread as a weed in hot countries. 
4. C. polyspermum (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 220); a procumbent or 
suberect herb, branched from the base ; stem ribbed and more or 
less angular ; leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, shortly mucro- 
nate, quite entire, thin, glabrous, usually about 1$ in. long and 
4 in. wide; petiole slender, 6 lin. long; flowers very numerous in 
(sometimes clustered) spikes in the axils of much reduced leaves, 
1 lin. in diam. ; perianth-segments elliptic, obtuse, patent, not com- 
pletely enclosing the fruit ; stamens exserted ; seed acute at the 
margin, shining, obscurely punctate; embryo annular. Moguin in 
ii. 4. 112. ©. marginatum, Spreng. in Hornem. Hort. Hafn. i. 256. 
Atriplex polysperma, Crantz, Inst. i. 207. 
Var. 8, cymosum (Cheval. Flor. Env. Paris, ii. 885) ; leaves ovate or lanceolate, 
rather obtuse; flowers in axillary much-branched cymes. Moguin in DC. 
Prodr, le. 
Coast Recon: British Kaffraria, Cooper, 8062! Var. 8: British Kaffraria, 
Cooper, 3068 ! 
Also in Europe and N. Asia, introduced in N, America. 
5. C. glaucum (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 220) ; a herb about 1 ft. high ; 
stem prostrate or ascending, suleate, much-branched ; leaves ovate- 
oblong, repand or remotely toothed, rarely entire, glabrous above, 
farinose and pale green beneath, 14-2 in. long, 3-3 in. wide; mid- 
rib prominent beneath; flowers in short dense axillary leafless 
spikes, glabrous; perianth-segments obovate-oblong, obtuse, not 
keeled, sometimes by abortion 3 or 4, not entirely covering the 
fruit; fruit greenish above; seed sometimes vertical; embryo 
annular. Fl. Dan. t. 1151; Moguin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 72; 
Drege, Zwei Pfl. Docwmente, 49, 58; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 4. 
Atriplex glauca, Orantz, Inst. i. 207. Blitum glaucum, Koch, Syn. 
Fl. Germ. ed. ii. 699. 
Coast Region: Queenstown Div. ; on the plains between Table Mountain and 
Wildschuts Berg, 4000 ft., Drége. 
CENTRAL een Victoria ‘West Div. ; Nieuwveld between Brak River and 
Uitvlugt, 3000-4000 ft., Drege. 
Also in Europe and India. 
6. C. murale (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 219); stem ascending up to 
1} ft. high, suleate, branched ; leaves ovate or deltoid, up to 3 in, 
