438 CHENOPODIACEH (Wright). — [Chenopodium. 
long and 1} in. wide (usually smaller in South African specimens), 
coarsely and unequally toothed, acute, cuneate at the base, rather 
thin, bright pale green on both surfaces, pulverulent above ; petiole 
slender, rather shorter than the blade; cymes axillary, usually 
shorter than the leaves ; flowers sessile, } lin. in diam. ; perianth- 
segments elliptic, obtuse, slightly pulverulent outside, faintly keeled, 
closed over the fruit; stamens exserted ; anthers minute, globose ; 
seed lenticular, acute at the margin, dark brown or almost black, 
# lin. in diam.; embryo annular. Curt. Fl. Lond. iii. t. 117; 
Cap. ed. Schult. 246 ; Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 94, 104, 113; 
Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 4; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 0. 171; Bolus & 
Wolley-Dod in Trans. 8S. Afr. Phil. Soc, xiv. iii. 311; Baker & C. B. Cl. 
in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 78. 
Coast REGIon: Cape Div. ; Oatland Point, Wolley-Dod, 2856! Lion Mountain, 
under 500 ft., Drége! Uitenhage Div. ; Uitenhage, Zeyher, 471! Prior! Albany 
Div. ; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 3414 partly ! 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal; Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 624! Burtt-Davy, 
834! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1207 ! 
Oo Sages REGION: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 235! near Pietermaritzburg, Wilms, 
A cosmopolitan weed. 
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Coast Region: Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 3414, partly! 
Kingwilliams Town Div. ; banks of the Buffalo River near King Williams Town, 
Galpin, 5939 ! ; 
WEsTERN ReGIoN: Little Namaqualand; on hills at Brakdam, 2000 ft., 
Schlechter, 11159 ! 
CENTRAL REGION: Prince Albert Div. ; between Droogeheuvel and Jackhals 
Fontein, 2500-3000 ft., Drége. 
KaLaHari Recon : Transvaal ; Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 12! 
Also in Europe and North Africa. 
8. C. album (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 219) ; an annual herb of variable 
size ; stem erect, sulcate, branched, more or less mealy ; branches 
erect ; leaves rhomboid-triangular, obtuse or acute, sinuately 
toothed throughout or in the upper part only, or quite entire, 
2-3 in. long, petiolate, the uppermost oblong or linear-lanceolate 
and quite entire, pulverulent, green or white; flowers 1 lin. in 
diam., in glomerules arranged in lateral and terminal spikes ; 
