440 CHENOPODIACE (Wright). = [ Chenopodiwm. 
oblong, sinuately and obtusely lobed, almost glabrous, pale green 
on both sides, the lower 4 in. long, the upper 14—2 in. long, 
6-10 lin. wide; nerves slender, prominent beneath ; cymes shorter 
than the subtending leaves, much-branched; branches filiform, 
rigid; flowers minute, very shortly stalked; perianth-segments 
ovate, subacute, glandular, with a finely toothed keel, not entirely 
enclosing the fruit ; stamens exserted ; style short, branches fili- 
form ; seed lenticular with obtuse margin, smooth. Moquin in DC. 
Prodr. xiii. ii. 76; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 171. ©. schraderianum, 
Roem. d& Schult. Syst. vi. 260; C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
vi. i. 80. Botrydium Schraderi, Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. v. 299. 
Ambrina foetida, Moquin, Chenop. Enum. 38. 
SoutH Arrica : without locality. 
Also in Tropical Africa, Central and South America. 
Imperfectly known species. 
11. C. mucronatum (Thunb. Prodr. 48) ; stem herbaceous, erect, 
angular, very thinly pubescent, about 18 in. high; branches few, 
near the apex of the stem ; leaves triangular, hastate with rounded 
This may be a form of C. album, Linn. 
II. ROUBIEVA, Mogquin. 
Flowers minute, hermaphrodite or by abortion female, without 
bracts or bracteoles. Perianth urceolate, shortly 5-lobed, almost 
closed at the mouth in fruit ; lobes rounded, accrescent, coriaceous. 
Stamens 5; filaments thick ; anthers ovoid. Disk 0. Ovary globose ; 
stigmas 2-5, filiform or subulate, connate at the base; ovule sub- 
sessile. Utricle subglobose or oblong, enclosed in the enlarged 
perianth ; pericarp thinly membranous, Seed erect, orbicular, 
slightly compressed ; testa smooth, crustaceous ; embryo annular, 
surrounding the copious albumen. 
Branched glandular-puberulous herbs; leaves small, alternate, subsessile, 
sinuate-dentate or subpinnatifid ; fruits stalked, often subverticillate. 
Disrris. Species 2, in tropical and temperate America, one widely spread in 
the Old World. 
1. R. multifida (Moquin in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2™ sér. i. 293); a 
much-branched aromatic herb; stems up to 2 ft. long, prostrate, 
striate; leaves pinnatifid with linear or lanceolate lobes, up to 
