Roubieva.| |  CHENOPODIACE® (Wright). 441 
1} in. long and 9 lin. wide, tapering downwards, shortly petiolate, 
glandular-puberulous ; nerves prominent beneath; flowers sub- 
sessile in axillary clusters ; perianth } lin. long, puberulous, in fruit 
reticulately veined ; lobes ovate, subobtuse ; utricle oblong, whitish 
with irregular orange spots; seed shortly beaked, blackish, shining, 
rugose. Chenop. Enum. 43, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 80; Bolus 
& Wolley-Dod in Trans. Phil. Soc. 8S. Afr. xiv. iii. 311. Atriplex 
multifida, Crantz, Inst. i. 207. Chenopodium Payco, Roem. & Schult. 
Syst. vi. 260. Ambrina pinnatisecta, Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. v. 296. 
Care Recion: Cape Div.; between Newlands Bridge and village, Wolley- 
Dod, 2449! Albany Div. ; Grahamstown, MacOwan, 3411! 
Katanari Recion: Transvaal ; Standerton, Burtt-Davy, 1783 ! 
Also in the Mediterranean region and South America. 
III. EXOMIS, Fenzl. 
Male flowers: Sepals 5, ovate or triangular, acute, concave. 
Stamens 5 ; filaments filiform ; anthers ovate. Hermaphrodite flowers : 
Sepals 3-5, sometimes none, very minute, slightly united below. 
Staminodes none. Styles 2, united below, stigmatic on the inner 
surface. Fruit fleshy, sometimes enclosed in the accrescent bracts ; 
pericarp adherent to the seed. Seed vertical ; testa crustaceous ; 
albumen copious, floury, surrounded by the annular embryo. 
An ashy-grey shrub; leaves alternate, entire; flowers in terminal spikes or 
axillary clusters, the male ebracteate, the hermaphrodite 2-bracteate. 
Distris. Species 1, endemic. 
1. EB. axyrioides (Fenzl ex Moquin, Chenop. Enum. 49) ; a shrub 
1-2 ft. high ; branches rigid, 1-2 lin. in diam., ribbed when dry ; 
leaves deltoid-ovate or elliptic, obtuse or subacute, }~-1 in. long, 
3-5 lin. wide, quite entire, greyish green, glabrous or the upper- 
most farinose ; midrib prominent beneath; petiole 1-3 lin. long ; 
flowers in axillary clusters, sessile ; bracts narrowed below ; sepals 
triangular or ovate, } lin. long; stamens about as long as the 
sepals; fruit oblong; pericarp whitish ; seed compressed, obtuse 
at the margin, smooth, black, shining. Moguin in DC. Prodr. 
xiii. ii, 89; Drége, Zwei Pfl. Docwumente, 78 ; Melliss, Fi. St. 
Helena, 314. Chenopodium pauciflorum, Herb. Vindob. ex Moquin in 
DC. Prodr. 1.c. 
Sourn Arrica ; without locality, Bergius ! 
Coast Recton: Cape Div. ; kloof between the Lions Head and Table Mountain, 
Burchell, 249! Van Kamps Bay, 50 ft., MacOwan, 1619! and Herb. Austr.-Afr., 
1784! Castle ditch, Wolley-Dod, 2460! Tulbagh Div. ; New Kloof, 500-2000 tt., 
Drége, 80276! Schlechter, 9048! Caledon Div. ; Caledon, Zeyher! Hang Klip, 
Mund & Maire. Uitenhage Div.; Enon, Baur, 1004! and without precise 
locality, Zeyher, 71! Albany Div. ; Grahamstown, MacOwan ! 
