442 CHENOPODIACEZ (Wright). | Lxomis. 
CrentRAL Recon: Calvinia Div. ; Oorlogs Kloof, Onder Bokkeveld, 2200 ft., 
Schlechter, 10932 ! 
Katanari Recion : Griqualand West ; St. Clair, Douglas, Orpen, 166! Orange 
River Colony ; Bloemfontein, Potts, 491! 
This species varies much in the density or otherwise of its habit. 
IV. ATRIPLEX, Linn. 
Flowers moneecious or diccious. Male flowers without bracts or 
bracteoles. Perianth 3—5-partite ; segments obovate or oblong, 
obtuse. Stamens 3-5, inserted at the base of the perianth ; fila- 
ments free or connate at the base; anthers 2-lobed. Rudiment of 
ovary none or conical. Female flowers bibracteolate ; bracteoles 
accrescent, in fruit dilated at the base and connate into a 2-lipped 
cup, rarely quite separate. Perianth none. Disk and staminodes 
rudimentary. Ovary ovoid or depressed-globose ; stigmas 2, subu- 
late or filiform, connate at the base; ovule erect on a short funicle 
or suspended from a long basal funicle. Uftricle included in the 
much enlarged bracteoles; pericarp membranous. Seed erect or 
inverted, rarely horizontal ; testa membranous, coriaceous or almost 
crustaceous ; embryo annular, surrounding the floury albumen. 
Herbs or shrubs, more or less furfuraceous or covered with lepidote scales ; 
leaves alternate, rarely opposite, sessile or stalked ; flowers in glomerules either 
axillary and sessile or collected into spikes or panicles. 
DistriB. Species about 100, in the temperate and tropical regions of the whole 
world. 
Leaves all opposite and entire... 1.00 w. ... (1) portulacoides. 
Leaves alternate, rarely the lower opposite : 
Leaves linear to oblong, entire or finely toothed : 
Stem more or less woody : : 
Leaves lanceolate to oblong, subacute... ... (2) Verreauxii. 
Leaves oblanceolate, obtuse i oe ... (3) Bolusii. 
Stem herbaceous : 
Bracteoles 3-lobed, entire or slightly toothed ... (4) patula. 
Bracteoles coarsely dentate, spongy ese ... (5) littoralis. 
Leaves ovate or subrotund, entire ae oe ... (6) glauca, 
Leaves deltoid to elliptic, entire: 
Bracteoles membranous, more or less toothed ... (7) Halimus. 
Bracteoles fleshy, entire fe ay ae ... (8) albicans. 
Leaves lanceolate to deltoid, coarsely toothed or 
sinuate : 
Bracteoles in fruit spongy ..,. ies eae ... (9) halimoides, 
Bracteoles in fruit not spongy : 
Spikes leafy ... ink nae wi se ..- (10) rosea, 
Spikes naked, except at the base ... or ... (11) laciniata. 
1. A. portulacoides (Gmel. Syst. 450) ; an unarmed shrub, pro- 
cumbent at the base; branches angular ; leaves opposite, obovate 
