Atriplex. | CHENOPODIACE (Wright). 443 
Belg. 20. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg. 
Also in Western Europe, from Britain southwards and throughout the 
Mediterranean region. 
2. A. Verreauxii (Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii, ii, 98); stem 
herbaceous or. slightly woody, erect, very sparingly branched, 
slightly ribbed, rigid, whitish lepidote ; leaves alternate, lanceolate, 
subdeltoid or oblong, subacute, cuneate at the base, 3-1 in, long, 
14-3 lin. wide, the lower irregularly denticulate, rather thick, 
densely lepidote on both surfaces; midrib prominent beneath ; 
petiole rather stout, 2-3 lin. long ; flowers collected in dense 
terminal spikes, male 5-merous ; _perianth-segments obovate, 
densely farinose; anthers oblong. A. farinosa, Moquin, Chenop. 
Enum. 55, not of Dumort. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Verreaux ex Moguin, and a specimen without 
locality or collector's name in Herb. Kew! 
‘The flowers have not been described by Moquin, and those on the Kew specimen 
(authenticated by him) are very young. The Kew specimen, although labelled 
South Africa, was probably collected by Curror in Angola. 
3. A. Bolusii (C. H. Wright) ; stem woody, subterete, densely 
white furfuraceous ; leaves alternate, oblanceolate, rounded at the 
apex, 6 lin. long, 2 lin. wide, very densely clothed on both surfaces 
with whitish scales, quite entire, rather fleshy ; petiole 3 lin. long ; 
flower clusters in spikes in the upper part of the plant, scaly like 
the leaves; bracteoles in fruit rotundate, 10 lin. in diam., sinuate- 
dentate, free, furfuraceous, membranous, strongly and reticulately 
veined ; utricle membranous, pellucid, 1} lin. in diam., compressed ; 
seed erect ; radicle superior ; style short ; stigmas 2, } lin. long. 
Western Rearon: Little Namaqualand; in sandy places near Port Nolloth, 
20 ft., Bolus, 9457! Pearson, 509! 
This is allied to A. leucoclada, Boiss., from Egypt and Arabia, which differs in 
having smaller fruiting bracteoles 3-lobed to the middle, 
4. A. patula, var. angustifolia (Syme, Engl. Bot. ed. 3, viii. 29, 
t. 702); an annual much-branched herb, 1-3 ft. high ; branches 
