H+ CHENOPODIACE (Wright). | Atriplex. 
divaricate, ribbed, glabrous; lower leaves hastate, }-2} in. long, 
1-11 in. wide, the upper lanceolate or linear, }-1} in. long, all 
entire, glabrous ; flowers in clusters spicately arranged in the upper 
part of the branches; bracteoles sessile, about 1 lin. long, free 
nearly to the base, deltoid, entire or slightly dentate. Bolus & 
Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. iii. 311. A. angusti- 
folia, Sm. Fl. Brit. 1092, and Engl. Bot. t. 1774. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; ditch near Kenilworth racecourse, Wolley-Dod, 
2422! Caledon Div. ; Vugel Gat, Schlechter, 10426 ! 
Also in Europe and North Africa. A weed of cultivation. 
5. A. littoralis (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1054) ; stem erect, herbaceous, 
suleate, 24 ft. high, much branched; leaves alternate, linear- 
lanceolate or linear, 1-3 in. long, 14-3 lin. wide, entire or slightly 
sinuate, rather thick ; lateral nerves obsolete ; petiole short ; flower 
clusters distant on slender spikes paniculately arranged ; bracteoles 
in fruit rhomboid-ovate, coarsely dentate on the margins and back,. 
free nearly to the base, texture spongy, 2-7 lin. long; styles linear, 
thrice as long as the ovary. Mogquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 96, 460 ; 
Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xxiv. 136, t. 266. Chenopodium littorale, 
Thunb. in Act. Upsal. vii. (1815) 142. 
Coast Recion :; Uitenhage Div. ; Uitenhage, Zeyher ! 
Also in Europe. 
6. A. glauca (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 1493); stem slender, slightly 
woody, branched, terete, whitish ; leaves alternate, sessile, ovate 
or subrotundate, very obtuse, quite entire, 3-4 lin. long, 3 lin. 
wide, thick, crisped and somewhat sheathing at the base, silvery 
pulverulent ; nerves not conspicuous beneath; flower clusters. 
spicately arranged ; bracts in fruit 14 lin. long, sessile, rhomboid- 
deltoid, toothed near the base ; pericarp white ; seed compressed, 
fuscous, thick at the margin. Boiss. Voy. Bot. Espagne, ii. 542. 
Obione glauca, Moquin in DOC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 108. Chenopodium 
vestitum, Thunb. Prodr. 48, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 245. Atriplex 
maritima hispanica, ete., Dill. Hort. Elth. 46, t. 40, fig. 46. 
SourH AFrica : without locality, Thunberg. 
Also in Spain, North Africa and Arabia. 
This has the habit of Exomis axyrioides, Fenzl. 
7. A. Halimus (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1492); an erect shrub ; 
branches slightly angular, whitish pulverulent ; leaves alternate, 
elliptic or sometimes almost deltoid, very obtuse, entire, about 
1 in. long, } in. wide, densely silvery pulverulent on both surfaces ; 
petiole 2 lin. long; bracts rhomboid, long acuminate, denticulate 
near the base, 2-3 lin. long in fruit ; flowers in dense globose 
sessile clusters about 14 lin. in diam. arranged in terminal 
panicles; perianth } lin. in diam.; segments obovate, concave, 
