Chenolea. | CHENOPODIACE& ( Wright.) 447 
V. CHENOLEA, Thunb. 
Flowers hermaphrodite and female, without bracts, bracteolate. 
Perianth turbinate, globose or orbicular-depressed, villous or 
tomentose, rarely glabrous ; lobes 5, incurved, accrescent, produced 
into spines or horns on the back, rarely unarmed. Stamens 5, 
hypogynous ; filaments compressed, short or long ; anthers oblong. 
Disk none. Ovary ovoid, attenuate into a long or short style; 
stigmas 2-3, capillary, papillose all over; ovule subsessile. Utricle 
enclosed in the crustaceous or coriaceous perianth ; pericarp 
membranous or hardened at the apex. Seed horizontal, orbicular ; 
embryo annular ; albumen scanty. 
Herbs or shrubs, erect or decumbent, usually hairy ; leaves alternate, sessile, 
linear, lanceolate or terete, quite entire ; flowers axillary, minute, solitary or 
clustered. 
DisrriB, Species 3, 2 in North Africa and Arabia and the following. 
1. OC. diffusa (Thunb. Nov. Gen. 10); stem decumbent, flexuous, 
terete, reddish, canescent when young ; leaves oblong or lanceolate, 
6 lin. long, 14 lin. wide, acute, sessile, fleshy, the upper erect, 
imbricate and clothed with silvery silky hairs, the lower spreading 
or retlexed and less hairy ; nerves inconspicuous ; flowers axillary, 
solitary, minute; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse, silky ; spinules 
minute, obtuse, rather villous. Echinopsilon diffusus, Moquin in 
DOC. Prodr. xiii, ii. 137. E. sericeus, Moquin, Chenop. Enum. 89. 
Salsola diffusa, Thunb. Prodr. 48, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 243. S. 
sericea, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 317. Kochia sericea, Sehrad. Neues 
Journ. 1809, 87. Chenopodium sericeum, Spreng. Syst. i. 921. 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Millers Point, Wolley-Dod, 2397! about the 
ponds and at Salt River, Burchell, 666! Knysna Div.; at the mouth of the 
Knysna River, Arauss, 786, ex Moquin. Uitenhage Div., Zeyher, 501! Prior ! 
East London Div. ; near the mouth of the Nahoon River, Galpin, 5674! Div. ? 
Redhouse, Mrs. Paterson, 287 ! 
CrenrraL Recon: Cradock Div. ; without precise locality, Cooper, 3055 ! 3140! 
KaLanart Recion: Bechuanaland; bank of the Moshowing River between 
Takun and Melito, Burchell, 2306 ! 
Eastern Recion: Natal ; near Durban, Wood, 901! 
VI. KOCHIA, Roth. 
Flowers hermaphrodite and female, without bracts or bracteoles. 
Perianth subglobose to urceolate, in fruit coriaceous, horizontally 
winged on the back; lobes 5, incurved. Stamens 5; filaments 
short or long, compressed; anthers large. Disk none. Ovary 
ovoid, attenuate into a slender style ; stigmas 2-3, capillary, 
papillose all over; ovule subsessile. Utricle depressed-globose ; 
pericarp membranous or coriaceous at the apex. Seed horizontal, 
