448 CHENOPODIACE (Wright). | Kochia. 
orbicular, depressed ; embryo annular, surrounding the scanty 
albumen. 
Herbs or shrubs, hairy, rarely glabrous ; leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, 
sessile, linear to oblong, flat or terete, sometimes minute, quite entire ; flowers 
axillary, small, sessile, solitary or clustered. 
Disrrie. Species about 30, in Central Europe, Temperate Asia, North Africa 
and Australia. } 
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Var. 8, cinerascens (Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii, 131); leaves with ashy- 
grey hairs. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1442! Var. B; Zeyher, 1449. 
CENTRAL REGION : Graaff Reinet Div. ; Graaff Reinet, 2800 ft., Bolus, 410! 
The Australian plant mentioned by Moquin is A. villosa, Lindl. 
Imperfectly known species. 
2. K. salsoloides (Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Dec. Vindob. 1839, 74); a 
shrub ; stems procumbent, striate, much-branched, almost glabrous, 
sometimes rusty-tomentose when young; branches filiform, about 
2 ft. long; leaves filiform, obtuse, flaccid, reflexed, villous or 
hirsute when young, naked in age; flowers in clusters of 2-7, 
pubescent ; perianth-wing 14 lin. wide, with obovate-subrotundate 
lobes, flabellately nerved, coloured. Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 
CenrraL Recion: Prince Albert Div.; Jackhals Fontein and banks of the 
Gamka River, Drége, 8022. 
Moquin (I.c.) suggests that this may be the same as K’. pubescens, Moquin. 
VII. SALICORNIA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, immersed in clusters of 
3-7 in hollows at the articulations of the branches, free or connate. 
Perianth fleshy, 3-4-toothed. Stamens 2, rarely 1; filament terete ; 
anther exserted, lobes globose. Ovary ovoid, attenuate at the apex; 
style lacerate at the apex or with two subulate stigmas papillose 
