450 CHENOPODIACE ( Wright). [Salicornia. 
Coast Reaton: Cape Div. ; rocky shore north of Camps Bay, Alexander Prior ! 
Wolley-Dod, 3056! Hout Bay, Harvey, 194! Knysna Div.; salt marshes at 
Knysna, 10 ft., Galpin, 4428! Uitenhage Div., Zeyher, 5! Port Elizabeth 
Div. ; Cape Recife, Burchell, 4898 ! Div. ? Redhouse, Mrs. Paterson, 497! Var. B: 
Cape Div. ; about the Ponds and at Salt River, Burchell, 667! beyond 
Uitvlugt, Wolley-Dod, 1430! rocky shore below Paulsberg, Wolley-Dod, 3012! 
by Raapenburg Vley, near the Observatory, Wolley-Dod, 2690! Var. y: Cape 
Div. ; sand flats between Paarden Island and Tygerberg, Drége! Var. 5: Cape 
Div. ; Paarden Island, Drége. 
Eastern Recon: Transkei; Kentani coast, in patches of mud and sand 
within tidal reach, Miss Pegler, 648 ! 
Also on the shores of Europe and North and Tropical Africa. 
3. 8. natalensis (Bunge ex Ungern-Sternb. Vers. Syst. Salic. 
62); stem 6-8 in. high, creeping below, glabrous; articulations 
funnel-shaped, 2-lobed, about 6 lin. long, and 2 lin. in diam. at the 
mouth; spikes 6-9 lin. long; flowers in clusters of 3; perianth 
3 lin. long, becoming much curved in the upper part; teeth very 
short and blunt; seed lenticular. S. indica, Drege, Zwei Pf. 
Documente, 159, not of Willd.  Arthrocnemum indicum, Bunge, 
Relig. Lehmann. Bot. 459, not of Moquin. 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; Camps Bay, Burchell, 844! Uitvlugt, Wolley- 
Dod, 2691! Raapenburg Vley, Wolley-Dod, 2398! Knysna Div.; Plettensbergs 
Bay, sandhills, Burchell, 5810! East London Div. ; water edge, near the mouth 
of the Nahoon River, Galpin, 5673. 
EastERN Recion: Natal; Durban Bay, Drége ! 
VIII. SUADA, Forsk. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or by abortion unisexual, minute, bracteate 
and bibracteolate. Perianth globose, turbinate or urceolate, more 
or less fleshy ; lobes 5, equal and without appendages, or 1—2 larger 
and inflated or horned, rarely all with a small transverse wing on 
the back. Stamens 5, more or less perigynous; filaments short ; 
anthers rather large. Disc elevated or none. Ovary sessile by a 
broad base or adnate to the tube of the perianth, rounded or 
truncate at the apex ; stigmas 2—5, short, subulate, papillose all 
over; ovule subsessile. Utricle included in the perianth, mem- 
branous or almost spongy. Seed horizontal to erect, of various 
shapes ; testa crustaceous, smooth; albumen 0 or divided into 
2 small masses ; embryo slender, in a flat spiral, usually green. 
Herbs or shrubs, erect or prostrate, simple or branched, rarely farinose or 
puberulous ; leaves ternate, fleshy, terete or semiterete, rarely almost flaty quite 
entire ; flowers axillary, sessile or subsessile, solitary or clustered. 
Distrip, Species about 40, on sea-shores throughout the world. 
Styles 2; seed horizontal ... ivi ve ans .. (1) cespitosa. 
Styles 3; seed vertical ... ie ee ie ... (2) fruticosa. 
1. 8. cxespitosa (Wolley-Dod in Journ. Bot. 1901, 401) ; herba- 
ceous ? cespitose ; stem much-branched, terete, glabrous ; leaves 
