Sueda. | CHENOPODIACE& (Wright). 451 
closely placed, linear, acute, 4—6 lin. long, }—1 lin. wide, flat above, 
convex beneath; spikes about 4 in. long, male in the upper part ; 
bracts 3-4 lin. long, linear, acute ; flowers about 1 lin. in diam. ; 
perianth-lobes 5, fleshy, concave, obtuse ; stamens included ; ovary 
depressed-globose ; styles 2, recurved. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div. ; Paarden Island, Wolley-Dod, 3396! Port Elizabeth 
Div. ; New Brighton, 20 ft., Galpin, 6468 ! 
The stems in the type specimen appear to be almost woody, 
2. 8. fruticosa (Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. cix. and 70, Ie. 9); 
a much-branched evergreen shrub, 2-3 ft. high; branches erect- 
spreading, glabrous; leaves 4—5 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, slightly 
convex above, much so beneath, acute, glaucous, blackish when 
dry ; flowers in axillary clusters of 3, the central flower alone 
perfect ; perianth-lobes 5, nearly 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, 
membranous at the margins ; stamens 5, short; ovary long ovoid ; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 939; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iii. la, 80; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 157 ; 
Baker and CO. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 91. Chenopodium 
Fruticosum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 221. Salsola fruticosa, Linn. Sp. Pl. 
ed. ii. 324; Sibth. Fl. Gr. t. 255; Sowerby, Engl. Bot. t. 635. 
Lerchea obtusifolia, Steud. Nomencl. ed. i. 187, 474; Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 900. L. maritima, y fruticosa, O. Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. Pl. ii. 549. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Burchell! Schlechter ! 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div., Zeyher ! 
CentraL Reeron: Craddock Div. ; without precise locality, Cooper, 584 ! 
WEsTERN Reaion : Namaqualand, Schlechter, 13a! z 
Also in Tropical and North Africa, Europe and through the Orient to Western. 
India, 
IX. SALSOLA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, subtended by 2-3 bracteoles, Perianth 
5-partite ; segments concave, thickened on the back and in front 
furnished with a large horizontal scarious wing, below the wing 
free or connate into an indurated cup. Stamens 5, usually hypo- 
gynous ; anthers obtuse or with the connective variously produced. 
Ovary globose or ovoid ; style long or short ; stigmas 2, spreading, 
subulate ; ovule subsessile or pendulous from the top of a long 
funicle. Uftricle included in the persistent winged perianth. Seed 
usually horizontal, orbicular ; testa membranous ; albumen none ; 
embryo spiral, 
Annual or perennial herbs or undershrubs of various habit ; leaves alternate 
or rarely opposite, sometimes wide sheathing, short, long or scale-like, some- 
times mucronate ; flowers small, solitary in the axils of the upper reduced leaves 
of the branchlets or spicate. 6 
