452 CHENOPODIACE (Wright). [Salsola. 
Disrris. Species about 40, chiefly in temperate Asia, North and Tropical Africa, 
1 in temperate North and South America and 1 in Australia. 
Burchell’s 2896 collected on the lower part of Bruintjes Hoogte, Somerset 
Division, probably represents an undescribed species of Salsola, but is in young 
fruit only. 
Flowers in spikes... sas ae ee aa ... (1) foetida. 
Flowers solitary : 
Leaves 2-3 lin, long, 1 lin. wide, tomentose ... ... (2) Zeyheri. 
Leaves 4 lin. long and wide, glabrous. ... iy ... (8) tuberculata. 
Leaves minute, densely pubescent se ae ... (4) aphylla. 
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Centrat Ruaion: Graaff Reinet Div. ; Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 596 ! 
Also in North and Tropical Africa, Western Asia and India. 
Zeyher’s 1443, which bears old flowers only, somewhat resembles S. fetida, 
Del., but differs in having longer, more acute bracts. Its flowers have a cup- 
shaped disk from which 5 complanate filaments spring. 
2. §. Zeyheri (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. App. iii. 62); an 
erect much-branched shrub; branches terete, not articulate, 
pubescent, ashy grey ; leaves alternate, 2-3 lin. long, about 1 lin. © 
wide, thick and fleshy, concave above, broadly keeled beneath, 
tomentose; flowers subsolitary ; bracteoles triangular-ovate oF 
ovate-orbicular, obtuse, thick, very concave, rather tomentose ; 
perianth-segments lanceolate, rather obtuse, villous on the back ; 
filaments dilated below; anthers oblong-hastate, with a minute 
terminal yellow appendage ; disk fleshy, with 5 entire very obtuse 
lobes; style elongate; stigmas lanceolate-subulate, compressed ; 
wings of the fruiting perianth inserted near the base, membranous, 
unequal, 14-2} lin. long, 3 obovate-reniform and 3-4 lin. wide, 
2 lanceolate and }-1 lin. long. Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, FI. 
Trop. Afr. vi. i. 89. 8S. aphylla, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1. 
