Salsola. | CHENOPODIACE (Wright). 453 
Sour Arrica: without precise locality, Zeyher, 1447 ! 
WESTERN Reaion : Little Namaqualand ; Port Nolloth, Pearson, 571! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
grey ; leaves alternate, densely imbricate and congested into globose 
nodules, triangular-ovate, subacute, } lin. long and wide, glabrous, 
those near the flowers suborbicular and rather thick ; bracts orbi- 
cular, obtuse, keeled, membranous at the margins; flowers solitary ; 
perianth-lobes ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse, pubescent ; anthers ob- 
long-hastate, dorsifixed, produced above into an ovate obtuse 
appendage ; disk obtusely 5-lobed ; stigmas obtuse, compressed ; 
wings of the fruiting perianth inserted just below the apex of the 
lobes, unequal, less than 1 lin. long, thinly membranous, rosy. 
Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. App. iii. 62; Baker & C. H. Wright 
in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. 90. Caroawylon tuberculatum, Moquin in 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 3000a! Zeyher, 1446! 
CENTRAL ReGIon: Beaufort West Div.; on the Karoo near Beaufort West, 
Henderson, 9! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
4. §. aphylla (Linn. f. Suppl. 173); a much-branched shrub, 
reaching a height of 6 ft.; branches slender, terete, not jointed, 
pallid, pubescent; leaves alternate, ovate, minute, amplexicaul, 
densely pubescent; flowers solitary ; bracteoles suborbicular, 
keeled, pubescent; perianth-segments ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 
slightly, pubescent ; filaments dilated below ; anthers oblong, with 
a minute terminal appendage ; disk fleshy, obtusely 5-lobed ; style 
elongate ; stigmas subulate ; wings of the fruiting perianth inserted 
below the middle of the segments, obovate, membranous, yellowish 
or dull purple, the two inner narrower than the others. Drége, 
Zwei Pfl. Documente, 67; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. 
iii. 61; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 89. 
Caroxylon Salsola, Thunb. Diss. Med. Afr. (1785), 8; Moquin in 
Sourn AFrica: without locality, Forsyth! Zeyher, 1445! 
CenrraL Recon: Laingsburg Div.: Witteberg Range, near Matjesfontein, 
Rehmann, 2947 | Beaufort West Div. ; Karoo at Beaufort West, Henderson, 5! 6! 
Albert Diy. ; without precise locality, Cooper, 1383 ! 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; between Buffels River and Pedros 
Kloof, Drége! Van Khynsdorp Div. ; near Rhynsdorp, Schlechter, 8091 ! 
Katanart Reaion: Griqualand West ; between the Kloof Village in the 
Asbestos Mountains and English Drift, Burchell, 2106! Orange River Colony ; 
Mud River Drift, Rekmann, 3612! Transvaal ; near Bloemhof, Burtt-Davy, 1496! 
Vernacular name ‘‘ Brak Ganna”’ (Henderson). 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
Imperfectly known species. 
5. S. bullata (Fenzl ex Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 94, name 
only ; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. App. iii. 62). 
