60 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Salsola, 
leaves small, subsessile, incurved, nearly lanceolate, 
and with curled margins. Spikes very long. Flowers 
rather remote, always in pairs, Calyx ; leaflets equal, 
without teeth, or process of any kind; margins mem- 
branaceous. Filaments inserted into a ring round the 
flower. Styles from two to four, short. 
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SALSOLA. Schreb. gen. n. 437. 
Calyx five-leaved. Corol none. Capsules one-seeded. 
Seed screw-shaped. 
“1S. nudiflora, Willd. 1. 1313. 
Prostrate, perennial. Leaves entire, linear, obtuse, 
fleshy. Spikes terminal, long, ramous. Flowers fascicled, 
trigynous. 
Teling. Rawa-cada. 
Itis a native of salt, barren lands near the ‘sea and 
flowers the greater part of the year. _ nieg 
Stems perennial, many, spreading close Pe the dein, 
and often striking root, ramots, extremities of the 
branches ascending; young parts smooth, and coloured 
reddish. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, fleshy, obtuse, 
smooth, generally about half an inch long. Spikes ter- 
minal, erect, very long, compound, Jeafless. Flowers 
very numerous, collected in little fascicles. ‘Filaments 
inserted into the bottom of the divisions of the calyx. 
Styles three, spreading. Seeds smooth, horizontal, oval, 
beaked, covered by a thin membrane, and that by the 
permanent calyx. 2 
This plant is very common in many places near the 
sea; the natives gather it for fuel only. The taste is 
strongly saline, no doubt it would yield good Fossil 
alkali. How many valuable sources of wealth, and 
happiness lie lost to the world, ce key parts of the 
