60 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Salsola. 



leaves small, subsessile, incurved, nearly lanceolate, 

 and with curled margins. Spikes xevy 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. 



SALSOLA. Schreb gen n. 437. 

 Calyx five-leaved. Carol none. Capsules one-seeded. 

 Seed screw-shaped. 



1. S. nudiflora. Willd. 1. 1313. 



Prostrate, perennial. Leaves entire, linear, obtuse, 

 fleshy. Spikes terminal, long, ramous. Flowers fascicled, 

 trigyuous- 



Teling. Rawa-cada. 



It is a native of salt, barren lands near the sea and 

 flow ers the greater part of the year. 



Stems perennial, many, spreading close upon the ground, 

 and often striking root, ramous, 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, leafless. Flowers 

 very nuaierous, 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. 



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, over many parts of the 



