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;, (Seeds black, punctate, not hairy S. glauca. 



1 Seeds greyish or greenish, hairy 3 



o (Plant erect or suberect, ; hairs of seeds stout, conical... S. frtiticosa. 



(Mature plant prostrate ; hairs of seed very slender 4* 



[Branches freely rooting; lateral flowers smaller than the middle one 



J S. i^crennis. 



1 Branches not rooting, plant leaving the ground by a single stem ; 



\ flowers nearly equal in size S. lignosa. 



(Plant erect (or pseudo-procumbent owing to being toppled over by 

 5- the tides, &c.) 6 



(plant prostrate or procumbent 9 



'Terminal flowering spikes long (up to 3-5 cm.) ; flowers nearly equal 



in size ; stamens visually 1, rarely 2 S. europcea. 



Branches fastigiate S. eurojpoia iorms, stricta. 



Branches spreading S. europcea iorma patuhi. 



I Terminal flowering spikes short (usually less than 1 cm.) ; lateral 



V flowers much smaller than the central one or absent 7 



„ (Flowering spikes acute, tapering; stamens 2 S. ramosissima. 



(Flowering spikes blunt ; stamen 1 8 



{Branches curved, graceful ; flowering segments almost globular ; 

 hairs of seeds spirally coiled S. pusilla. 

 Branches simple, subequal, parallel, stout, and rigid ...8. gracillima. 

 Much branched ; segments freely disarticulating ; lateral flowers 

 absent S. disarticulata. 



q (Plants simply branched 10 



I Plants very freely branched 11 



/ Plant prosti'ate ; terminal flowering spikes cylindrical, stout, obtuse, 



long (25-40 cm.) ; flowers nearly equal in size S. Oliveri. 



10 Plant procumbent or ascending; terminal flowering spikes short 

 (1-2 cm. or less) ; lateral flowers about half as big as the 



V central one S. Smithiana. 



1 Terminal flowering spikes cylindrical, obtuse ; branches making 

 wide angles (about 'd(f) with the stem S. prostrata. 

 Terminal flowering spikes tapering, very acute; branches making 

 acute angles with the stem S. appressa. 



Description of Plate 514. 

 Drawn by Mr. E. W. Ilunnybun for the New British Flora. 



(a) Salicornia disarticulata Moss (natural size), (b) Flowering spike (x 6). 

 (c) Seeds (x 6). 



Specimens of this plant have been sent to the British and the Watson 

 Exchange Clubs. 



ALABASTEA DIVERSA.— Part XX. 

 By Spencer le M. Moore, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



(Concluded from p. 158.) 



1. New or Eare Tropical African Plants. 



eubiace.e. 



Velvitsia calycina Hiern, Cat. Welw. PI. p. 771. In a large 



collection of Mr. Gossweiler's Angola plants received at the British 



Museum in 1907 are flowering and early fruiting specimens from 



Forte Princeza Amelia (no. 2124), which seem to be conspecific 



with Velvitsia calycina Hiern. Of this latter, a Welwitsch plant, 



