C. CHENOPODIE®. als 
3. ATRIPLEX, Gertn. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious.—Males ebracteate. Calyx 
3-5-parted, not appendicled, Stamens 3-5, hypogynous ; an- 
thers subrotund.  Pistil rudimentary.—Female usually 2- 
bracteate, the bracts in fruit dilated, erect, appressed, distinct 
or united at base. Calyx 0. Staminodia and nectary 0. 
Styles 2, filiform, united at base. Fruit compressed, enclosed 
in the bracts; pericarp very thin, separate from the seed. 
Seed vertical, lenticular; embryo annular, peripheric.—DC. 
Prod. xii. pt. 2. p. 90. 
Herbs or shrubs of salt ground and waste places, throughout the tempe- 
rate zones, often scurfy or mealy. Leaves alternate, petioled, mostly 
hastate or triangular, toothed or entire. Flowers crowded in glomeruled 
spikes.—Several species. 
4. OBIONE, Gertn. 
Flowers monecious or dicecious.—Males ebracteate. Calyx 
4-5-parted, not appendicled. Stamens 4-5, hypogynous; an- 
thers ovate.—Female 2-bracteate ; bracts more or less united, 
at length inflated, hardened or corky, connivent. Calyx 0. 
Styles 2, setaceo-filiform, united below. Fruit compressed, 
enclosed in the capsule-like bracts; pericarp very thin, mem- 
branous. Seed vertical, ovate, beaked; embryo annular.— 
DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p. 106. 
Herbs or shrubs, mostly scaly, scurfy or mealy, of a pale or whitish 
colour. Leaves alternate or opposite, ovate or rhomboid, entire or den- 
ticled. Flowers crowded in glomerules. Chiefly known from Aériplex 
by its inflated bracts, and by habit.— QO. portulacoides, a widely-dispersed 
species, occurs at the Cape. 
5. KOCHTA, Mog. 
Flowers bisexual or abortively female, ebracteate. Calyx 
urceolate, 5-fid, the lobes at length expanding dorsally in 
membranous, transverse wings. Stamens 5, mostly exserted, 
in the base of the calyx; anthers ovate. Ovary depressed- 
globose; styles 2, elongate-filiform, divaricate. Fruit de- 
pressed, enclosed in the ray-winged calyx ; pericarp membra- 
nous. Seed horizontal; embryo annular.—DC. Prod. xin. pt. 2. 
p. 180. 
Villous or pubescent herbs or halfshrubs. Stems slender. Leaves alter- 
nate, sessile, terete or flat. Flowers axillary, solitary or few together, the 
female winged, the bisexual imperfectly so.—2 Cape species. 
6. ECHINOPSILON, Mog. . 
Flowers bisexual or abortively female, ebracteate. Calyx 
urceolate, 5-fid, the lobes at length bearing dorsally 5 spine-like, 
spreading appendices (or sometimes minute tubercles). Sta- 
