314 C. CHENOPODIER. 
mens 5, exserted, in the base of the calyx; anthers ovate. 
Styles 2, setaceous, much exserted, divaricate. Fruit as in 
Kochia.—DC. Prod. xiii. pt.-2. p. 134. 
Pubescent, villous or silvery herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, 
sessile, narrow-linear, flat or semiterete. Flowers axillary and terminal.— 
E. diffusa (Chenolea diffusa, Th.), our only species, is a decumbent, littoral 
plant, with silvery foliage and axillary flowers. Common on various parts 
of the coast. 
7. WALLINIA, Mog. 
Flowers bisexual, 3-bracted. Calyx deeply urceolate, 5-fid ; 
segments herbaceous, entire, unchanged. Stamens 5, in the 
base of the calyx; filaments compressed ; anthers sagittate. 
Ovary ovate; styles 4, short, approaching in pairs, linear- 
clavate. Fruit nut-like, ellipsoid, scarcely compressed, 8- 
ribbed, sitting on a callus, surrounded by the sepals ; pericarp 
herbaceous, closely adhering to the seed. Testa of seed bony ; 
embryo subannular.—DC. Prod. xii. pt. 2. p. 148. 
An erect, branching herb, with alternate, entire, glabrous, fleshy leaves. 
Flowers sessile, minute, glomerate, dispersed in dense, slender, simple, leaf- 
less spikes. Bracts membranous, acute, persistent. 
8. SALICORNIA, Tourn. 
Flowers bisexual or polygamous, not scaly, immersed in 
hollows of the axis of inflorescence. Calyx bag-like, toothed 
at margin, at length thickened, and furnished with a minute, 
transverse wing. Stamens 1-2, hypogynous. Ovary ovate ; 
styles 2, subulate, connate at base. Fruit utricular, com- 
pressed, included in the closed, minutely-winged calyx; peri- 
carp thin, hispidulous, adhering to the seed. Seed vertical ; 
embryo conduplicate, thick, green ; cotyledons dilated; albu- 
men eccentric, small.— DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p. 144. 
Herbs or halfshrubs, growing in salt ground or by the muddy seashore, 
with jointed stems, leafless or minutely leafy, succulent and glabrous. 
Branches opposite. Joints truncate, the uppermost bearing flowers.— 
S. herbacea is common on the Cape flats, ete. 
9. ARTHROCNEMUM, Mog. 
Character of Salicornia, except: Calyx ventricose, truncate 
or 3-5-toothed, never appendicled. Fruit enclosed in the 
open, inflated, fleshy calyx ; pericarp membranous, free from 
seed. Embryo half-annular, greenish ; albumen central and 
lateral, copious or secanty.—DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p. 150. 
Plants, with the aspect of Salicornia.—A. fruticosum, Moq., grows abun- 
dantly at Hout Bay and other parts of the coast. 
