4o8 Chenopodiaceo', [Sucrda. 



The figure of Wight represents the plant in flower ; when in fruit, 

 the spikes are much broader and cone-like. The Ceylon plant is appa- 

 rently referred in F^l. B. Ind.* \o A. giauci/m, Ung.-Sternb., which I do 

 not clearly distinguish by the description given. 



3. SAI.ICOIINZA, L. 



Semi-shrubby, leafless, fleshy, jointed, fl. minute, bisexual, 

 3 together, sunk in excavations at base of joints forming long 

 spikes; fl. and fruit much as in ArtJirocnei)iuin ; seed solitary, 

 compressed, hispid, embryo bent double, endosperm o. — 

 Sp. 8 ; I in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. brachiata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. {ed. Carey &^ Wall.) i. 82 (1824). 



Thw. Enum. 443. C. P. 3855. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 12. Wight, Ic. t. 738. 



Stem 8-12 in., more or less erect, very much branched, 

 joints \-\ in., rather slender, slightly dilated and 2-toothed 

 at top; spikes 2-3 in., slender, cylindrical; seed pale brown, 

 hispid with white hair. 



Seacoast, in places occasionally flooded by the tide in the dry district; 

 rather rare(?). Near Jaffna; Hambantota and Kirinda, round the lewayas 

 (salt-pans). Fl. December-February. 



Also in Peninsular India. 



Distinguished from Arthrocneviiim by its more slender erect habit 

 and much narrower fl. -spikes. 



4. SU.SIDA, Forsk. 

 Shrubby (? sometimes annual), 1. alt., fleshy, fl. minute, 

 usually bisexual, sessile, with 3 bracts at base, in axillary 

 clusters; perianth-segm. 5, inflexed at apex; stam. 5, short; 

 styles 2 or 3 ; utricle membranous, seed black, polished, 

 embryo coiled in a flat spiral, endosperm scanty or o. — 

 Sp. 40 ; 6 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Stem, erect; spikes slender, la.x; bracts entire. 



L. linear; floral ones short . . . i. S. MONOlC.\. 



L. narrowly linear ; floral ones very short . 2. S. MARITIMA. 

 Stem, prostrate; spikes dense, crowded; 



bracts serrate 3. S. NUDi FLORA. 



I. S. monoica, Forsk. Fl. .Egypt.-Arab. 70 (i775)- 

 S. indica, Thw. Enum. 246 (.? Moq.). Salsola indica, Willd., Moon 

 Cat. 21. C. P. 2260. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 13. Wight, Ic. t. 1792 (good). 



A small erect bush, branches numerous, ascending, marked 



* Thw. Enum. 246 is also there quoted by error under Salicornia 

 brachiata. 



