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cm. CliENOPODlACE^, 501 



embryo nearly or quite annular, surrounding floury albumen. — Distkib. 

 Species about 50, throughout the world. 



Scentless or slightly foetid eglandular herbs; stigmas 2; 

 embryo perfectly annular ; margin of seed acute. 



A tall scentless herb, sometimes 10 ft. high; seeds smooth, 



shining 1. C. allium. 



A low slightly foetid herb 6-1.5 in. high ; seeds rugose, dull. 2. C. murale. 

 A strongly aromatic glandular herb; stigmas 5; embryo 



incompletely annular ; margin of seed obtuse 3. C. ainhrosioidcs. 



1. Chenopodium album, Zm)i, ySf/j).P?. (1753) p. 219. Herbaceous, 

 1-10 ft. high, erect or ascending, mealy or green or reddish, inodorous : 

 stems often striped. Leaves very variable in size and shape, reaching 

 in cultivated plants souietimes 6 in. long (the upper leaves smaller and 

 more entire than the lower), oblong, rhombic, deltoid or lanceolate, 

 obtuse or acute, entire, toothed or irregularly lobulate ; petioles long, 

 slender. Flowers in clusters forming complex or lax paniculate often 

 mealy spikes, which in cultivated forms become thyrsoid. Sepals ■^^- 

 jV in. long, oblong-lanceolate, keeled, closing over the thinly membranous 

 utricle. Stigmas 2. Seed J^ in, in diam., orbicidar, compressed, with 

 an acitte margin, smooth, shining: embryo completely annular. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 5, p. 3 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 364 ; Prain, 

 Beng. PL p. 878 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 265. Chenopocl'mm 

 viride, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 219 ; Grab. Cat. p. 171. — Flowers : Nov. 

 Veen. ChdJcvut. 



A weed occurring chiefly in cultivated ground, very common in the Deccan, also 

 cultivated as a pot-herb. — Distrib. Ubiquitous. 



2. Chenopodium murale, Linn. >Sp. PI. (1753) p. 219. Herba- 

 ceous, 6-15 in. high, erect or ascending, branched, glabrous or nearly so, 

 somewhat foetid. Leaves bright-green, l-j— 1 by |— 3 in., deltoid-ovate, 

 acute or obtuse, irregularly lobulate and toothed (often sharply), base 

 cuneate ; petioles |-3 in. long. Flowers clustered, in short dense or lax 

 cymes forming axillary I'acemes or panicles. Sepals y^g- in. long, oblong, 

 subacute, closing over the fruit, scarcely keeled. Stigmas 2. Seed 

 orbicular, jj; in. in diam., with an acute margin, compressed, rugose, 

 dull-black ; embryo completely annular. Fl. B. 1. v. 5, p. 4 ; Fl. Dan. 

 V. 12 (1834) t. 2048 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 407 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 364 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 268.— 

 Flowers : Aug. 



Scarcely indigenous in the Bombay Presidency. Deccan : Poona, along the Railwnj- 

 bank of the S. M. Eailway, Cooke'. S. M. Country: Dharwar, Woodrow. — Distrib. 

 Ubiquitous. 



3. Chenopodium ambrosioides, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 219. 

 A tall erect much-branched highly aromatic herb with a camphoraceous 

 odor, pidaerulous and glandular, not mealy ; stem and branches striate, 

 more or less glandular-pubescent. Leaves often with glands, lh-^\ by 

 i-1 hi., oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, sinuate-dentate, the upper 

 leaves almost entire, base tapering, running down into a short often 

 obscure petiole. Flowers minute, clustered, forming slender axillary 

 and terminal simple or paniculate leafy spikes, sometimes polygamous. 

 Sepals orbicidar-ovate, concave, obtuse, not keeled, closing over the 

 fruit. Stigmas usually 5. Utricle membranous. Seed ^^ in. in diam., 



