502 cm. CHEKOPODIACE^. 



orbicular, smooth, shining, with an obtuse margin. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 4 ; 

 Wight, Icon. t. 1786 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 73 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Xat. V. 12 (1899) p. 364 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 879 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 267. — Flowers : Aug.-Apr. 



A weed usually occurring in cultivated ground, scarcely indigenous in the Bombay 

 Presidency, but apparently so in S. India. Deccan : Poona, a weed in gardens, 

 ('oo/cel, Woodrow\, Kaniikar'. — Distrib. India (Bengal, Silhet, S. India); widely 

 spread in the Old World. 



2. ATRIPLEX, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs usually mealy. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite). 

 Flowers small, monoecious or polygamo-dioecions. clustered, the sexes 

 often mixed, in axillary sessile fascicles or in simple or panicled spikes ; 

 bracts 0; bracteolesin male flowers 0, in female flowers 2, flat, accrescent, 

 dilated in fruit and forming a 2-valved covering to it. Male flowees : 

 Perianth 3-5-partite ; sepals oblong or obovate, obtuse. Stamens 3-5, 

 inserted at the base of the perianth ; filaments free or connate below ; 

 anthers didymous. Ovary rudimentary or (rarely perfect). Female 

 FLOWERS : Perianth 0. Disk 0. Ovary ovoid or depressed-globose ; ovule 

 oblique or vertical ; stigmas 2, subulate or filiform, connate below. Fruit 

 a u)embranous utricle rarely adnate to the seed, enclosed in the enlarged 

 bracteoles. Seed erect or inverted, suspended from a long funicle or 

 rarely (in hermaphrodite flowers only) horizontal ; embryo surrounding 

 floury albumen. — Disteib. Species about 100, in most temperate and 

 tropical regions. 



1. Atriplex Stocksii, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 2, No. 4 (1859) p. 73. 

 Sln'ubby, perennial, 8-2U in. high, monoecious, much branched, prostrate 

 or suberect ; stem and branches woody, terete, glabrous, white. Leaves 

 1-1 by ^f in., rather fleshy, elliptic, obloug, orbicular or somewhat 

 obovate, obtuse, smooth, glabrous, whitish or glaucous, base acute ; 

 petioles 1 in. long. Male flowers in axillary clusters or short spikes. 

 Fruiting bracteoles of female flowers reaching |- in. in diara., orbicular 

 or broadly ovate, labyrinthically veined, cuneate at the base, swollen and 

 thickened above the utricle. Seed suborbicular, compressed, pale-brown, 

 smooth. FL B. I. v. 4, p. 7 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 364. Atriplex repens, Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 12d {not of 

 lioth). Ohione StocJcsii, Wight, Icon. t. 1789; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 212.— 

 Flowers : Dec- Jan. 



Gujarat : common near the sea, Dalcell cf- Gibson ; Broach Collectorate, Balsell .' ; 

 Verawal, Woodrowl Sini> : Stocks, Ab'2\ ; Bhola Furanl ; Karachi, Vicaryl, Cooke \; 

 Hydrabad, Cookel — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



Atriplex hortensis, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 10.^3. A stout erect 

 polygamous succulent aiuiual often tinged with red or purple. Leaves 

 not mealy, the lower deltoid, the up])er usually ovate-lanceolate. 

 Fruiting bracteoles thin, nearly free, elliptic or orbicular, reticulately 

 veined, obtuse, sometimes mucronate. 



The origin of the plant is unknown, it being found only under cultivation or in 

 cultivated ground. It ia cultivated as a spinach more or less tliroughouf India and 

 also in Europe, where it is known as Orailic or Mountain Spinach. Fl. B. I. v. 5, 



