CJII. CIIENOPOUIACE.E. 503 



p. 6 ; Grah. Cat. p. 171 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Siippl. p. 73; Woodr. in Joui-n. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (189'.)) p. 364 ; Praiu, Beug. PI. p. 88U ; Watt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. v. 1. p. 35U.— 

 Vern. Suraka; Chandanbatva. 



3. KOCHIA, Eoth. 



Herbs or undershrubs usually villous or pubescent, stems sleuder. 

 Leaves alternate, sessile, narrow, entire. Flowers axillary, solitary or 

 clustered, herma[)hrodite or female (rarely only male); bracts 0. 

 Perianth subgl obese ; lobes 5, coriaceous, incurved, closing over the 

 utricle, girt by 5 free or confluent horizontal wings. Stamens 5, usually 

 exserted, inserted at the bottom of the perianth ; anthers large, ovate. 

 Ovary depressed-globose; style slender ; stigmas 2-3, capillary. Utricle 

 depressed, membranous. Seed horizontal, ovoid, or orbicular; testa 

 membranous; albumen scanty; embryo . aniuilar. — Distrib. Europe, 

 temperate Asia, N. & S. Africa, N.W. America ; species about 20. 



1. Kochia indica, Wvjht, Icon. (1852) t. 1791. A tall erect 

 branched annual ; stem and branches more or less woolly, white, striate. 

 Leaves ^1^ by yo-\ ^^-> linear-lanceolate, sessile, acute, pubescent or 

 villous on both sides, base tapering. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2 

 together. Perianth woolly, about -^ in. across when spread out, divided 

 about \ the way down ; segments hooded, mucronate, incurved ; wing 

 broadly ovate, scarious. Utricle thinly membranous ; stigmas 2, fih- 

 form, -^ in. long. Seed yL in. in diam,, orbicular or ovoid, black. Fl. 

 B. L V. 5, p. 11 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1809) p. 364; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 567. — Flowers : Sept. 



SiND : Sibi, Vaidya ! — Distrib. India (N.W. ; W. Peninsula) ; Afghanistan. 



Woodrow in his list of Bombay Plants published in the Journal of tlie Bombay 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. v. 12 (1899) p. 364, gives Kochia scoparia asoecurriug at Sibi. — 1 have 

 seen no specimens from that locality, and there is only 1 sheet of the plant at present 

 in Herb. Kew. contributed by Royle, but without any habitat assigned to it. 



4. ARTHROCNEMUM, Moq. 



Fleshy leafless jointed branching shrubs or herbs. Flowers minute, 

 hermaphrodite, 2-3 together in the axils of scaly bracts, forming sessile 

 cone-like spikes ; bracteoles 2. Perianth ventricose, usually 3-4-gonous, 

 truncate or 3-5-toothed at the apex, at length spongy. Stamen 1 ; 

 anther oblong. Ovary ovoid, narrowed to the tip ; ovule solitary, sub- 

 sessile ; stigmas 2, shortl}^ connate below, subulate. Fruit an ovoid 

 compressed utricle with hardened pericarp, enclosed in the swollen 

 perianth. Seed erect, ovoid, compressed ; testa membranous, smooth ; 

 albumen farinaceous ; embryo dorsal, comma-shaped ; radicle stout, 

 inferior. — Distkib. Saline places in temperate and tropical regions ; 

 species 7 or 8. 



1. Arthrocnemum iiidicum, 2Ioq. Chenopod. £")«(»?. (1840) p. 113, 

 Perennial, sulfruticose, diffuse, glaucous-green; stems usually prostate; 

 branches numerous, with a woody core, erect or ascending, jointed, very 

 fleshy, the joints short, clavate, thick, spongy, truncate, dilated and 



