508 cm. CHENOPOBIACE.E. 



subtransparent, wliite, sbiniug. Ovary ovoid or subglobose ; stigmas 2, 

 large, recurved. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. IS ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1899) p. 3G.5 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 2, p. 392. 

 Salsola spinescens, Wigbt, Icon. t. 1795 {iiot of Moq.). — Flowers: Dec. 

 Veen. Ldnan, Ellalcura. 



SiND : Stocks; Sukkur, Coohe\ 



The branches often bear globoso fulFous-villous galls, the wjrk of inseets, sur- 

 rounded by linear or linear-lanceolate ('ulvous-villous leaves which resemble somewhat 

 the involucre of a Composite. I find in a note made by me when I collected tlie plant 

 in Snkknr in 1891, that the fresl] flowers had an odor of rott^^n fish. — Distrib. India 

 (I'anjab, W. Peninsula) ; Belucliistan, Persia, Arabia, N. Africa. 



9. HALOCHARIS, I\I()q. 



Annual usually small herbs, prostrate or suljerect, hispidiilons ; 

 branches often verticillate, not jointed. Leaves alternate, sessile, lleshy, 

 tipped with rigid hairs. Flowers hermaphrodite, axillary, solitary ; 

 bracteoles 2. Perianth-segments 5, lanceolate, membranous, hyaline, 

 nerveless, unaltered in fruit. Staniens inserted on a fleshy disk ; 

 iilaments linear; anthers linear, the cells narrow, parallel, separate, 

 the connective produced into a sessile or stipitate flattened or inflated 

 appendage; staminodes 0. Utricle included in the perianth, broadly 

 ovoid or orbicular, compressed, membranous, rugulose ; stigmas 2, 

 elongate, subulate. Seed inverse, lenticular, compressed; testa mem- 

 branous ; albumen ; embryo piano-spiral. — Distkib. Persia, Afghan- 

 istan, Belucliistan, India; species 5. 



1. Halocharis sulphurea, Moq^. in DO. Prodr. v. 13, ]iart 2 (1849) 

 p. 201 m part. An erect branched herb of a peculiar bluish-grey color 

 (Aitchison), 3-18 in. high, hispid with long bristles. Leaves |-| in. 

 long, linear, subtrigonous, ciliate with long hairs. Flowers white 

 ( Wuodi'oiv) or light-purple (Aitchison), in capitate clusters which are 

 spicate on short branches ; bracteoles linear or linear-lanceolate, keeled, 

 very hirsute, as long as the perianth-segments. Perianth-segments 

 ■1- in. long, lanceolate, membranous, the outer densely woolly. Anther- 

 cells separate, ^-^ in. long ; pollen yellow ; ap])endage as long as and 

 broader than the anther-cells, erect, ovoid-oblong, inflated, white ( Wood- 

 roiv) or sulphur-yellow (Boisaier). 



Woodrow, who has had an opportunity of examining the fresh plant 

 which he collected at Sibi (Upper Sind) and of which there are 2 sheets 

 in Herb. Kew., describes the flowers and the appendage of the anthers 

 as white. Fl. B. 1. v. 5, p. 19 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 4, p. 975 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 305.— Flowers : 8ept.-0ct. 



SiNi) : Eendli (Sibi districts), Woodrow I — Distriii. India (Panjab) ; Pcrsi.-i, 

 Assyria. 



10. BASELLA, Linn. 



A mnch-braiu-hed twining fleshy glabrous herb. Leaves alternate, 

 broad, entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, sessile, spicate; bracts minute, 

 caducous ; bracteoles 2, connate iu a 2-lipped cup and adnate to the 

 perianth. Perianth fleshy, 5-fid, becoming at length berry-like in fruit; 

 lobes sliort, incurved. Stamens 5, inserted on the mouth of the 

 perianth-lube; Iilaments short, erect in bud; anthers versatile, (^vary 



