22 CHENOPODIACEZ. [ CHENOPODIUM- 
Leaves fleshy, } terete ; embryo spiral ; a!bu- 
men none :— 
Sepals not winged . : . : . 3. SuzpDa. 
Sepais transversely winged : 3 . 4. Sausora. 
Stems twining to the right’ leaves flat, membran- 
ous ; bracteoles 2, broad, adnate to the face of 
the perianth ; anthers versatile ; embryo spiral. 5. Basrima. 
1. CHENOPODIUM, Linn. ; FI. Brit. Ind. v, 3. 
Annual or perennial erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves alternate, 
entire lobed or toothed. Flowers minute, 2-sexual, in axillary 
clusters or cymes; bracts and bracteoles none. Perianth usually 
5-lobed ; segments concave, incurved. Stamens 5 or fewer, hypo- 
gynous or almost perigynous, anthers 2-celled. Disk none or 
annular, Ovary depressed-globose, rarely ovoid; stigmas 2-5, 
sometimes united below in a style; ovule solitary, subsessile. 
Fruit a membranous utricle, enclosed in the perianth. Seed usually 
horizontal, testa crustaceous or coriaceous, embryo nearly or quite 
annular, surrounding the floury albumen. Species about 60, in all 
parts of the world. The fruit of some of the species is dimorphic. 
A tall scentless herb; seeds smooth and shining . f. C. allum. 
A low rather fcoetid herb ; seeds rugose, dull-black . 2. C. murale. 
1.C. album, Linn. Sp. Pl. 219 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. u, 58 ; F. B. I. 
v, 3; Duthie Field and Gard. Crops, N. W. Prov. and Oudh, part vit,. 
‘21; Watt LE. D. ; Comm. Prod. Ind. 293 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 416 ; Prain 
Beng. Pl. 878 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 501. C. giganteum, Don Prod. 
74. C. viride, Linn.; Roxb. FI. Ind. ii, 58. C. laciniatum, Linn. ; 
Roxb. l. c. 59. C. purpurascens, Buch.-Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6955.— 
Vern. Bathu, bathu-sdg, chel (Merwara). White Goose-foot. 
An erect herb, 1-10 ft. or more high, green or more or less coated with 
white mealy pubescence, inodorous. Stems angled, often tinged with 
red or purple. Leaves very variable in size and shape, entire toothed 
or lobed ; petioles slender, often equalling or longer than the blade. 
Flowers in clusters, forming compact or loosely panicled spikes, be- 
coming thyrsoid under cultivation. Sepals ~;-y; in. long, oblong- 
lanceolate, keeled on the back, closely investing the thin membranous. 
utricle. Stigmas 2. Seed ~, in. in diam. orbicular, compressed and 
with an acute margin, black and shining. 
