26 ' CHENOPODIACE. [SaLsoxa. 
hypogynous. Fruit an ovoid or orbicular fleshy or membranous 
utricle ; stigmas 2 or 3, subulate or linear. Seed usually horizontal, 
testa membranous, albumen none, embryo spiral.—Species about 
40, in Temp. Asia, Australia and N. America. 
S. feetida, Del. Fl. Zgypt. Ill. (1812) n. 310 ; F. B.I.v, 18 ; Watt 
E. D.; Comm. Prod. Ind. 114; Gamb. Man. 552 ; Brand. Ind. 
Trees 519 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 507. 8. indica, Herb. Royle.—Vern. 
Lana, shora, gora-lana. 
A large much-branched hoary shrub upto4ft. ormore inheight. Stem 
stout ; branches densely crowded, slender. Leaves minute, sub- 
globose, fleshy ; the floral ones imbricate and forming very short 
cylindric spikes ; bracteoles fleshy, 35 in. long, broadly ovate or 
orbicular. Perianth silvery-white, not exceeding the bracteoles, 
oblong, obtuse; wings symmetrical, rounded, membranous and 
transparent, margins ‘often overlapping. Stigmas 2, large, re- 
curved. 
Found in the districts of Delhi and Agra (Royle, Munro, etc.). Flowers 
in the cold season. DistrRis.: Plains of Punjab and Sind ; also in 
Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and westwards te Persia, Arabia and N. 
Africa. This plant is much used in the preparation of barilla (car- 
bonate of soda). The branchlets often bear globose villous galls }-% 
in. in diam. ; these latter are covered by linear leaves somewhat re- 
sembling the involucre of acomposite. ‘The plant is described as 
having a strong odour of rotten fish. It is eaten greedily by camels. 
5. BASELLA, Linn. ; FI. Brit. Ind. »v, 20. 
Much-branched twining fleshy herbs. Leaves alternate, broad,. 
entire. Flowers in spikes, 2-sexual, white, red or violet; bracts 
minute, caducous ; bracteoles 2, united into a 2-lipped cup and 
adnate to the perianth. Perianth fleshy, 5-fid.; at length berry- 
like ; lobes short, incurved. Stamens 5, on the mouth of the 
perianth-tube ; filaments short, erect in bud; anthers versatile, 
globose. Styles 3, stigmas 2, linear-clavate, papillose on the inner 
side, ovule subsessile. Fruit. a globose utricle, included within 
the fleshy perianth; pericarp thin, adnate to the seed. Seed 
erect, sub-globose, testa crustaceous, albumen scanty, embryo: 
plano-spiral; cotyledons large, thin, involute.—Species 2, in Asia 
and Trop. Africa, elsewhere cultivated in the tropics. 
