ChenopodiuTii] cii. chenopodiace^. 899 



HuiLLA. — In places neglected after cultivation, about LopoUo, 

 plentiful, in company with Moiisonia bijioni DC. ( Welw. herb, no. 1606 ; 

 ante, p. 108) ; fl. and fr. Jan. and Feb. 1860. No. 6317. 



2. BETA Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 52. 

 1. B. vulgaris L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 222 (1753). 



B. maritima L. Sp. PI., edit. 2, p. 322 (1762). B. procumbens 

 Sm. in Hornem. Hort. Hafn. Suppl. p. 31 (1819) ; J. A. Schmidt, 

 Beitr. Fl. Cap Verd. p. 171 (1852). 



Cape de Yerde Islands.— In sandy places in the island of St. 

 Vincent ; fr. Jan. 1861. No. 6325. 



3. ATRIPLEX Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 53. 

 1. A. paludosa E. Br. Prodr. p. 406 (1810). 



Mossamedes. — A much branched undershrub or almost a shrub, 

 6 to 8 ft. high ; branches patent, elongated, subscandent ; leaves some- 

 what fleshy, whitish-lepidote. In bushy brackish places about Caroca, 

 about 13 miles distant from the ocean, plentiful, somewhat climbing 

 among Tamarix oripjitaUs Forsk. (Welw. herb. no. 1086 ; ante^ p. 55) 

 and Gymnosporia (cf. G. senegahnsis Loesen. ; Welw. herb. nos. 1267 

 and 1362 ; a??7e, p. 145) ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 6327. 



Our plant is dioecious, and agrees fairly well with the type specimens 

 of Brown's species in the National Herbarium. 



4. AETHROCNEMUM Moq. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 65. 

 1. A. macrostachyum Moris & Delporte in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 



4, ii. p. 377 (1854). 



Salicornia glaum Delile, Fl. Egypt lUustr. p. 49 (1812). 



5. macrostachya Moric. Fl. Vinet. p. 2 (1820); Guss. Fl. Sic. p. 

 13. t. 4 (1829). A. fruticosum, y. macrostachyum, & glaucum, 

 Moq. Chenopod. Mon. Enum. p. 112 (1840). A. glaucum Ung.- 

 Sternb. in Atti Congr. Bot. Firenze, p. 283 (1876). 



Ambriz. — At the river On90 (? 16 Nov. 1853), without fl. or fr. 

 Doubtfully referred to this species. No. 6330- 



LoANDA, ETC. — A decumbeut undershrub, remarkably gregarious, 

 partly constituting broad round tracts of the shore 6 to 20 fathoms in 

 diameter, intermixed with Halimum {cf. Welw. herb, an. 2382-2390); 

 stems prostrate, woody, scarcely jointed but nodulose; branches and 

 branchlets opposite, erect; joints cylindrical, mostly ^ in. long, glaucous, 

 blood-red at the base and apex, blunt, emarginate ; spikes central on 

 the branchlets, an inch long, torulose, scarcely thicker than jV in., 

 with joints yV in. long, in old age dryly spongy ; seeds ellipsoidal, 

 irregularly trigonous, scarcely 2^4 in. long, shortly beaked, chestnut- 

 brown, smooth. The seeds agree with this genus in respect of the 

 embryo. In sandy maritime places at the mouth of the river San9a 

 (Mossul), and at Praia da Zamba grande to the south-west of Loanda, 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. end of Nov. 1853. No. 6331. 



This is probably the plant referred to as A. indicumhy Welwitsch in 

 Ann. Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. No. 24 (May 1856), p. 253. n. 24 ; he states 

 that it abounds in soda. 



Mossamedes. — A perennial, fleshy, green-purplish, densely caespitose 

 herb, the clumps hemispherical and 2 to 3 ft. in diameter. In gravelly 

 places near Boca de Giraul, very plentiful, in company with Cressa 

 cretica L. {ante, p. 724) ; fl. July 1859. No. 6328. 



