109. CHENOPOBIACEJE. [6. Su^da. 



usually with more ovate or rounded leaves. The first is Boxhurgh' s tetrandra, 

 the second perhaps always from European seed. Native country unknown 

 but is believed to be derived from S. tetrandra, Stev., which is indigenous in the 

 Caucasus. Commonly cultivated in C.S. 



4. ATRIPLEX, L. 



Herbs or shrubs usually covered with silvery or scurfy small scales. 

 Leaves alternate, rarely also lower opposite. Flowers monoecious or 

 dioecious, sometimes with a solitary 2-sexual intermixed, in clusters 

 which usually form simple or compound spikes. Males without 

 bracteoles, perianth 3-5-partite herbaceous or membranous, stamens 

 3-5. Fern, with 2 broad flat usually triangular sometimes toothed 

 bracteoles, dilated in fruit and forming a 2-valved covering to the 

 utricle ; perianth 0. Stigmas 2. Utricle membranous enclosed in 

 the hardened bracteoles. Seed erect, rarely otherwise. Albumen 

 floury, embryo annular. 



1. A. hortensis, L. Orache ; Mountain Spinach. 



A stout erect annual with striate glabrous stems, ovate obtuse, or 

 upper sometimes triangular, leaves 2-2*5" and slender panicles of 

 greenish flowers, very conspicuous in fruit from the dry venose 

 appressed orbicular-ovate or orbicular bracts -3" long. 



Said to be cultivated in many parts of Bengal, but I find no specimens from our 

 area either at Calcutta or Kew. Fl., Fr. Sept. 

 Leaves not mealj", lower sometimes triangular-cordate and sinuate-denticulate. 



5. SALICORNIA, L. 



Fleshy leafless jointed shrubs or herbs with minute 2-sexual flowers, 

 2-3 together sunk in pits at the joints of the branch-like spikes. 

 Perianth turbinate or flask-shaped, 3-4-lobed or -toothed, spongy in 

 fruit. Stamens 1-2. Utricle included, membranous, stigmas subu- 

 late. Seed erect, compressed, testa hispid with hooked hairs, albumen 



0. Embryo conduplicate, radicle inferior, parallel to the folds of the 

 cotyledons. 



1. S. brachiata, Boxb. 



An erect branched undershrub 12-18" high. Branches many 

 decussate with the joints clavate or showing an expansion at the tip, 

 the floriferous branches or spikes very fleshy linear-spindle-shaped 

 (not clavate) at the short joints, with 3-nate flowers on each side of 

 all the nodes. Stamen 1 to each flower, extruded. Stigma 2-cleft. 



On saline marshes or ground covered by the tides. Common near Calcutta, Kew 

 Herb. ! and the Chilka Lake, Cal. Herb. ! Probably also in the intermediate 

 Cuttack district. Fl. August. 



6. SUiEDA, Forsk. 



Herbs or shrubs, stem not jointed. Leaves fleshy usually terete. 

 Flowers minute, axillary and running out into spikes, usually 2-sexual, 

 bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Perianth short, 5-lobed or -partite, 

 segments sometimes gibbous or subulate, equal or unequal. Stamens 



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