6. Su^DA.] 109. CHENOPODIACEJE. 



5 short. Utricle included, membranous or spongy ; ""stigmas 2-5, 

 minute, subulate, recurved. Seed erect, oblique or horizontal, with 

 crustaceous or coriaceous testa ; albumen scanty or 0. Embryo 

 piano -spiral. 



Undershrul). Styles 3 1. vtidiflora. 



Herb. Styles 2 2. marithna. 



1. S. nudiflora, Moq. Syn, Salsola nudiflora, Willd. 



A woody branched undershrub 10-15" high with branches spreading 

 close to the ground, fleshy leaves •25-*5" long and very numerous 

 flowers in clusters running out into terminal often panicled spikes 

 bracteate in the lower parts. Styles 3. 



Salt, barren lands near the sea from Calcutta southwards. Chilka Lake, Cal. 

 Herb. ! Fl. May- Aug. 



2. S. maritima, Dumort. Syn. S. indica, Roxb. 



A much more slender plant than the last scarcely woody below, 

 with more slender leaves -5-1" long by -05" broad, semiterete, fleshy. 

 Inflorescence leafy to the top. Styles 2. 



Salt marshes near the sea. From the Sunderbans southwards, but there is no 

 actual specimen from our area. Fl. May. 



7. BASELLA, L. 



A fleshy twiner with broad entire leaves and small white or coloured 

 2-sexual flowers in spikes, each with a small green bract and 2 adnate 

 fleshy bracteoles. Perianth fleshy, 5-fid, becoming baccate in fruit, 

 lobes short incurved. Stamens 5 perigynous, anthers versatile. 

 Utricle globose thin, adhering to the seed, included in the fleshy 

 perianth, stigmas 3. Seed erect, subglobose with crustaceous testa 

 and scanty albumen. Embryo piano-spiral with large thin involute 

 cotyledons. 



1. B. rubra, L. Utu ara, K. ; Pui, H. 



Stems fleshy usually red. Leaves ovate to orbicular, often cordate 

 or with straight or rounded base, 1*5" each way or sometimes attain- 

 ing 5-7" in length, shining, slightly acuminate. Petiole -5-1". 

 Spikes -5-3" long with fleshy rhachis. Flowers pinkish or purple, 

 urceolate. Bracteoles coloured like the perianth. Fruit "25" diam. 

 ovoid, black, with deep purple juice. 



Grown on trellises and hedges throughout Chota Nagpur ! Fl., Fr. March-Dec. 

 A pot-herb. 



FAM. 110. PHYTOLACCACEiE. 



Shrubs or herbs with alternate entire leaves and small or stipules. 

 Flowers mostly small in racemes, bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Tepals 

 4-5 imbricate, sepaloid or petaloid, sometimes unequal. Stamens 4, 

 equal in number and alternate with the tepals or twice as many, 

 rarely more, subhypogynous or hypogynous, with usually persistent 

 filaments and deciduous anthers. Carpels 1 or more, free or connate, 



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