Atriplex. } CHENOPODIACE. 585 
all sides. Leaves shortly petiolate, }-$in. long, oblong or obovate, 
obtuse, entire or sinuate-toothed, very thick and fleshy. Flowers 
small, moncecious. Males fascicled at the tips of the branches, 
ebracteate. Perianth 5-partite ; segments oblong, obtuse. Stamens 
5, exserted; filaments filiform, connate at the very base. Females 
solitary or 2 together in the axils of the cauline leaves, minute, 
sessile. Fruiting-bracts combined into a shortly 2-lipped fleshy 
urceolate cup. Perianth wanting. Styles 2, filiform. Utricle 
included within the bracts, orbicular, compressed, its edges opposite 
to the bracts, not parallel, as is usual in the genus; pericarp very 
thin. Seed red-brown.—-Fl. Tasm. i. 315, t. 95; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
232; Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 180. A. erystallina, Hook. f. in Hook. 
Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. (1847) 279. Theleophyton Billardieri, 
Mog. in D.C. Prodr. xiii. 11. 115. 
Norru Is~uanp: On sandy beaches, rare and local. Auckland—North Cape, 
Buchanan! Takou Bay, T. F’. C.; Whangaruru, Colenso; Great Barrier Island, 
Omaha, Kirk ! between Tauranga and Maketu, Rev. FW. H. Spencer! Anaura 
Bay (East Cape), Bishop Williams! Stewart Is~tanp: Paterson’s Inlet, 
Petrie! Kirk! CuatHam Istanps: Buchanan. December—April. 
A very remarkable species, differing from all others in the fruit being placed 
transversely to the bracts, not parallel. It is also found in Victoria and Tas- 
mania. 
4. SALICORNIA, Linn. 
Annual or perennial leafless herbs, sometimes woody at the 
base. Stems cylindric, jointed, very succulent ; branches opposite. 
Flowers minute, hermaphrodite or polygamous, sunk in cavities 
between the successive joints of the branches towards their tips, 
3-7 together, free or connate at the base. Perianth obpyramidal, 
fleshy, flat at the top or rarely contracted ; mouth 3-4-toothed. 
Stamens 1-2; anthers large, exserted, didymous. Ovary ovoid, 
narrowed above; styles 2, subulate, papillose. Utricle included in 
the spongy perianth, membranous, ovoid or oblong. Seed erect, 
oblong or obovoid; testa thinly coriaceous or crustaceous, hispid 
with hooked hairs; albumen wanting; embryo folded, radicle in- 
terior. 
A small genus of about 8 species, found on most temperate or tropical sea- 
shores, and occasionally in saline places inland. The single New Zealand species 
also occurs in Australia and Tasmania. 
1. S. australis, Soland. ex Forst. Prodr. nu. 489.—Stems pro- 
cumbent or almost prostrate below, sometimes woody at the base, 
3-12in. long; branches numerous, jointed, ascending or erect. 
Joints +4in. long, }$-1in. diam., terete below, usually faintly 
compressed above, shortly 2-lobed at the tip, with a narrow thin 
and membranous margin. Spikes terminating the branches and 
rather thicker than them, 4—2in. long, the joints short, broader 
than long. Flowers frequently polygamous, 5-7 together on each 
