586 CHENOPODIACE. [Salicorma. 
side of the branch at the top of the joints, packed side by side in 
a cavity between the joint and the one above, forming an almost 
complete ring round the branch. Perianth very thick and fleshy, 
broad and flat and almost quadrangular at the top, narrower at 
the immersed base; mouth almost closed. Stamen usually one. 
Utricle obliquely ovoid, membranous. Seed nearly orbicular, 
slightly compressed ; testa crustaceous, minutely hispid; embryo 
with thick plano-convex cotyledons and an incumbent terete 
radicle.—Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 205; S. indica, Rk. Br. Prodr. 411 
(not of Willd.); A. Rich. Fl. Now. Zel. 182; A. Cunn. Precur. 
n. 866; Raoul, Choix, 43; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 216; Handb. 
N.Z. Fil. 233. S. quinqueflora, Bunge. ex Ung. Sternb. Vers. Syst. 
Salic. 59. 
Nort anp SoutH Isntanps, CHatHAm Istanps: Abundant along the shores 
throughout. Flowers through the summer and autumn. 
5. SUASDA, Forsk. 
Glabrous herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, fleshy, thick 
or terete, entire. Flowers minute, sessile or nearly so, axillary, 
solitary or clustered, usually hermaphrodite ; bracts and bracteoles 
minute, scarious. Perianth short, fleshy, 5-lobed or -partite ; lobes 
or segments equal or unequal, without appendages or more or less 
carinate or crested or slightly winged, enclosing the fruit. Sta- 
mens 5, short. Styles 2-5, short, subulate, recurved. Utricle 
included in the perianth, membranous or spongy ; pericarp thin, 
usually free from the seed. Seed horizontal, vertical or oblique ; 
testa crustaceous or coriaceous; albumen wanting or scanty ; 
embryo flat, spirally rolled. 
A widely distributed genus of about 40 species, usually found on sea-shores 
or in saline places. The single species found in New Zealand has a wide range 
in most temperate and tropical countries. 
1. S. maritima, Dum. Fl. Belg. 22.—A much-branched 
glabrous erect or diffuse herb, varying in height from a few inches 
to nearly 2ft.; stem often hard and almost woody at the base. 
Leaves sessile, 14in. long or more, linear, semi-terete or almost 
cylindric, acute or obtuse, thick and succulent. Flowers small, 
greenish, solitary or 2-4 together in the axils of the leaves, each 
flower usually with 1 bract and 2 bracteoles. Fruiting-perianth 
depressed, about ;4,in. diam., 5-lobed; lobes ovate-rounded, ap- 
pressed to the utricle. Utricle membranous. Seed horizontal or 
very rarely vertical, dark red-brown, shining.—Raoul, Choir, 43 ; 
Hook. f. #l. Nov. Zel. i. 214; Handb. N.Z. Fil. 231; Benth. Fl. 
Austral. v. 206. Chenopodium maritimum, Linn. Sp. Plant. 221; 
A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 181; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 364. Salsola 
fruticosa, Forst. Prodr. n. 131 (not of Linn.). 
