380 CHENOPODIACEAE, [Basella. 
all islands, but most common on the ages plains of Hawaii. While near the 
coast it is _ decumbent, only a few feet high, I have seen it yr ida with a woody 
trunk, and 12—15 ft. high, in ‘the upper woods of Maunakea. Na me: «Aweoweo». 
The leaves are apes as a potherb. 
2. C. album, L. var. candicans Mog. in DC. Prod. 1. ¢. p. 71. — Herba- 
ceous, erect, with striate branches, 1—3 ft. high. Leaves petiolate, 2--3 
rhomboid -ovate to oblong-lanceolate, or the upper linear -lanceolate, acute, 
sparingly sinuate-dentate, quite mealy, pale glaucous on the upper, white 
on the lower face. Clusters of flowers in short axillary spikes, dense or 
interrupted, the upper ones forming a panicle leafy at the base. Lobes 
of perianth keeled, closed over the fruit. Seed sharp-edged, shining. — 
Atriplex Oahuensis, Meyen, Reise, I, p. 127 
Oahu! Molokai! and elsewhere, along the seashore. The species, a common weed 
in Europe, is spread over many revedoong tg and tropical regions. 
urale, L. — DC. Prod. l.c. p. 69. — Ascending, 1—1'/2 ft. high. 
re Hionibaid- ovate, 1—3‘ long, Hee aes and sharply cut into 
unequal teeth or lobes, thin, bright green. Spikes diverging and somewhat 
corymbose, not paniculate. Lobes of perianth scarcely keeled. Seed sharp- 
edged, rugose, opaque 
Oahu; E. Maui! Kula and Ulupalakua. A common weed in Europe. 
+4. C. hybridum, L. — DC. Prod. 1. c. p. 68. -- Herbaceous, erect, 2—4 ft. 
high. Leaves thin, glabrous and bright green, the upper ones deltoid, 
the lower ovate-cordate in outline, 3—5-nerved, 3—6/ long, sinuately 
2-—3-lobed on each side, both the lobes and the long taper point very 
acute; the petioles 1—3’. Spikes diffuse, loosely paniculate, leafless. seeeet) 
of perianth obtuse, smooth, keeled, imperfectly closed over the fru 
Seed sharp-edged, closely adhering to the thin and pitted pericarp 
ahu! (Lay s os A common European weed; the leaves heavy-scented like 
Datura Stramoni 
75. C. EY L. — DC. Prod. l. ¢. p. 72. — Erect, 2—3 ft. high, 
viscid-glandular, emitting an aromatic scent. Leaves shortly petioled, 
lanceolate or — sinuately toothed or nearly entire, the upper ones 
tapering at both ends, the lowest 4—-6‘ long. Spikes leafy, or rather the 
clusters in the axils of reduced leaves. Perianth closely appressed, not 
keeled, its divisions obtuse, often only 3 or 2. Seed obtusely margined, 
sometimes vertical, eenesie Embryo incompletely annular 
E. Maui! eet! Hawaii. — Probably of Mexican origin, but now carried into 
maby warm and temperate ak 
2. BASELLA, L. 
Bracteoles adhering to the perianth and united into a 2-lobed external 
eas, Perianth ovoid, shortly 5-lobed, almost closed. Stamens‘at the 
base of the — connate below. Style short, with 3 oblong introrse 
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