214 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Chenopodiacee. 
a new species in a Natural Order already overloaded with synonymy, and made up, as it stands in systematic works, 
of probably more bad species than good. I have drawn up the description from New Zealand specimens, which 
differ from the description of Moguin-Tandon's (DC. Prodr.) in the smaller more fleshy leaves, the lobes of which 
are not mucronate, and whose upper surface is glabrous, not scaberulous; the flowers, too, are not $; line long. 
6. Chenopodium Pumalio, Br. ; parvulum, totum glanduloso-pubescens, farinosum, caule e basi ramo- 
sissimo, ramis suberectis, foliis petiolatis obovatis late ovatisve obtusis integris obscure sinuatisve utrinque 
glandulosis viridibus subtus venosis, floribus axillaribus glomerulatis minimis monandris, semine verticali. 
Br. Prodr. ; 
Hus. Northern Island. Shores of the east coast and Lake Taupo; abundant in native cultivated 
grounds, Colenso. 
A very small, excessively branched plant, 4 inches or so high, with slender branches and small leaves, every- 
where covered with pubescence and glandular powder. Leaves 1 inch long, on slender petioles, oblong or obovate, 
blunt. Flowers very minute and pubescent. Perianth five-parted; not thickened in fruit, except down the 
midrib. Slamen one. Seed vertical.—Found in New Holland. 
Gen. II. SUAIDA, Forsk. 
Perianthium 5-partitum, 2-bracteatum, demum carnosum v. baccatum. Stamina 5. Stylus brevis. 
Stigmata 2-3. Utriculus perianthio tectus. Testa crustacea. Embryo spiralis. 
A small fleshy cylindrical-leaved shrub, 1-2 feet high, found near the sea close to high-water mark, and in 
salt marshes in many parts of the Temperate and Tropical world. Branches erect, covered with fleshy, rather sharp, 
powdery leaves, 4-4 inch long. Flowers small, solitary, or two or three together, sessile in the axils of the leaves ; 
each with two small bractez at the base. Perianth 5-cleft. Stamens five. Stigmas two or three, on a short style, 
placed on a broad depressed utriculus. Seeds punctate, horizontal. Embryo coiled spirally. (Name from Sued, 
an Arabic name for a species yielding soda.) 
1. Sumda maritima, Dum. ; suffruticosa, foliis subacutis, stigmatibus 2-3, semine horizontali. Mog.- 
Tand. 1. c. Chenopodium, Z. A. Cunn. Prodr. Engl. Bot. t. 633. Salsola fruticosa, Forst. Prodr. etc. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands, not uncommon, Banks and Solander, etc. (A native of England.) 
I cannot distinguish this specifically from British specimens of $. maritima, which have also stems shrubby 
below; it appears to me a common plant all the world over, of which very many species have been made by 
authors. 
Gen. III. ATRIPLEX, Z. 
Flores monoici v. dioici. FL. 3. Perianthium ebracteatum, 3-5-partitum v. -lobatum. Stamina 5. 
Fu. 2. Perianthium 5-partitum v. 2-valve. Stylus 2-partitus. Utriculus perianthio aucto inclusus. Semen 
erectum. 
Shrubs or herbs, generally growing near the sea, with unisexual, spiked, or racemose flowers, sometimes col- 
leeted into heads. Male perianth three- to five-parted, without bracts. Stamens five. Female perianth as in the 
male, or of two valves, always enlarging and enclosing the utriculus. Styles two. Seed erect (rarely horizontal). 
— The species are very variable, and affect the same localities as Chenopodiums. (Name from a, nof, and rpedew, fo 
nourish ; as contradistinguished perhaps from the Chenopodia, many of which are pot-herbs.) 
1. Atriplex cinerea, Poiret; frutex dioicus, totus cinereo-lepidotus, ramis robustis angulatis, foliis 
alternis anguste oblongis lanceolatis subdeltoideisve obtusis integerrimis coriaceis in petiolum angustatis, 
perianthio fructifero 2-valvi, valvis demum reniformi-rhombeis integerrimis coriaceis disco levibus. Poiret, 
Dict. Mog.-Tand. l. c. A. Halimus, Br. Prodr. 
