Chenopodiacea. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 215 
Has. Northern Island. Sandy shores of Palliser Bay, etc., CoZenso. 
A very common New Holland and Tasmanian plant, the 4. Halimus of Mr. Brown, and possibly of Linnzeus 
also, which is common to both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. —A small dicecious shrub, 10 inches to 2 
feet high, uniformly and densely covered with a pale buff ashy covering of minute appressed chaffy scales. Stems 
angled, leafy. Leaves narrow, oblong, blunt, entire, 1-2 inches long. Male flowers densely clustered, in many- 
flowered racemose spikes. Female axillary, clustered or solitary, two-valved. : Valves nearly + inch long, rhomboid 
or reniform, coriaceous; margins thin, quite entire, surface even. 
2. Atriplex patula, L.; erecta, ramosa, glaberrima v. parce furfuracea, foliis petiolatis lineari-ovatis 
sinuato-lobatis lobulis basi suberectis obtusis lineari-oblongisve integerrimis inferioribus seepe hastatis 
summis linearibus, racemis spicisve interruptis, floribus glomeratis, perianthio fcemineo rhombeo-denticu- 
lato levi v. tuberculato. Mog.-Tand. I. c. Eng. Bot. t. 936. M. Australasica, Mog.-Tand. 1. c. 
Has. Northern Island. East coast; in salt marshes, plentiful, Colenso. (Native of England.) 
A very common plant in England and various parts of the temperate world, also found in Tasmania.—An 
erect herb, 2—4 feet high, glabrous, or with a few minute chaffy scales about the upper branches and inflorescence. 
Stems often striped green and white. Leaves petiolate, 2-3 inches long, narrow ovate, oblong or hastate, blunt, 
quite entire or lobed, two lower lateral lobes spreading or ascending. Flowers small, inconspicuous, green, in 
clusters which are scattered along slender, erect, axillary, and terminal peduncles. Perianth of the fruit rhomboid, 
toothed, the back of the valves smooth or tuberculated. 
3. Atriplex Billardieri, Hook. fil.; herbacea, carnosa, caule prostrato, ramis ascendentibus, foliis 
(ramulisque) papillosis petiolatis oblongis obtusis integris lobatisve, floribus monoicis & fasciculatis breve 
pedicellatis perianthio 5-lobo 9 solitariis binisve sessilibus urceolatis, perianthio fructifero urceolato sub- 
baccato compresso ore 2-labiato, semine compresso labiis subacutis integris lobulatisve contrario. A. crys- 
tallina, Nod. in Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 6. p. 279. Theleophyton Billardieri, Mog.-Tand. in DC. Prodr. 
o 13. p 115: 
Has. Northern Island, 4. Cunningham. Sandy places, Wangururu Bay, Colenso. 
A succulent herb, with prostrate stems, a foot or two long, and ascending leafy branches, which, as well as the 
leaves, are covered with crystalline papillæ. Leaves oblong, blunt, 4—4 inch long. Female flowers few, axillary. 
Perianth urceolate, when in fruit fleshy, 3 lines long, with two blunt or sharp, entire or toothed lips or valves, en- 
closing an erect compressed seed, whose edges are opposite the lips, not parallel to them, as is usual in Atriplex. 
This curious species is also found in Tasmania. It is named Chenopodium ambiguum in A. Cunningham’s Herb. of 
New Zealand. 
Gen. IV. SALSOLA, Z. 
Flores hermaphroditi, bracteati. Perianthium 5-partitum, fructiferum connivens, utriculum includens; 
laciniis transversim alatis v. carinatis. Stamina 5. Stylus 2-fidus. Semen horizontale, exalbuminosum. 
Embryo spiralis. 
A curious genus, from which soda is abundantly manufactured, found always in salt-marshes or ground im- 
pregnated with saline matter, in various parts of the world. The only New Zealand species is a low, spinous, green 
bush, apparently Australian also, but I have no flowering or fruiting specimens; if so, it is probably common to 
many parts of the world, including the English coasts, for S. australis scarcely differs from the European 5. Kali. 
Everywhere quite glabrous. Stems a foot or two high, suberect or prostrate, woody, furrowed, branched. Leaves 
scattered, small, rigid, succulent, sessile, patent or recurved, subulate, pungent, 2-4 lines long. Flowers solitary, 
very inconspicuous, axillary, shorter than the bracteæ. Perianth five-parted ; when in fruit the base encloses the 
calyx, and the limb is expanded into a broad, membranous, veined wing. Seed horizontal. Embryo spiral. (Named 
from sal, salt.) 
