270 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



4. SUEDA. Leaves linear fleshy, flowers, minute axillary, 

 sepals and stamens 5. 



5. BASELLA. A much-branched fleshy twiner; flowers in 

 spikes with 2 bracts united to the 5-lobed perianth achene 

 round included. 



1. CHENOPODIUM. G-oosefoot. 



C. album. An erect plant, stems often striped with green, 

 red or purple, leaves very variable, angled or egg-shaped, toothed 

 or lobed, clusters of flowers in spikes, seed smooth, shining, and 

 keeled. Chdkvit, ghdnen. 



Not in D. Several varieties are cultivated as pot-herbs ((?.). The 

 cultivated forms vary from green to red (J3.). 



The leaves are often covered with meal, from which the plant gets 

 in England the name of white goosefoot. It is there very common 

 in waste places and cultivated fields, and was formerly used for food 

 (as in India now), like many other wild plants. For in the seventeenth 

 century Fuller wrote "Weeds are counted herbs in the beginning 

 of spring, nettles are put in pottage, and salads are made of elder 

 buds." 



C. ambrosoides, a tall, rank, aromatic, much-branched plant, 

 Mr. Birdwood has in his Matheran list under the name of Sherui, and 

 Dr. Dymock Chandanlativd, vdsuke. 



2. ATRIPLEX. Orache. 



A. hortensis. Stout erect, leaves not mealy, triangular cor- 

 date, upper ovate lanceolate, flowers polygamous in axillary 

 spikes and terminal panicles, bracts nearly free, roundish. 

 Juri. 



Cultivated as a spinach in several varieties, tinged with red or 

 purple (!>.) " Once very generally cultivated in England for the 

 table, and called orach, orage, or mountain spinach, and still culti- 

 vated in Paris " Pratt. Its cultivation in kitchen gardens in Eng- 

 land has lately been revived. 



* A. Stocksii (Obione S., D.). Shrubby, leaves small, petioled, 

 oblong or roundish, whitish or glaucous, male clusters axillary, or in 

 short leafy spikes, fruiting bracts roundish from a narrow base. 

 Guzerat, common near the sea (D.). Knrrachee (H.). 



3. ARTHROCNEMUM. 



* A. Indicum. Stem prostrate, spreading, half shrubby, 

 branches alternate with short joints, spikes large cylindric. 

 Machur, ghuri. 



Common in salt ground (D. and #.). I have not seen this, but it 

 appears to differ very little from the English jointed glass wort 



