Order 95. Chenopodacece. 271 



(Salicornia Jterlacea), which looks as if made of green glass, and has 

 spikes and branches very much alike. 



4. SUEDA. Sea blite. 



1. S. nudiflora. A prostrate spreading heath-like plant, a 

 good deal tinged with red, leaves narrow lanceolate or linear, 

 becoming more fleshy and cylindrical as they get older, flowers 

 in leafy spikes, 4 or 5 together, green or reddish, looking almost 

 like a 5-lobed berry, styles 3. Moras. 



The above is my description of S. Indica, D., which H. includes in 

 this, though the two plants seem to me to be separate. Like others 

 of the order this grows near the seashore in Salsette, Bassein, &c. ; 

 which might well be described by those who are not botanists as 

 " wide flats where nothing but coarse grasses grow." 



"2, S. maritima. Erect plant, with woody stems, much 

 branched from the root, glaucous tinged with red, leaves linear 

 or cylindrical, flowers very numerous in slender spikes, the 

 anthers alone conspicuous, styles 2. 



Not in D. G. JS"o. 1250 : in similar situations as the last. H. makes 

 it identical with the English annual sea blite, in which the leaves are 

 generally half cylindrical, and the habit not shrubby. 



5. BASELLA. 



B. rubra (B. alba, D.). A pretty twiner, smooth, stems 

 red or green, leaves broad ovate, heart-shaped or roundish, 

 flowers in spikes, simple or branched, fruit size of a pea, red, 

 white or black. Midi ki bhdji, ydl chi bhdji, velgond. 



Throughout India, wild or cultivated ( EL). 



There seem to be several varieties all cultivated and used as 

 spinach. 



To this order also belong Beta vulgaris, beetroot, wild on the 

 English coast, pdlak, chukandar, but generally known in W. India as 

 beet : the mangel wurzel is a variety of the same ; and Spinacia 

 oleracea, spinach, pdlak, but generally called, like other leaves used 

 for the same purpose, bhdji. 



ORDER 96. POLYGONACEJE. Buckwheats. 



Herbs, rarely shrubs, leaves generally alternate, stipules con- 

 spicuous, chaffy or membranous, usually sheathing the stem, 

 perianth inferior of 3 to 6 imbricated sepals, united at the base, 

 nut hard, usually enclosed in the perianth, often triangular. 



The remarkable stipules are generally enough to distinguish this 

 order, which otherwise bears much resemblance to the last two. Many 



