6T6 CHENOPODIACE^I (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 



dehiscent, included in sepals. Seed vertical, lenticular, testa crustaceous ; 

 aril ; albumen central ; embryo annular ; radicle ascending — AVhite- 

 woolly perennial herbs or shrubs with alternate leaves. 



jE, Javanica, Juss. 71 Yara. Sliajarat-en'Na'jeli. Yerruq. 

 'Ar'ah. Gheil. Tarf. .3 to .G; stems terete, stiff, branched. Leaves ob- 

 ovate to oblong and oblanceolate, .01 to .035 long, obtuse, mucronu- 

 late, tapering at base into a short petiole. Spikes cylindrical, .03 to 

 .08 long, .004 to .OOG in diameter, sessile, forming terminal, leafless, 

 simple or branching panicles ; flowers s?iowy loMte ; bracts ovate, some- 

 what shorter than sepals, mucronulate, the outer hairy; sepals 1-nerved; 

 utricle oblong, .001 long, acutish — Spring — El-Ghor and valleys about 

 the Dead Sea, and southward to Sinai and Egypt. 



Var. BoTCi, Webb. Leaves lanceolate and linear — Sinai. 



5. ACHYRAXTHES, L. Achyrantiies. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, 3-bracted. Sepals 5-4, glabrous, unequal, 

 at length indurated. Stamens 5-4, united in a cupule at base. Stamin- 

 odes 5, entire or denticulate at tip, the back sometimes with a fringed 

 appendage. Ovary 1-ovuled. Style elongated ; stigma simple, capitate. 

 Utricle ovate or nearly globular, indehiscent, included in calyx. Seed 

 vertical, somewhat crustaceous ; aril 0. Albumen small, central; embryo 

 annular, peripheral ; radicle ascending — (Ours) shrubs with herbaceous 

 stems and branches which are jointed at base. Leaves opposite. 



A, aspcra, L. 5 AV(sm .4 to .5 or more, appressed-pubescent ; 

 branches ascending, elongated. Leaves short-petioled, ovate to oblong, 

 .03 to .06 long, acute or acuminate, the upper small, lanceolate. Spikes 

 long, slender, from the upper axils and terminal, at length loose; 

 flowers greenish, spreading, at length deflexed ; aicn of lateral Iracts as 

 long as omte linib; sepals about twice as long as bracts, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, obsoletely 3-nerved ; utricle oblong — Spring — 



Var. argentca, Boiss. Flowers somewhat shorter, whitish or 

 purplish - Dry places; coast; Jordan Valley; Dead Sea; Carmel. 



Order LXXXIIL CIIEXOPOBIACE.E. Endl. (Salsolacere, Moq.) 

 (GoosEFOOT Family.) 



Herbs or shrubs^ with opposite or alternate learns^ 

 destitute of stijpides and bracts, with minute, solitary or 

 chcsiered, axillary flowers, imbricated in the bud; the stamens 

 as many as calyx-lobes or fewer, inserted ojpjposite them or on 

 their base ; the 1-celled, 1-seeded ovary becoming a membran^ 

 ous, coriaceous, or fleshy, indehiscent utricle — Flowers per- 

 fect, polygamous, or dioecious. Calyx fperigo7iitcm J -persistent, 

 of 3-5-2 sepals, more or less iiDited. Stamens hypogynons or 

 perigynous, free or united at base in a cupule, sometimes 

 alternating with staminodes, and sometimes with a hypogy- 

 nons disk above the stamens or 0. Ovary free, or adherent 

 below to the perigonium ; ovule basilar ; styles 2, rarely 3-4, 

 separate or united at base. Fruit sometimes appendaged; 



