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i. S. floricla, M. B. Glaucous, glabrous, succulent ; stem 

 erect, branching from base; branches simple or sparingly branched, 

 spreading or decumbent; lower joints elongated. Leaves teretish, 

 short, obtuse, spreading, and at length deflexed. Bracteoles ovate, 

 obtuse, longer than flower, boat-shaped, obtuse, membranous-rhargined ; 

 flowers small, immersed in base of floral leaf ; wings of fruiting peri- 

 gonium pink, obovate-orbicular, broad, narrowed at base; wings of 

 lateral, atrophied flowers minute, scale-like — Summer — Eastern 

 Desert (Tristram). 



2. S, Ianig:era, Post. 5 -^ ^^ -^i woody at decumbent base; 

 branches brittle, ascending, intricately branched, pale, the lower 

 segments .03 to .05 long, the upper becoming shorter. Lesives Jieshy, 

 triquetrous, half-clasping at base, hollowed at upper surface, .007 to .003 

 long. .002 to .0025 thick, obtuse, axils densely packed with fleece as long 

 as leaves — August — M'Baghik, shore of Dead Sea. Plant with the 

 jointed stems and opposite leaves of a Seidlitzia, but as yet destitute of 

 flowers and fruits. 



18. HALrOXYLiO]^, Bunge. Haloxylon. BelM. 



Flowers perfect, bibracteolate. Perigonium 5-parted, the leaves 

 growing after flowering into spreading, scarious, transverse wings. 

 Staminodes 5, united into an urn which is connate with the filaments, 

 but free at tip. Anthers muticous. Style short or 0, stigmas 2-4. 

 Utricle top-shaped, concave above, fleshy, enclosed in the open peri- 

 gonium. Seed horizontal — Shrubs, with jointed branches, usually 

 opposite, connate, rudimentary or minute leaves, and solitary, axillary 

 flowers — Distinguished from Salsola by jointed stem, staminodes, and 

 monadelphous fllaments. 



H. articulatiini, Cav. 5 Niciun. Bellel. Titfweh. Laitun. 

 .3 to .5, glabrous, green. Leaves scale-like at tip of joint, short- trian- 

 gular, connate into a cup which is minutely villous within. Stamin- 

 odes shorter than ovary ; style short ; stigmas 2, divergent ; fruit with 

 wings .005 to .009 across, wings nearly equal, obovate-orbicular, with 

 eroded margins — October and November — Um Jemal (Moab) ; Dam- 

 ascus ; Palmyrene Desert, and eastward ; Et-Tih, and southward and 

 westward to Egypt. 



19. SAI.SOI.A, L. Saltwort. 



Flowers perfect (rarely polygamous), axillary, bibracteate, usually 

 solitary. Perigonium 5-fid or -parted beyond middle or nearly to base, 

 base indurated or membranous, lobes at length growing, transversely 

 membranous-winged (rarely keeled). Hypogynous disk cup-shaped, 

 more or less manifest. Staminodes 0. Stamens 5 (rarely in staminate 

 flowers 4) exserted, anthers muticous or mucronate or appendaged by 

 the production of the connective. Style bifid. Fruit a depressed, dry 

 utricle, or rarely berry-like. Seed horizontal— Annuals or shrubs, with 

 branches not jointed. 



* Annuals. 



1. S. Kali, L. 5 .3 to 1, hirsute or glah'escent, divaricately 

 branched from base, branches procumbent or ascending. Leaves alter- 

 nate, fleshy, half-clasping at base, lanceolate, subulate-spiny at tip, 



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