Chenopodium.'] cvii. chenopodiacele (baker and clarke). 81 



8 by |-1 in., narrowed at both ends, remotely and shallowly toothed or 

 sinuate ; midrib pubescent and with scattered stalked glands beneath ; 

 surface obscurely verrucose and very sparingly glandular beneath. 

 Inflorescence and flowers as of C. schraderianum^ Roem. et Sch. 



XKozaml). Dist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Kwa Mshuza, Hoist, 

 8926! 



This plant, a fine example, is issued by Engler as C.foetidum, Schrader ; the 

 leaves are very unlike. 



2. ATBIPLEX, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 53. 



Flowers small, 1- sexual. Perianth of male of 5 lobes united below, 

 without bracteoles. Stamens 5, or 4-3. Female flower without perianth, 

 enclosed between 2 erect ovate or triangular bracteoles. 'Ovary ovoid, 

 free, with one ovule on a basal stalk, oblique; style cylindric, with 

 usually 2 branches. Capsule dry, ovoid, flattened, enclosed between the 

 2 erect (often enlarged thickened or hardened) bracteoles ; pericarp 

 thin, membranous. Seed erect ; embryo forming one circle round the 

 enclosed albumen. — Herbs or undershrubs, mealy, scaly or closely 

 tomentose. Leaves alternate, undivided ; blade flat, often toothed or 

 lobed. Flowers numerous, clustered, in cymes running into terminal 

 spikes and panicles. Branches (and not rarely plants) carrying flowers 

 all of one sex. 



Species 120 ; tliroughout the world, less numerous in the tropics. 

 *Leaves green or mealy, with many teeth . . 1. A. hastata. 



**Leaves closely minutely white-tomentose, without 

 meal or scales. 

 Leaves narrowed at the base into the petiole. 

 Fruit bracteoles flat, separate nearly to the 



base . . . . . . . 2. A. Halimus, 



Fruit bracteoles united at the base, woody, 



prickly Z. A. amboensis. 



Leaves (towards middle of stem) cordate-auricled 



at the base 4. A.farinosa. 



1. A. hastata, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 1053, and ed. ii. 1494. Stem 

 herbaceous, erect, 2 ft. high. Leaves alternate, petioled ; blade 2-3 

 in. long, ovate, acute, toothed, base hastate, sparingly mealy or glabrate. 

 Spikes running into terminal panicles, sometimes dense ; bracteoles 

 J in. long, deltoid-triangular, united only at the base, smooth or sparsely 

 tuberculate on the back, toothed on the margin. Fruit erect, flattened 

 between the two bracteoles; pericarp thin. — Reichb. PI. Crit. i. 18, 

 t. 16; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 94; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 909; 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 171 ; Volk. in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 

 lA, 6G ; W. D. J. Koch, Syn. Fl. Deutsch. ed. 3, iii. 2215. 



IVXozaxubii Blst. German East Africa : " Great Lakes," ex Engler, 

 Abundant in Europe ; found in nearly all temperate and warm-temperate 



climates. No example from tropical Africa is preserved at Kew, but it is a weed 



that may occur anywhere. 



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