82 cvii. CHENOPODIACE.E (baker AND clarke). [AtHjiHex. 



2. A. Halimus, Linn. Sp. PI ed. i. 1052, and ed. ii. 1402. 

 An erect undershiub, 2-4 ft. high. Leaves alternate, petioled ; blade 



1 in. long, oblong, narrowed at the base, with very close short whitish 

 tomentum underneath. Branches mostly of one sex ; inflorescences 

 axillary, but running especially in the males into terminal panicles, 

 leafless at the top. Male perianths with close tomentum. Two bracteoles 

 of the fruit ^-J in. long and broad, triangular or ovate, smooth on the 

 back, entire, sinuate or somewhat toothed on the margin, united only 

 at the base. Fruit flattened, erect, between the two erect bracteoles. — 

 Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 100; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 91G ; Schinz 

 in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. 60; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflan- 

 zenfam. iii. lA, 64, 66. A. capensis, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 100 ; 

 Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. 60; O. Kuntze in Jahrb. 

 Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 273. A, paludosa, Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PL Welw. i. 899, not of R. Br. 



Ito-wer Guinea. Angola: Mossaniedes; about Caroca, WeJwitscJi, 6327! 

 German Soutli-west Af lica : Horeroland, Marloth, 1456, Fleck, 725, Rautanen, 137, 

 Ouerich, 55, 145, 151, Pechtiel Loesche. 



Europe and the Mediten-anean region. 



As to the synonymy, the names gfiven refer (for tropical Africa) to one example 

 viz., Wclwitsr-h, 6327, showing male branches. Tlie A. paludosa, R. IJr., is ]tro- 

 cumbent, and his Australian s]>ecimens do not match in leaves tlie Mossamedes 

 plant. Schin/ kt'cps np A. capeusix, Moquin, as distinct from A. Haliimts, Linn,, 

 by tlie considerably lar<rer bracteoles to the fruit — a character difhcult to wurk as 

 specific in European Afriplex. And Welwitsch, 6327, shows no fruit or female 

 flowers. 



3. A. axnboensisy Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenh. xxxi. 

 211. Closely resembling .1. Ilalimusin habit, leaves and inflorescence. 

 Fruits about J in. long, the lower part globose, prickly, formed of the 



2 confluent bracteoles, which become woody with a wall j^^ in. thick, 

 the pericarp exceedingly thin. Seed enclosed small. — Schinz in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. GO. 



XiO^^er Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland; Omandong-o, Schinz, 

 468! 



This is described by Schinz as lepidote; I find in scraping off the indumentuin 

 no scales, but a minute tonienUiuj, as in A. Halimus, Linn. Indeed, except by the 

 fruit, I do not see how it could be distinguished from A. Halimus. 



4. A. farinosa, Fm'sk. Fl. ^Egi/pt.-Aj'ab. cxxiii. An undershrub, 



3 ft. high, not mealy\ Leaves alternate; blade 1^ by i-| in., in the 

 middle stem-leaves cordate or auricled (sometimes with acute auricles), 

 margin entire or sparingly toothed, under surface with dense minute 

 white tomentum ; petioles 0-^^ in. Two bracteoles in fruit orbicular, 

 -^ in. in diam., flattened, densely tomentose, without tubercles in the 

 few examples seen. — Aschersou S: Schweinf. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. l^S9 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. *.)17, not of Dumort., nor of Moquin. 



M'ile Xiand. Nubia ; coast region, Be7it ! Kcd 8e:i, Lord ! IJritisli East 

 Africa : Sabaki River, near Melindi, Kirk ! Mombasa, Kirk ! 



