Atrlplex.] cvii. chenopodiace^ (baker and clarke). 83 



Also in North Africa and Arabia. 



The expediency of reviving this name of Forskal, in use for another species, and 

 api)lying it to a plant that is not mealy may be doubted. 



3. PLEUROPTERANTHA, Franch. ; Benth. et Hook, 

 f. Gen. PI. iii. 1218. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 5-lobed, the 2 outer lobes longer 

 than the others. Stamens 5, hypogynous ; filaments united into a short 

 basal ring ; anthers wide, introrse, dorsifixed. Ovary ovoid ; ovule 

 slightly eampylotropous ; style short ; stigma thick, bifid. Utricle 

 ovoid, enclosed between two orbicular reticulate wings (abortive flowers). 

 — A glabrous stiff herb, divaricately branched. Leaves linear. Flowers 

 small, in 3-flo\vered clusters arranged in spikes near the ends of the 

 branches, the central flower fertile, the two lateral reduced to wings. 



Endemic, monotypic. 



1. P. Revoili, Franch. Sert. Somal. 60, t. 5. Branches slender, 

 glabrous. Leaves linear, 1 in. long, 1 lin. wide, subacute. Flowers 

 very small ; bracts and bracteoles minute, deltoid, concave. Perianth : 

 two outer segments herbaceous, finely ciliate on the margin, three 

 inner flat, thinly membranous, slightly erose at the apex. Stamens 

 rather shorter than the perianth. Perianth of barren florets at length 

 6 lin. in diam., shallowly cup-shaped, finely and abundantly reticulate. 

 Seed vertical ; embryo slender, annular ; albumen abundant. 



Xrile Iiand. Sonialiland : Tigieli, Retoil. 



A barren si)eeimen collected by W. Wickham Perry at Berbera on the Somali 

 coast may belong to this si)ecies. 



4. KOCHIA, Roth ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 60. 



Flowers very small, 2-sexual or female. Perianth ovoid-cylindric^ 

 with 5 lobes ; lobes persistent, incurved over the fruit, a scale or 

 horizontal crest developed in fruit spreading from the base of each lobe. 

 Stamens 5. Ovary sessile, ovoid ; styles 2, or sometimes 3 ; ovule 1, on 

 a short basal stalk. Utricle membranous ; seed horizontal ; embryo 

 annular, surrounding the often scanty albumen. — Small shrubs or 

 herbs ; stems not transversely marked nor as though jointed. Leaves 

 alternate, small ; blade linear-oblong or cylindric, not acute prickly. 

 Flowers in clusters of 2-8 or solitary, axillary and running into terminal 

 leafless panicles. 



Species 30 ; many in Australia ; a few scattered throughout the Old World. 

 Leaves linear, when mature scarcely pubescent . , \. K. salsoloides. 



Leaves oblong, when mature very hairy . . , 2. K. cana. 



1. K. salsoloides, Fenzl in Endl, et Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Decad. 

 Vindob. 1839, 74. A branched undershrub, 1-2 ft. long; young parts 

 pubescent ; stem when in fruit pubescent at the top or nearly glabrate. 



