84 CVII. ClIENOPODIACEiE (BAKER AND CLARKE). [Kochia. 



Leaves J-J by ..^ in., flat or subcylindric. — Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. 

 ii. 131 ; Volk. 'in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 70; Schinz in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. GO; O. Kuntze in Jahrb. Konigl. 

 Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 'llf>. K. pnbescens, Moquin, Chenop. Enum. Vd'2j 

 in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 131 ; Volk. in Engl. A: Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iii. lA, 70. 



ILower Guinea. German East Africa: Hereroland, Pechuel Loesche, Fleck, 

 406. 



Also in South-west Africa. 



The variations in degree of pubescence which constitute two species with Volkens 

 are (for me) altogetlier insufficient. J. G. Baker, indeed, doubts whether this species 

 is well separated from tlie Mediterranean K. prostrata, Schrad. 



2. K. cana, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 024. Branches white, obscurely 

 silky. Leaves 1 in. long or less, oblong or narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 

 very hairy even in age. Inflorescences subglobose, embedded in long 

 brown hair. 



irile Ziand. Nubia : coast region, Bent I 



Also in South-east Persia. 



This plant differs from the widespread K. prostrata in having mucli shorter, 

 blunter leaves. Hoissier defines his K. cana as annual ; but the example at Kew 

 (viz., Bornmueller, 4181) is an undershrub. The examples of Bent do not provide 

 means of analysis of either fiower or fruit ; they appear to me to match Bornniueller's 

 4184. 



5. HALOPEPLIS, Bunge ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 64. 



Flowers very small, 2-sexual. Perianth obconic, with 3 teeth. 

 Stamens 1 or 2. Ovary ovoid, superior ; style short, with 2 short 

 linear branches; ovule 1, suspended on a basal funicle. Seed erect, 

 orbicular, compressed; embryo peripheric round the albumen. — 

 Annuals or shrubs, glabrous or nearly so ; branches not jointed. 

 Leaves ^^J in. long, obovate or orbicular, amplexicaul and appearing 

 perfoliate in the tropical African specimens. Bracts in small spikes, 

 with usually 3 flowers under each. 



Species 3, in the Mediterranean region, Arabia and Persia, 



1. H. perfoliata, Schioeinf. Beitr. FL Aethiop. 289, name only. A 

 woody branched glabrous shrub, 1-2 ft. high ; branches with closely 

 placed nodes, not jointed. Leaves ^^ in. long, obovate or orbicular, 

 sessile and minutely decurrent at the base. Spikes of flowers small, 

 dense ; floral bracts similar to the leaves, with usually 3 flowers under 

 each bract, more or less adnate thereto. — Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 935 ; 

 Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 74; Schweinf. in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 157. H. amplexicaulis, Ces. Pass, k Gib. 

 Compend. Fl. Ital. 271, t. 41, fig. 2. Scdicoruia perfoliata, Forsk. Fl. 

 ^'Egypt.-Arab. 3, t. 1. 



