86 cvii. CHENOPODiACEiE (baker AND clarke). [Arthrocnemimi. 



1. A. fruticosumy Moquin in DC, Prodr. xiii. ii. 151. Glabrous; 

 stems erect, branched, G-20 in. high. Fruiting spikes 1:^-2 i in. long, 

 2 lin. broad, rough, i.e., not forming smooth cylinders, the flowers being 

 partially emergent. — A. glaucum, Ung. Sternb. in Atti, Congr. Bot. 

 Firenze, 1874, 283 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 932 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 V. 12 ; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1 A, 76, fig. 35, H-N ; 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. 61 ; W. D. T. Koch, Syn. 

 Fl. Deutsch. ed. 3, iii. 2222. A. macrostachyiim, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 891), partly. Halocnemum glaucum, Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 109. 



irile Xiand. Nubia: coast region, JSenf / 



Ko^^er Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; near Boca de Giraul, Welwifsch, 

 6328 ! Loanda ; sandy maritime places, Welivitsch, 6331 ! German South-west 

 Africa : Walfisch Bay, Guerich, 22. 



2. A. xnacrostachyum, Mor. d; Delp. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 sei\ ii. 377. 

 Stem and branches stouter, very succulent. Spikes in fruit numerous, 

 j-lj in. long, '2J lin. broad, -'rough," but less so than in A.fi'uticosum. 

 — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 899, partly. A. fruticosum, var. 

 macrostachyum, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 151. 



lao-wer Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Oossweiler, 198! Ambriz ; by the River 

 On9o, Welivitsch, 6330. 



Also in North Africa, Europe, and the Orient. 



3. A. indicuniy Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 151. Stem pro- 

 strate, throwing up many suberect fruiting spikes, 2J lin. in diam., i.e., 

 about as stout and succulent as in ^1. macrostachyum. Spikes ^\-'2\ in. 

 long, 2^ lin. broad, " smooth," i.e., the flowers wholly hidden. — Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 12; Volk. in Engl. »fe Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 

 76. A. sp., Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 900. Salicornia indica^ 

 Wight, Ic. PI. t. 737. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, ex Moquin. 



Ztower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes, Wetwitsch, 6329. 



Also in India. 



8. SALICOBNIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 66. 



Seed without, or nearly without, albumen ; the seed suddenly bent 

 where the radicle joins the cotyledons, so that the radicle lies nearly 

 parallel with (but in an opposite direction to) the cotyledons. Other- 

 wise as Arthrocnemum. 



Species 9, on tbe sea-coasts of the world. 



1. S. herbacea, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 3, and ed. ii. 5. An erect, 

 glabrous, much -branched annual, 6-12 in. high. Leaves none, the 

 numerous branches usually terminating in a spike of flowers. Spikes 

 in fruit J-1 by J in., cylindric, continuous, more slender than in the 

 species oi Arthrocnemum. — ^Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 144; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, iv. 933 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 171 ; Yolk, in Engl. & Prantl, 



