Salicomia.] cvii. CHENOPODiACEiE (baker and weight). 87 



PflanzeDfam. iii. lA, 77, fig. 36, G-L; W. D. T. Koch, Syn. Fl.'Deutsch, 

 ed. 3, iii. 2223. S. annual Smith in Sowerby, Engl. Bot. t. 415. 



nSozamb. Blst. Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, ex Engler. 



Also on the coasts of Europe, Africa, and America. 



9. SALSOIiA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 71. 

 (By C. H. Wright.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite, subtended by 2-3 bracteoles. Perianth 

 5-partite ; segments concave, thickened on the back, in fruit furnished 

 on the back with a large horizontal scarious wing ; parts below the 

 wing free or connate into an indurated cup. Stamens 5, usually 

 hypogynous ; anthers obtuse or with the connective variously pro- 

 duced. Ovary globose or ovoid ; style long or short ; stigmas 2, spread- 

 ing, subulate ; ovule subsessile or pendulous from the tip of a long 

 funicle. Utricle included in the persistent winged perianth. Seed 

 usually horizontal, orbicular ; testa membranous ; albumen none ; 

 embryo spiral. — Annual or perennial herbs or undershrubs of various 

 habit. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, sometimes wide sheathing, 

 short, long or scale-like, sometimes mucronate. Flowers small, solitary 

 in the axils of the upper reduced leaves of the branchlets or spicate. 



Species about 40, chiefly in temperate Asia and North Africa, several in South 

 Africa, 1 in temperate North and South America and ] in Australia. 

 Flowers in spikes. 



Leaves minute, orbicular. Disk cupular . . 1. S.foetida. 

 Leaves 2-4 lin. long, ovate. Disk . . , 2. S. vermiculata. 



Flowers in dense terminal heads . . . . 3. iS. rubescens. 



Flowers solitary. 



Leaves 2-8 lin. long, villous . . . . 4. S, crassa. 



Leaves 2-3 lin. long, tomentose . . . . b. S. Zeyheri. 



Leaves minute. 



Branchlets not at right angles to the branches. 

 Fruiting wings obovate, below the middle of 



the segments . . . . . . 6. 5'. aphylla. 



Fruiting wings suborbiculai', at the middle of 



the segments . . . . . . 7. S. Forskalii 



Branchlets nearly at right angles to the branches 8. S. BoUcb. 



1. S. foetida, Del. Fl. Egypte, bl . A shrub 1-4 ft. high, with the 

 odour of decaying fish ; branchlets many, pallid, ascending, slender, 

 woody. Leaves minute, alternate, orbicular, fleshy with membranous 

 margins. Flowers forming very short dense cylindrical spikes, solitary 

 in the axils of broad ovate imbricate leaves ; bracteoles like the leaves 

 in size and shape; Perianth-segments ovate-triangular. Anthers with 

 a small appendage. Disk membranous, faintly lO-lobed. Stigmas 

 exserted from the perianth, recurved. Wings of fruiting perianth 

 inserted at the middle of the lobes, white, subequal, obcuneate, erose- 

 laciniate.— Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1)61; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 18; 

 Barbey, Levant, t. 8, fig. 11 ; Franch. in Journ. de Bot. i. 134. 

 Caroxylon fcetichcm, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 178; Aschers. in 



