88 cvii. ciiENOPODiACE^ (baker AND wright). [Solsola. 



Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 183. Chenojwdium bart/osmon, Roem. & 

 Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 269. 



JTlle Xiand. Nubia : Oobisch, near Berber, Schtveinfurth, 740 ! Wady Haifa, 

 in crevices of sandstone rocks, Scott-Elliot, 3420! between Berber and Kliartoum, 

 Bromfield ! sea-coast, Bent ! Somaliland : shore at Obock, Faurot. 



Also in North Afnca, Western Asia and India. Native name in Egypt '' mulley,'* 

 in Nubia " deberrah." 



2. S. vermiculata, Li7in. Sp. PL ed. i. 223. A much -branched 

 imdershrub. Branches alternate, ascending, not jointed, pubescent. 

 Leaves alternate or fascicled, ovate, slightly dilated and keeled at the 

 base, 2-4 lin. long, more or less hairy. Flowers in dense spikes; 

 bracts elliptic, very obtuse, keeled, membranous at the margin. 

 Perianth 5-lobed ; segments ovate-triangular, subacute, wings inserted 

 below the middle, obovate. Filaments long, exserted, dilated at the 

 base ; anthers oblong, not appendiculate. Disk none. Wings of 

 fruiting perianth inserted at the middle of the lobes, about 2 lin. long, 

 the two inner slightly smaller. — Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 181 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 962 ; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 

 186. ^.^flavescms, Cav. Ic. t. 288. 



N"lle Xiand. Nubia: ha.n]is ot the 'S\\e ne&r Tingnv, Hhrenberr/ e\ Ascherson. 



Var. microphylla, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 181. Branches jjlabrous. 

 Leaves very short.— .S*. microphylla, Cav. Ic. t. 287. 5. hrevifolia, Desf. Fl. Atl. i. 

 218. 



Upper Oulnea. Senegal, Roqer ! 



This species occurs in various forms in Soutli Europe, tlie Canary Islands, North 

 Africa and Western Asia. 



3. S. rubescens, Fraiich. Sert. Sornal. 60. A small much-branched 

 shrub, entirely covered with very short silky whitish indumentum ; 

 branches articulate. Leaves alternate, about 2 lin. long, thick, obtuse, 

 concave above. Flowers in dense heads at the ends of the branches, 

 each one nestling in a bract similar to, but smaller than, the leaves. 

 Perianth ^-partite ; segments obovate, conniving and pilose at the apex, 

 reddish when mature ; wings inserted in the middle of the back, rotun- 

 date, coriaceous, the three outer nearly three times the size of the inner. 

 Disk small, with short rounded lobes. Stamens 5, free. Style bifid to 

 the middle. Utricle depressed. 



Nile Xiand. Somaliland : Bender Gasem, Revoil. 

 Native name " arkadoJ" 



4. S. crassa, M. Bieh. in Mem. Soc. Xat. Mosc. i. (1811), 100. 

 Stem ascending, much-branched, villous ; branches alternate, not 

 jointed. Leaves alternate, 2-8 lin. long, semiterete from a sheathing 

 base, obtuse, whitish villous. Flowers solitary ; bracfts shortly ovate, 

 concave, densely silky. Perianth-segments ovate, acuminate, silky out- 

 side above the insertion of the wing. Disk very shallowly cup-shaped. 

 Anthers oblong, terminated by an erect obovate white appendage. 



