90 CVII. CHENOPODIACE^ (bAKER AND WRIGHT). [Sulsola. 



the apex. Leaves in small glomerules spaced out on the branchlets, 

 minute, hemispherical, membranous at the edge, puberulous at the 

 apex. Flowers solitary, axillary ; bracteoles triangular-hemispherical, 

 cucullate, with a membranous margin. Perianth very small, 5-partite ; 

 lobes broadly ovate-triangular, cucullate, thickened in the centre of the 

 back, membranous at the edge, ciliate towards the base ; wings inserted 

 at the centre of the back, membranous, suborbicular. Stamens 5 ; 

 anthers sagittate, apiculate. Disk indistinctly lobed. Ovary depressed 

 globose ; style short ; stigmas 2 (rarely 8), oblong-linear. 



lO'lle Ziand. Eritrea: on plaius on the way to Saberguma, Schweinfurth, 95 

 of 1891 collection. 

 Also in Arabia. 



8. S. Bottse^ Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 064 in ohs. A much-branched 

 glabrous shrub. Branches patent, o-7 in. long, virgate, pinnately 

 branched. Leaves few, minute, fleshy, shortly deltoid, adpressed, 

 keeled. Flowers spaced out on the branches, sessile ; bracts 3, ovate, 

 concave, hyaline-margined. Perianth-segments 5, persistent, lanceo- 

 late, 2 lin. long, J lin. wide, very dark brown, hyaline-margined. 

 Filaments short; anthers sagittate, about 1 lin. long, with a short 

 apic.il appendage. Ovary ovoid ; style shortly subulate ; stigmas 2, 

 subulate, divergent. Wings of fruiting perianth inserted below the 

 middle of the segments, 8 outer larger, 2 lin. long, nearly 3 lin. 

 wide, tiabellate, 2 inner slightly shorter and about half the width of 

 the outer. — Var. Fauroti, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. i. 134. Ilalo- 

 thamnus Bottce, Jaub. & Spach, 111. PI. Orient, ii. 50, t. 136. Caroxylon 

 Bottd', Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 178. 



wile Xiand. Somaliland : on rocks near Obock, Fanrof , niul without precise 

 lociility, Mrs. Lort Phillips / 

 Also in Arabia. 



Imperfectly known species. 



9. S. Candida, Fenzl e.v Schinz in Bull. Jlerh. Boiss. v. A]ypend. iii. 

 62, name only. 



iMO-wer Guinea, (xerinan South-west Africa : Hereroland, Liideritz, 168. 

 l^robably identical with S. Zeyheri, Schinz. 



10. S. globuliflora, Fenzl ex Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 

 Append, iii. 62, name only. 



Xiower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Great Xamaqualand, Obib 

 {\]\i\h?),Schenck,^'iQ. 



11. S. tuberculata, Fenzl ex Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 178 ; 

 Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append, iii. ij'2. Caroxylon tuberculatum, 

 Moquin, l.c 



JMOwer Guinea. German South-west Africa: Great Xamaqualand; Kehoboth, 

 Fleck. 33GA. 



