Sliceda.] CVII. CHENOPODIACEiE (baker and CLARKE). 91 



10. SU-SIDA, Forsk. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. G6. 



Flowers polygamous, monoecious, or 2 -sexual. Perianth urn-shaped 

 in the bud ; lobes 5, often deeper in the male flowers. Stamens 5 ; 

 ovary ovoid, truncate at the top ; style hardly any, branches 3 ; ovule 1, 

 suspended on a basal funicle. Fruit enclosed in the succulent perianth, 

 which is sometimes subbaccate ; seed erect or rarely horizontal ; 

 embryo coiled, with little or no albumen. — Undershrubs, glabrous 

 except S. vermiculata, much-branched. Stem continuous. Leaves 

 alternate, or in S. vermiculata to a small extent pseudopposite, fleshy, 

 linear or cylindric, or in S. vermiculata obovoid-subglobose. Flowers 

 solitary or in small dense clusters, in the axils, sometimes running 

 into leafy quasi-terminal spikes. 



!Si)ec'ies 10 (several of these ill-defined), scattered nearly tlirougliout tlic world. 

 Each leaf without a tubercle supporting its base. 



Upper leaves nearly an inch long ; llovvers unisexual 3. S. monoica. 

 Upper leaves much less than an inch long. 

 Flowers very small ; perianth not angular. 



Perianth in fruit rteshy . . . . .1. S.fndicosa. 



Perianth in friiit berry-like . . . .2. S. baccata. 



Flowers rather larger ; perianth somewhat penta- 

 gonal . . . . . . . . 4. /S'. Volkensii. 



Each leaf with a tubercle supporting it at the base . -5. S. vermiculata. 



1. S. fruticosa, Forsk, Fl. ^Egypt,-Arah. cix. and 70, Ic. 9. A 



glabrous, much-branched shrub, 1-2 ft. in diam. Leaves alternate, 

 scattered, linear, narrowed at the very base without any supporting 

 tubercle beneath ; leaves on the branches usually J-J in. long, the 

 lower leaves longer, often ^-| in. long. Flowers very small, axillary, 

 many solitary 2-sexual, some in few-flowered clusters. Perianth 

 broadly cylindric in bud, hardly at all pentagonal. — Moquin in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. P® ser. xxiii. ->ll, t. 20, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 15G ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, iv. 039; Volk. in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 

 80; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 157. Chenopo- 

 dium fruticosum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 221. Salsola fruticosa, Linn. Sp. 

 PI. ed. ii. 321 ; Sowerby, Engl. Bot. t. 685. Lerchea ohtusifolia, Steud. 

 Nomencl. ed. i. 187, 474; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 900. L, 

 maritima, y fruticosa, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 549. 



KTlle Iiand. Eritrea: Massowa, Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 27 \ 67! High Island, 



Harnish group, Slade, 11 ! Somaliland : Shebele River, near Magodoxo, Kirk ! 



liOwer Guinea. Angola : Benguella, Welwitsch, 6322 ! Mossaniedes, Wei- 

 witsch, 6321, 6321 u ! 



Also in North Africa and Europe, extending to England and through the Orient 

 to Western India. 



The Shebele River example has the leaves linear-oblong, very densely crowded, 

 and may be called S. fruticosa, var. maritima, C. R. CI. 



2. S. baccata, Volk, in Engl, d- Prantly Pflanzenfam. iii. lA, 80. 

 Leaves linear. Perianth in fruit more fleshy, coalescent and berry-like. 



