92 CVII. CHENOPODIACEiE (bAKER AND CLARKE). [StUEcUt. 



— Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 157. Schanginia 

 haccaia, Moquin in DC. Piodr. xiii. ii. 154 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 944. 



irile Xiand. Eritrea : Massowa, Schtveinfurth ^ Hiva, 49 ! 

 Also in Egypt and Arabia. 



This plant appears hardly difPerent from S. frutieosa ; it can scarcely be 

 S. haccata, Forsk., as J'orskal says of his plant " leaves ovate." 



?K S. monoica, Forsk. Fl. uEgypt.-Arab. cix. and 70. Upper leaves 

 nearly an inch long. Flowers rather larger than in S. frutieosa, 

 and mostly 1-sexual; otherwise as S. frutieosa. — Moquin in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. ii. 156; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 040; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iii. 1 A, 80 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 

 158 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 171. 



wile Xiand. Eritrea : Mount Ghedem, near Massowa, Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 

 172 ! Kordofaiv, Pfund, 262 ! Somaliland, James Sf Thrtipp ! British East Africa: 

 Mombasa, Wakefield ! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Tiinga, Holst^ 2111 ! 



Also in North Africa and the Orient, extending to Western India. 



4. S. Volkensii, C. B. CI. Glabrous. Upper leaves \ in. long, 

 oblong. Flowers in clusters, running into nearly continuous spikes. 

 Perianth larger than in S. frutieosa, somewhat pentagonal, in fruit 

 half-baccate. — S. rermieulata, Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 

 lA, 80, fig. ;^.8, A-E. 



irile ^and. Nubia: co&st reg'\or., £e)if ! Eritrea: 'Massowra, Schweinfurth <^ 

 Hiva, 212 I Somaliland: Shebele River, near Magodoxo, Kirk! Sudan, Brown, 

 1217! 



Also in Nortliern Africa. 



This sjiecies is Balansa 1046 (collected at Biskra, in Algiers), and issued as 

 S. rermiculata. It is not S. rermicitlata, Forsk., but probably is S. rermiculaia^ 

 Mocjuin, partly. 



5. S. vermiculata, Forsk. Fl. jEgypt.-Arab. 70, Ic. IS B. A 



much-branched spreading shrub, sometimes 18 in. in diam. Branches 

 white-tomentose and in the upper part hairy. Leaves |-^ in. long, 

 ovate, subglobose, farinose, glandular-pubescent ; beneath each leaf is 

 a tubercle decurrent on the stem. Leaves sessile, on some of the upper 

 branches not rarely pseudopposite, as figured by Forskal. Flowers in 

 dense spikes ; bracts spirally placed, suborbicular, whitened on the 

 margins ; filaments conspicuously exserted. 



JXlle Xiand. Nubia: coast region, 5en^.' 



Also in Egypt. 



Var. puberula, C. B. CI. Branches with wliite tomentum, but scarcely pubescent 

 at the t\\)s. ]>eaves ^ in. long, and (in Schweinfurth's fine examples) ^ in. long, nearly 

 linear, but have the small sujjporling tubercle beneath them. — Sevada Schimperi, 

 Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 154; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 

 159. 



