314 C. ClIENOPODIEJE. 



mens 5, cxscrtod, iu tlic base of tlio calyx ; anthers ovate. 

 Styles 2, setaceous, much exserted, divaricate. Fruit as iu 

 Kochia.—BC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p. 134. 



Pubescent, villous or silvery herbs or undci'shrubs. Leaves altenuite, 

 sessile, narrow-linear, flat or semiterete. Flowers axillary and terminal. — 

 E. diffusa {Chenolea diffusa, Th.), our only species, is a decumbent, littoral 

 plant, with silvery foliage and axillary flowers. Common on various parts 

 of the coast. 



7. WALLINIA, Moq. 



Flowers bisexual, 3-bracted. Calyx deeply urceolate, 5-fid ; 

 segments herbaceous, entire, unchanged. Stamens 5, in the 

 base of the calyx ; filaments compressed ; anthers sagittate. 

 Ovary ovate ; styles 4, short, ap])roaching in pairs, linear- 

 clavate. Fruit nut-like, ellipsoid, scarcely compressed, 8- 

 ribbed, sitting on a callus, surrounded by the sepals ; pericarp 

 herbaceous, closely adhering to the seed. Testa of seed bony ; 

 embryo subanuular. — DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2. p. 143. 



An erect, branching herb, with alternate, entire, glabrous, fleshy leaves. 

 Flowers sessile, minute, glomerate, dispersed in dense, slender, simple, leaf- 

 less spikes. Bracts membranous, acute, persistent. 



8. SALICORNIA, Tourn. 



Flowers bisexual or polygamous, not scaly, immersed in 

 hollows of the axis of inflorescence. Calyx bag-like, toothed 

 at margin, at length thickened, and furnished with a minute, 

 transverse wing. Stamens 1-2, hypogynous. Ovary ovate ; 

 styles 2, subulate, connate at base. Fruit utricular, com- 

 pressed, included in the closed, minutely- winged calyx ; peri- 

 carp thin, hispidulous, adhering to the seed. Seed vertical ; 

 embryo conduplicate, thick, green ; cotyledons dilated ; albu- 

 men eccentric, small. — DC. Prod. -^iii. pt. 2. p. 144. 



Herbs or halfshrubs, growing in salt ground or by the muddy seashore, 

 ■with jointed stems, leafless or minutely leafy, succulent and glabrous. 

 Branclies opposite. Joints truncate, the uppermost bearing flowers. — 

 S. herhacea is common on the Cape flats, etc. 



9. ARTHROCNEMUM, Moq. 



Character of Salicornia, except : Calyx vcntricose, truncate 

 or 3-5-toothed, never appendicled. Fruit enclosed in the 

 open, inflated, fleshy calyx ; pericarp membranous, free from 

 seed. Euibryo half-annular, grecnisli ; albumen central and 

 lateral, copious or scanty. — DC. Prod. xiii. j^t. 2. p. 150. 



Plants, witli the aspect o( Salicornia. — A.frndcosum, Moq., grows abun- 

 dantly at Hout Bay and other parts of the coast. 



