AtHplex 



GHENOPODIACEi^: 



125 



4-partite. Stamens 4. Female flower with 2 bracts ; bracts 

 flat, enclosing the ovary and dilated in fruit, forming a 2-valved 

 covering to the utricle. Perianth wanting ; stigmas 2. Utricle 

 at the base of the greatly enlarged and hardened bracts. Seed 

 with annular embryo surrounding the floury endosperm. 



Species about 120, natives of temperate and subtropical 

 regions of the whole world. 



A. cpistata Humh. d- Bonpl. ex Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 959 (1805); 

 Urb. Symh. Ant. iv. 217. Obione cristata Moq. Chenopod. Eniim. 

 73 (1840) & in DC. Prodr. xiii. pL 2, 110. (Fig. 36.) 



Sandy beach, Pedro Bluff, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9932.— Bermuda, Florida, 

 Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Jan, 

 Curasao, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru. 



Plant floury-white, 1-3 ft. high, with numerous diffuse or trailing 

 branches. Leaves elliptical, or oblong, narrowed to base, 1-2 cm. 1., 6-8 

 mm. br. Male and female flowers on the same cluster, the male small 

 and densely crowded. Perianth of male flower scarcely 1 mm. 1. Bracts 

 of female flower with large teeth on margin, crested; crests with conical 

 teeth. 



3. SALICORNIA L. 



Succulent, leafless, glabrous herbs, with opposite jointed 

 branches. Leaves represented by opposite scales at the nodes. 



Fig. 37. — Salicornia ainhigua Miclix. 



A, Portion of stem and branch. perianth and another perianth 



B, Portion of stem in ttower. empty. 



C, Small portion of B cut lengthwise, D, Fruit cut lengthwise; c, cotyledons; 



showing a flower '.enclosed in the r, radicle. 



E, Seed. 



