4 cxvii. CHENOPODIAGE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Chenopodium. 



on each side, clusters in lax axillary and terminal almost leafless corymbose 

 panicles, sepals obtusely keeled spreading in fruit, seed horizontal large 

 opaque pitted hardly keeled. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 902 ; Moq, in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. 2. 68 ; Fl. Dan. t. 2049. 



WESTEBN TIBET; Ladak, alt. 12,000 ft., Thomson. PESHAWFE ; Stewart. 

 DISTEIB. Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia, N. America (introduced). 



Stout or slender, with spreading branches, 1-3 ft. high, odour heavy. Leaves 

 3-5 in., almost shining, broadly ovate, pale green, thin, 3-5-nerved from near the 

 usually cordate base. Clusters large or small. 



4. C. murale, Linn. Sp. PI. 219 ; nearly glabrous, leaves bright- 

 green rhombic or deltoid-ovate acute sides Ipbed and sharply toothed base 

 cuneate, clusters in lax or dense axillary divaricate cymes, sepals obtusely 

 keeled incurved in fruit, seed horizontal dotted acutely keeled opaque. 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 902 ; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 69 ; Fl. Dan. 

 t. 2048. 0. Gandhium, Ham. (& Ohamrium, Ham.), Wall. Cat. 6953. 

 C. Hookerianum, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xii. 2. 68. 



UPPES GANGETIC VALLEY and the PAN JAB ; Royle, &c. KTTMAON and NEPAL ; 

 Hamilton, &c. DECCAN PENINSULA ; at Bangalore, Coimbatore and elsewhere. 

 CETLON ; at Trincomalee, G-lenie. DISTEIB. Ubiquitous. 



Rather foetid. Stem 6-14 in., stout or slender, erect or ascending ; branches 

 decumbent. Leaves |-3 in. broad, rather shining ; petiole long or short. Spikes 

 sometimes very slender. 



5. C. glaucum, Linn. Sp. PI. 220 ; branches decumbent or prostrate, 

 leaves oblong or ovate-oblong sinuate-lobed or -toothed very mealy 

 beneath, clusters in short dense axillary spikes, sepals keeled nearly 

 covering the utricle. Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 338 ; Moq. in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. 2. 72. 



WESTERN TIBET; Ladak, alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson. DISTEIB. Europe, N. 

 and W. Asia, N. America, S. Chili, Australasia. 



Much and widely branched, often succulent ; stem 6-18 in., shining. Leaves 

 i-1 in., tip obtuse or rounded, base cuueate. Spikes |-1 in., simple or compound; 

 lateral flowers usually 2-4-merous, with a vertical very small seed; terminal 5-merous, 

 with a larger often horizontal seed. 



** Strongly aromatic glandular herbs. Embryo incompletely annular. 



6. C. Botrys, Linn. Sp. PI. 219; erect, glandular-pubescent, branches 

 and cymes spreading and recurved, lower leaves petioled ovate or oblong* 

 deeply sinuate or lobulate upper oblanceolate more entire, cymes short 

 axillary and in long terminal racemes, sepals glandular-pubescent enclosing 

 the utricle, seed horizontal subglobose smooth margin obtuse. Moq. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 75; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 903; Sibth. Fl. Grac.i. 253. 

 C. ilicifolium, Griff. Notul. iv. 337, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 521. C.nepalense, 

 Hort. Monsp. Ambrosia Botrys, Moq. Chenop. Enum. 37 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 73. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 4-10,000 ft. PESHAWUE ; 

 Stewart. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 11-14,000 ft., a weed in fields. DISTKIB. Europe, 

 N. and W. Asia, N. Africa, introduced into America. 



Very aromatic. Stem grooved and ribbed, 6-18 in. high, stout or slender. Leaves 

 1-3 in., usually oak-like, very obtuse ; petiole variable. Cymes short, branched, 

 flowers solitary or clustered, minute. 



7. C. ambrosioides, Linn. Sp. PL 219 ; erect, puberulous and glan- 

 dular, branches strict, leaves shortly petioled oblong or lanceolate obtuse 



