Atriplex.] cxvn. OHEXOPODIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 7 



2. 93; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 909; Ledeb. Ic. Fl. Alt. t. 42. A. laciniata, 

 Aitchison Cat. Panjab PI. 125, and Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T/ 



N.W. INDIA and the PANJAB ; from the Jumna westward. KUNAWTTE and 

 WESTEEN TIBET, alt. 8-12,000 ft., Falconer, Thomson. DJSTEIB. Affghanistan, 

 Turkestan, Soongaria, Altai Mts. 



Branched from the root ; branches firm, 1-2 ft. Leaves usually small, 1-1 in., 

 pale ; petiole slender. Fruiting -bracts very variable, from ovate with a cuneate base 

 to orbicular, -^ in. long. I fear that this is only a dry country form of A. laciniata, 

 L., with white stems, small leaves, and hardened disft of the bracts, which Boissier 

 describes as smooth or tubercled (they are quite smooth in the Indian plant). The 

 name seems a singularly inappropriate one. 



3. A. rosea ^Linn. ? Sp. PL Ed. 2, 1493 ; green, mealy, branches very many 

 diffuse slender ascending, leaves small petioled rhombic-ovate with obtuse 

 sides and tips entire or subsinuate, male clusters in short axillary spikes, 

 fruiting bracts small broadly triangular-hastate or flabelliform crenate 

 thin disk coarsely ' reticulate or rugose. SchJcuhr Handb. t. 350; Fl. Dan. 

 1284; Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 911. ? A. tartarica /3 virgata, Boiss L c. 910. 



WESTEEN TIBET ; banks of Salt Lakes, alt. 12-14,000 ft., in Sassar, Haule, &c., 

 Thomson. DISTEIB. (of A. rosea} Westward to the Atlantic. 



A very slender plant ; branches 4-6 in., greenish-white. Leaves \-\ in., base 

 cuneate. Bracts about in. broad or long, sometimes sinuate-lobed, subsessile or 

 conti'acted into a hardened pedicel. An obscure plant. 



*** Perennials, ivith monoecious flowers. 



4. A. repens, Roth Nov. Sp. 377 ; shrubby, white, stem woody pros- 

 trate rooting, leaves small petioled oblong elliptic or suborbicular obtuse, 

 male clusters in short branched spikes, fruiting bracts united into a thick 

 corky obovate or orbicular turgid pouch with thin free tips contracted at 

 the base into a stout cylindric pedicel, disk smooth or rugose. Moq. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 99. A. Koenigii, Wall. Cat. 6951. A. cristata, Kcenig 

 mss. A. Belangeri, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 913. Obione Belangeri, Moq. I. c. 

 108. O. nummularia, Moq. Emim. Chenopod. 72. 0. Koenigii, Moq. I. c. 

 109 ; Wight Ic. 1. 1790. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Koenig Tuticoreen in Thmevelly, Wight. CEYLON, 

 Thwaites. DISTEIB. ? Affghanistan, Persia. 



Branches woody, 1-2 ft. long, straggling or tufted and short. Leaves J-l in. 

 long, thick, tip rounded or retuse, base cuneate ; petiole very short. Fruiting -bracts 

 very variable, 5^- in. long or broad, sometimes compressed, smooth, at others almost 

 globose with thick processes on the surface, lips very short crenate. Radicle pointing 

 upwards. The Affghan plant has smaller bracts, but of the same corky character, and 

 with thick cylindric pedicels. 



5. A. Stocksii, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. iv. 73 ; shrubby, white, branches 

 woody prostrate or suberect, leaves small petioled oblong elliptic or subor- 

 bicular obtuse, male clusters axillary or in short leafy spikes, fruiting bracts 

 cuneate at the base only orbicular or broadly ovate and suddenly contracted 

 into a short pedicel disk small, lips broad quite entire thin reticulate. A. 

 Griffithii, var. Stocksii, Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 916. A. repens, Aitchison 

 Cat. PL Panjab 125. Obione Stocksii, Wight Ic. t. 1789 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 212. 



SCINDE ; salt marshes at Kurrachee, Stocks, Vicary. GTJZEEAT ; common, Dalz. 

 $ Gibs. 



Habit and foliage very much like A. repens, but leaves often larger and fruiting- 

 bracts very different. Boissier has made this a variety of A. Griffithii, which appears 



