Axyris.~\ cxvn. CHENOPODIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 9 



pale-yellowish or reddish-brown when dry ; nerves faint ; petiole short, slender. 

 A. hybrida is, I think, only the longer branched state of A. amaranthoides. 



Var. humifusa, Moq. 1. c.; very small, procumbent. Western Tibet, Thomson, 

 Clarke. Topedunga (with Microgyncecium), Strachey fy Winterbottom. I suspect 

 that the A. prostrata does not differ from this. 



There is a fragment of an Axyris gathered in Lahul by the Rev. H. Jaeschke, and 

 described as a garden weed, which has ovate obtuse leaves 1 in. long, on petioles of 

 the same length. 



8. aXXCROGVNJECXUIK, HooJc.f., Gen. Plant, iii. 56. 



A small diffuse prostrate puberulous or glabrous annual. Leaves alter- 

 nate, petioled, ovate, entire. Flowers moncecious, very minute, clustered, 

 hidden amongst the leaves. MALE fl. ebracteate. Perianth hyaline, 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 1-4, filaments very long. FEM. fl. 2-bracteate, solitary or crowded, 

 bracts unchanged in fruit. Perianth 0. Utricle hyaline, obliquely ovoid, 

 turgid, compressed, covered with scattered processes, and 1-2-auricled at the 

 top; stigmas capillary. Seed erect, testa coriaceous, albumen granular; 

 embryo horseshoe-shaped. 



M. tibeticum, HooJc.f. I. c. 



WESTEEN TIBET ; Topedunga, north of Kumaon, Strachey fy Winterbottom. 

 ; at Tungu, alt. 12-14,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stem branched from the base, branches 1-2 in., slender. Leaves \-\ in., green, 

 rather fleshy, nerves indistinct ; petiole half as long. Flowers microscopic. A very 

 inconspicuous plant. 



9. CORXSPERXKUIK, Linn. 



Annual stiff herbs. Leaves alternate, rigid, 1-nerved, narrow, floral 

 margined with white, hiding the short spikes. Flowers 2-sexual, ebracteo- 

 late. Sepals 1-3, unequal, scarious. Stamens 1-5, unequal. Utricle 

 exserted, orbicular or oblong, compressed, hardened, margined or winged ; 

 stigmas subulate, recurved. Seed erect, adherent to the pericarp, testa 

 coriaceous, albumen floury ; embryo annular. Species 8, S. Europe, N. 

 and W. Asia, China, N.W. America. 



C. hyssopifolium, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 930; glabrous or 

 softly hairy, diffusely branched from the base, leaves linear or narrowly 

 linear-obovate obtuse, spikes axillary and terminal dense or lax, bracts 

 linear oblong green or margin white. Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 140; 

 Sibth. Fl. Grcec. t. 1. 



WESTERN TIBET ; alt. 10-15,000 ft., Falconer, Thomson. DISTEIB. S. France, 

 Caucasus, Soongaria to China. 



Branches 6-10 in., rigid, stout or slender. Leaves |-1J in., thick, green, usually 

 obtuse and apiculate. Spikes 3-6 in., continuous with the branches ; bracts laxly or 

 closely imbricate, - in. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, coriaceous. Utricle oblong, 

 shining, winged all round. 



10. CHENOLEA, Thv.nl. 



Tomentose, silky or villous herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, narrow, 

 entire. Flowers v 'minute, axillary, 2-sexual and female, immersed in wool, 

 ebracteate. Perianth with 5 incurved lobes, at length closing over the 

 utricle, with the lobes usually tubercled or spinous at the l^ick. Stamens 5. 

 Utricle membranous, included in the crustaceous or coriaceous perianth ; 

 stigmas 2-3, capillary. Seed orbicular, horizontal, testa thin, albumen 



