14 cxvii. CHESOPODIACEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sucecfa. 



it has a longer fruiting-perianth than S. fruticosa, which is very shortly lobed, and 

 the bracts are smaller and more entire ; it is also more erect. 



3. S. nudiflora,lTo^. in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. xxiii. 316, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. 2. 155; stem woody diffusely branched, leaves semiterete obtuse ellipsoid 

 or the lower linear or obovate-oblong, bracts hyaline toothed often forming 

 persistent stellate tufts, flowers crowded in dense globose clusters forming 

 leafless spikes polygamous, fruiting perianth obovoid lobes short, styles 3, 

 seed erect, testa crustaceous black. Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 213. S. indica, 

 Moq. I c. ; Wight Ic. t. 1796 ; Thwaites Enum. 246 ; Dalz. fy Gils. I. c. ; 

 Wall. Cat. 6946 A. Salsola nudiflora, Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 1313 ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 60 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 270. S. fruticosa ? Wall. Cat. 6944. S. 

 elata, Wight in Wall. Cat. Lc. Chenopodium prostratum, Roxb. mss. 



On the sea coast; BENGAL, BOMBAY, the DECCAN and CEYLON. 



I retain this species with much hesitation, suspecting that it is a form of S. 

 monoica, Forsk., or S. vermiculata, Forsk. It is evidently a common coast plant; 

 and there is a good figure of it in Roxburgh's Icones, with the mss. name of Cheno- 

 podium prostratum, by which it is by inadvertence alluded to (under S. indica) in 

 Roxburgh's Flora (ii. 62). The stellate tuft of toothed bracts left at the axils of 

 leaves after the fruiting perianths have fallen away, is often a very marked character, 

 as are the leafless spikes of confluent globose many-fld. clusters. 



** Annuals. Styles 2. 



4. S. maritima, Dumort. Fl. Bdg. 22 ; erect, glaucous green, gla-orous, 

 branched usually from the base, leaves linear or filiform semiterete floral 

 very small, clusters of flowers minute in very slender spikes, fruiting perianth 

 depressed lobes rounded covering the utricle, styles long slender, seed usually 

 horizontal. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 941; Trimen in Journ. Bot. xxiii. (1885) 

 173. S. nudiflora, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 155. Chenopodium rnariti- 

 mum, Linn. ; Engl. Bot. t. 633 ; Fl. Dan. t. 489. Schoberiamaritiroa, C. A. 

 Met/, in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. 400. Chenopodina maritima, 3Ioq. L c. 161. C. 

 indica, Wight I. c. t. 1793. Salsola salsa. Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. 44, t. 83. 

 S. indica, Willd. Sp. PL i. 1317, ex Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 62 ; Wall. Cat. 6946 F ; 

 'Grah. Cat. Boml>. PL 170. S. nudiflora, Wall. Cat. 6945. S. sativa, 

 Wight in Wall. Cat. I. c. 



UPPEE GANGETIC PLAINS ; Delhi, Clarice. Sea coast of BENGAL, BOMBAY, the 

 DECCAN and CEYLON. DISTJBIB. Siam, Europe, N. Africa, .N. and W. Asia, N. 

 America. 



This appears to be the European plant, though apparently sometimes becoming 

 woody, if not shrubby. Roxburgh indeed describes it as a perennial, but his figure is 

 that of an annual. Graham states that it is universally eaten and an essential article 

 of food during famines. Wallich's (not Willdenou's) Salsola nudiflora is a common 

 state with the floral leaves shorter than the clusters. Trimen (I.e.) describes as an 

 erect variety of 8. maritima, a plant with slender ascending branches and very short 

 leafy bracts, which is found in salt pans in Ceylon with 8. nudiflora & indica, adding 

 that it is not the S. indica of Wight Ic. t. 1793. I have no material for ascertaining 

 what it is. 



5. S. corniculata, HooJc.f. in Gen. PL iii. 67 ; slender, small, diffusely 

 branched from the base, leaves \-% in. oblong or linear-oblong obtuse floral 

 ovate, flowers very minute 2-3-nate axillary unisexual ?, perianth turbinate 

 fleshy lobes gibbous behind or two produced into rounded vertical wings, 

 utricle orbicular membranous adherent to the perianth, seed vertical or 

 horizontal not or hardly beaked some subglobose with thinly coriaceous pale 

 testa, others lenticular with black crustaceous testa. Schoberia corniculata, 



