Sucvda.] cxvu. CHENOPODIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 15 



C. A. Mey. in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. 399, and Ic. Fl. Boss. t. 195 ; Moq. in DC. 

 Prodr. xiii. 2. 166. 



WESTERN TIBET; Parang Valley and Hanle Plains, alt. 14-15,000 ft., Thomson. 

 DISTEIB. Soongaria, Siberia. 



Glaucous; branches 4-8 in., spreading and ascending, white. Leaves scattered 

 or crowded, pale when dry. Bracts microscopic, jagged. Floivers extremely 

 minute; perianth fleshy but thin. The black seeds occur indiscriminately amongst 

 the pale. 



6. S. microsperma, Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 785 ; diffusely branched 

 from the base, leaves J-^ in. linear-oblong obtuse flattish floral oblong, 

 flowers very minute 2-5-nate axillary 2-sexual, perianth subglobose lobes 

 equal rounded obscurely tubercled in fruit, utricle orbicular membranous 

 adherent to the perianth, seed vertical or horizontal orbicular with a long 

 beak, testa thinly coriaceous pale. Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 943. Schoberia 

 microsperma, C. A. Mey, in Eichw. PL Casp. Cauc. 14, t. 13. Chenopodina 

 prostrata & parviflora, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 163, 165. C. pygmaea, 

 Moq. ? Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



"\VESTEEN TIBET; banks of the Indus, and of Lake Thogji Chumo, alt. 

 13-15,500 ft., Thomson ; Lake Pangong, H. Sirachey. DISTBIB. iberia, Lake Aral, 

 Soongaria. 



This appears to me to be very near S. corniculata, having the same structure and 

 minute size of perianth seed, &c., but the perianth is globose without the gibbosities 

 of that plant, and the seed has the radicular end produced into a long beak. 

 $. microsperma is described as having a black shining testa, which I do not find in 

 either the Tibetan or Soongarian specimens, and it is reasonable to suppose that the 

 seeds are dimorphic in this as in S, corniculata. 



15. HALOXYLON, Bunge. 



Shrubs or small trees with opposite jointed branches. Leaves opposite, 

 triangular and very short, or longer and terete. Floivers small solitary or 

 spicate, axillary, 2-sexual, 2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, concave, accrescent and 

 horizontally winged. Stamens 5 or fewer, on the margin or base of a 

 cupular disk with alternating rounded or square staminodes. Utricle 

 globose or depressed, enclosed in the perianth ; stigma 2-lobed or stigmas 

 3-4 recurved. Seed horizontal, testa membranous, albumen ; embryo 

 piano-spiral. Species 8-10, S. Europe, W. and Central Asia, Indian. 



This genus might be united to Anabasis, differing only in the position of 

 the seed. 



* Leaves distinct. 



1. K. recurvum, Bunge in Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 949 ; tall, glabrous, 

 pruinose, dark brown, paniculately branched, branches divaricate, leaves 

 \r^ in. trigonous or semiterete ovate- subulate or ellipsoid obtuse or apute, 

 floral about equalling the axillary flowers, stigma obtuse or obscurely 2- 

 lobed, fruiting sepals with large erect ovate obtuse lips and orbicular erose 

 scarious wings. H. recurvum & H. Stocksii, Hook. f. in Gen. PL iii. 70. 

 Caroxylon recurvum, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 175. C. indicum, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1794. Salsola Stocksii, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 2. iv. 75. S. Lana, Stocks 

 mss. S. recurva, Wall. Cat. 6943. 



The WESTEEN PANJAB PLAINS and SALT RANGE, ascending to 2500 ft., Edge- 

 worth, Stewart. SCINDE, Stocks. SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA; Coimbatore, Wight. 

 BuEMA; banks of the Irawaddi, Wallich. DISTEIB. Afghanistan, Yunan. 



A straggling bush, blackish when dry, several feet high with long spreading 



