16 cxvn. CHENOPODIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Haloxylon. 



strict or recurved branches a foot long or less, ending in strict spikes 2-6 in. long ; 

 joints of stem -J in. apart, of spikes \ in. or less. Sepals obtuse ; fruiting perianth 

 | in. diain. Style elongate. Staminodes rounded. The Scinde specimens have more 

 fleshy and obtuse leaves ; most of the Coimbatore and all the Panjab ones are very 

 robust with strict branches ; the Burmese ones and one of the Coimbatore are much 

 more slender with recurved branches. In the "Genera Plantaruin' I proposed the name 

 S. Stocksii for the Scinde specimens, regarding them as distinct from the Burmese by 

 their much stouter habit and thicker obtuse leaves, but more copious specimens from 

 all the localities have convinced me that all are forms of one variable plant. Boissier 

 gives Beluchistan as the locality for Stocks's specimens, but those in the Kew and 

 Wight's Herbaria are from Scinde. 



2. H. Thomson!, Bunge in Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 950; a dwarf 

 hoary pale puberulous much-branched shrub, leaves - in. linear terete 

 obtuse floral shorter and small rounded bracteoles villous in the axils, 

 flowers often densely crowded, fruiting sepals with very short rounded tips 

 and orbicular or subreniform scarious entire wings, stigmas 2 linear-oblong. 

 H. Griffithii?, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $' T. (not of Boissier}. 



WESTERN TIBET; alt. 10-14,000 ft., Falconer, Thomson. Shigar Valley, alt. 

 7-8000 ft., Clarke, Sellew. 



Rootstock short, stout, woody, sending up many branches 4-10 in. high; branches 

 woody below, rather slender, glaucous ; branchlets divaricate, rather slender, joints 

 1 in. or less. Flowers 2-3-nate or in globose clusters which are broader than the 

 floral leaves. Perianth -fa in. long in flower, in fruit \ in., wings brown. Ovary 

 laxly woolly. Very near C. Griffithii, but the leaves are always developed, and there 

 are only 2 stigmas. 



Var. gracillima ; 12-18 in. high, extremely slender, paniculately branched, 

 flowers more distant subsolitary. Iskardo, alt. 8000 ft., Clarke. In flower only. 

 Habit much more slender, but the flowers are. identical. 



* leaves reduced to the dilated tips of the joints. 



3. H. salicornicum, Bunge in Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 949 ; a low erect 

 strict pale almost leafless shrub, joints produced into two very short triangular 

 points woolly within, spikes long erect, bracteoles ovate axils woolly, fruiting 

 sepals with very short obtuse tips and flabelliform scarious white crenate 

 wings, stigmas subclavate. Caroxylon salicornicum, Moq. in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. 2. 174. 



SCINDE ; Stocks (in Serb. Dalzell). DISTEIB. Beluchistan, Afghanistan. 



Stem woody, 1-2 ft. high ; branches erect or ascending, terete ; joints of stem 

 in., of branches about 5- in., of spikes shorter. Fruiting. perianth about in. diam., 

 tips of sepals with membranous margins, wings often irregularly developed. Possibly 

 the specimen inDalzell's Herbarium is from Beluchistan, though marked S chide; it is 

 in flower only. 



4. H. multiflorum, Bunge in Boiss. FL Orient, ix. 949 ; a low erect 

 pale much-branched almost leaflless shrub, joints produced into two very 

 short rounded tips, spikes short, bracteoles orbicular concave, sepals very 

 short obtuse, fruiting sepals with very short obtuse tips and orbicular 

 cordate or flabellate scarious wings, stigmas lanceolate. Anabasis multi- 

 flora, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 212. 



NOETH-WESTEBN PAX JAB PLAINS, and the SALT RANGE, ascending to 2000 ft., 

 Steivart. DISTEIB. Afghanistan. 



Closely allied to H. salicornicum, but much lower, 4-6 in. high, with a very stout 

 woody stem and almost fascicled branches ; the leaves and bracteoles are much broader, 

 not woolly, the spikes shorter, and fruiting perianth larger, in. diaui. 



