18 cxvu. CHENOPODiACEJi. (J. D. Hooker.) \_SaMa. 



become winged; their indurated bases vary from ^-} in. long, are pale and. smooth, 

 rounded and often gibbous, or bigibbous below ; they are very thick and woody ; they 

 occur on the same plant with the normal fruiting-bracts. Ledebour notices a similar 

 condition of S. Kali as lusus nodiflora (Fl. Ross. iii. 799). He regards collina as a 

 species between S. Kali & tamariscinum, differing from Kali in the bracts being never 

 rigidly spinescent, and the fruiting perianth being always membranous below, and 

 from both in the minute perianth wings : these distinctions altogether break down in 

 Tibetan and other examples of S. collina. 



'** Unarmed shrubs. Leaves minute subglobose. 



3. S. foetida, Del. Fl. JEgypt. 57 ; a stout hoary pale excessively 

 "branched shrub with t stout stem and filiform crowded branchlets clothed 

 with uniformly minute subglobose fleshy leaves, floral leaves imbricate 

 rather longer, forming short spikes, bracteoles like the leaves, fruiting 

 perianth minute (^ in. diam.) silvery-white, wings symmetrical rounded 

 margins often overlapping, stigmas 2 recurved. Boiss, Fl. Orient, iv. 961. 

 S. Moorcroftiana, Wall. Cat. 6947 (and misspelt S. Marosteum by Moq. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 191). S. indica, Herb. Royle. S. spinescens, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1795. Caroxylon fo3tidum, Moq. in I. c. 178. 



PANJAB PLAINS, UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN, from Delhi, Moorcroft, westwards, 

 Tloyle, Edgeworth, &c. SCINDE, Stocks. DISTBIB. Beluchistan, Persia, Arabia, N.- 

 Africa. 



A large shrub, stinking of rotten fish (in Egypt, not hitherto observed in India), 

 forming dense masses of filiform twigs and minute leaves, amongst which the little 

 perianths shine like silver .stars. The branchlets often bear globose villous galls, 

 5-| in. diam., beset with linear leaves, and caused by insect-puncture. 



4. S. verrucosa, M. Biel. in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Mosq. i. 141 ; 

 a stout hoary shrub or tree with the habit and leaves of S. fcetida, but 

 flowers in dense clusters and spikes, and fruiting perianth ^-^ in. diam. 

 dark brown. Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 961 ; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 180. 

 S. dendroides, Pall. III. PI. t. 14 (with the leaves too thick, according to 

 Boiss.}. S. georgica, Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 814. 



NOETH-WESTEEN PANJAB j lower hills and the Peshawur Valley, Steivart. 

 DISTEIB. Siberia, Persia, Armenia, the Caucasus, S. Russia. 



Boissier says that this differs from S. foetida in the lower leaves being filiform, 

 1-1^ lines long, and the others he describes as " J-terete filiform slender;" but this 

 does not at all agree with any of the numerous specimens in Herb. Kew, except one 

 of a var. glabrescens (Caucasus, HohenacJcer). Some specimens have smaller and 

 white fruiting-perianth, approaching those of S. foetida. This plant is (like S. foetida} 

 infested with galls. 



17. ANABASIS, Linn. 



Perennial herbs or shrubs, branches jointed. Leaves opposite, fleshy 

 or obsolete. Flowers small, solitary or clustered, axillary, 2-sexual, female 

 minutely 2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, scarious, fruiting winged or not. Stamens 

 5, on a short disk, alternating with 5 staminodes. Utricle included or 

 exserted, subglobose, dor sally compressed, dry or fleshy; style short, 

 stigmas 2 subulate. Seed erect, orbicular, compressed, testa membranous 

 or coriaceous, albumen 0; embryo spiral. Species 15, S. Europe, N. Africa, 

 ~W. and Central Asia. 



1. A. phyllophora, Kar. 8f Kir. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosq. 1840; a 

 dwarf glabrous pale leafless shrub, stems many erect from a woody stock, 

 joints long terminating in two triangular acute teeth (leaves), flowers soli- 



