Anabasis.] cxvn. CHENOPODIACE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 19 



tary in opposite axils spicate, staminodes ciliolate, fruiting perianth with 3 

 conniving wings the posterior largest. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 970 (from 

 which the above character is taken). 



The PANJAB ; by the Jhelum River, Altchison. DISTEIB. Soongaria, Turkestan, 

 Altai. 



The only specimen is not in flower ; but it precisely accords with the Soongarian 

 plant. I have refrained from quoting the synonyms that Boissier (on Bunge's autho- 

 rity) gives, because I suspect some confusion to exist. Anabasis intermedia, Moq. and 

 A. subulifolia, Schrenk, must, according to the characters .attributed to them, 

 differ much from this. Nor do I see why this, a.11 the specimens of which are as 

 leaflless as a Salicornia, should be called phyllophora. Boissier gives Damascus 

 as the locality for his plant, and speaks doubtfully of its identity with the 

 Soongarian. 



2. A. setifera, Moq. in Chenop. JSnum.I64, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. 

 2. 214 ; a dwarf leafless glaucous pale shrub, stem rough when dry, leaves 

 short oblong thick fleshy semiterete obtuse with a deciduous bristle, 

 axils woolly, ^flowers crowded in the upper axils, floral leaf oblong or 

 rounded, bracts minute linear membranous ciliate, staminodes subquadrate, 

 fruiting perianth 3- in. diam., wings 3-5 obovate or orbicular- cordate hyaline 

 not nerved, stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 970. 



The PANJAB ; on the Salt Range, Stewart. DISTEIB. Persia, Arabia, Egypt. 



The solitary specimen precisely accords with the A. subulifolia, Schrenk, of Hauss- 

 knecht's Iter Orientale from Persia, which differs altogether from Schrenk's character 

 of that species and from A. phyllophora, with which Boissier unites subulifolia. It 

 agrees with the characters of A. setifera in everything but having only 3 winged 

 sepals instead of 5, and. as I find 3 and 4 in some of Bunge's specimens gathered and 

 named by himself, this character is evidently of no value. 



IS. HAZiOCHARXS, Moq. 



Hispidulous annuals, branches often whorled. Leaves alternate, sessile, 

 fleshy, tipped with rigid hairs. Flowers axillary, solitary, 2-sexual, 2-bracteo- 

 late. Sepals 5, lanceolate, hyaline. Stamens 5, on a fleshy disk ; anthers 

 linear, cells narrow parallel separate, connective inflated ; staminodes 0. 

 Utricle included, ovoid or orbicular, compressed, membranous, rugulose ; 

 stigmas 2, slender. Seed suspended, inverse, lenticular, laterally com- 

 pressed, testa membranous, albumen 0; embryo piano-spiral. Species 5, 

 Persia, Afghanistan and Central Asia. 



1. H. violacea, Bunge Anabas. Revis.QS, t. 1, f. 3 ; a small sparsely 

 hispid prostrate diffusely branched annual, hairs very long, leaves linear 

 subtriquetrous obtuse floral oblong equalling or exceeding the bracteoles, 

 spikes subcapitate, perianth squarrosely Hispid with very long hairs, 

 connective produced into an obovoid violet appendage longer and broader 

 than the anther-cells. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 975. 



WESTEEN PANJAB PLAINS, the SALT RANGE, alt. 2000 ft., and PESHAWUB 

 VALLEY, common, Stewart. DISTEIB. Affghanistan, Beluchistan, S.E. Persia. 



Branched from the base; branches slender, 3-6 in., tips ascending. Leaves 

 scattered, \-\ in. Floivers minute, concealed by the long bristles. 



2.? H. sulphur ea, Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 201, in part-, 

 erect, hispid with long bristles, leaves linear subtrigonous obtuse floral 

 oblong about equalling the lanceolate hirsute bracteoles, flowers in capitate 

 clusters which are spicate on terminal short branches, outer sepals villous, 

 connective produced into a sessile elongate ellipsoid yellow appendage 



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