20 cxvn. CHENOPODIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Halocliaris. 



much longer and broader than the anther-cells. Bunge Anabas. Revis. 63, 

 t. 1, f. 2 ; Soiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 975. Halimocnemis sujphurea, Moq. 

 Chenop. Enum. 152. 



The PANJAB ; west of the Indus, T. W. H. Tollert. DISTRIB. Assyria, Persia. 



A much larger and stouter plant than H. violacea, with capitate clusters of leaves 

 and flowers $ in. diam., forming long interrupted spikes. I have seen but one speci- 

 men, which differs from the only authentic one I have seen of H. sulphurea in the larger 

 more globose heads, and longer appendage of the anthers. 



19. HALOGETON, C. A. Meyer. 



Annuals. Leaves alternate, sessile, fleshy, obtuse or tipped with a 

 long bristle. Flowers minute, axillary, clustered, polygamous, immersed in 

 wool, 2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, 2 outermost winged or gibbous, hyaline. 

 Stamens 5 or fewer, filaments linear, anthers simple ; staminodes or 5, 

 lingulate. Utricle included, ovoid, membranous ; stigmas 2, filiform. 

 Seed usually inverse, laterally compressed, rostellate, testa membranous 

 or subcoriaceous, albumen 0; embryo spiral. Species 5, Spain, NT. Africa, 

 West and Central Asia. 



This genus would perhaps be better united with Salsola. There are in Falconer's 

 and Thomson's Tibetan collections flowerless specimens of what is probably another 

 species, with more or less woolly stems, leaves cylindric |-| in. long, terminated by 

 a very long stout pale-brown bristle. 



K. g'lomeratus, C. A. Mey. in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. '378, and Ic. Ross. 

 t. 40 ; a much-branched soft glaucous or hoary erect or ascending leafy 

 green herb, leaves minute cylindrical ellipsoid or obovate often tipped with 

 a fugacious bristle axils glabrous or woolly, floral and bracteoles similar, 

 flowers very minute solitary or clustered, sepals 4-5 hyaline lanceolate 

 fruiting with long claws and fan-shaped or orbicular white pink or brownish 

 hyaline veined wings. Soiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 985 ; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 

 2. 206. Anabasis glomerata, -M". JBieb. in Act. Mosq. i. 110, and iv. 19. 

 H. tibeticus, Bunge mss. 



WESTERN TIBET ; alt. 12-14,000 ft., abundant, Falconer, Thomson, &c. DISTEIB. 

 Siberia, Soongaria, Turkestan, Affghanistan. 



Branched from the base ; primary branches 2-10 in. long, white, as thick as a 

 goose-quill or less. Leaves often in clusters (arrested branches) - % in. long, green, 

 the larger with membranous basal auricles. Fruiting -perianths densely crowded, 

 - in. diam. Bunge (in lett.) regards the Tibetan plant as different from the 

 Soongarian, but I can find no character ; both are very variable in the size of the leaves 

 and of the fruiting perianth. Boissier describes the flowers as clustered, the outer in 

 each cluster female, the rest 2-sexual and diandrous. 



20. BASEXiXiA, Linn. 



A much-branched twining fleshy herb. Leaves alternate, broad, entire. 

 Flowers spicate, sessile, 2-sexual, white red or violet ; bract minute, 

 caducous ; bracteoles 2, united into a 2-lipped cup and adnate to the 

 perianth. Perianth fleshy, 5-fid, at length baccate, lobes short incurved. 

 Stamens 5, on the mouth of the tube, filaments short, erect in bud ; anthers 

 versatile. Utricle globose, included, thin, adhering to the seed ; stigmas 3, 

 linear-clavate. Seed erect, subglobose, testa crustaceous, albumen scanty ; 

 embryo piano-spiral, cotyledons large thin involute. 



B. rubra. Linn.; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 223; LamJc. III. 



