22 CHENOPODIACE&. [ CHENOPODIUM. 



Leaves fleshy, J terete ; embryo spiral ; albu- 

 men none :* 



Sepals not winged . . . . .3. STL&DA. 

 Sepals transversely winged . . .4. SALSOLA. 



Stems twining to the right ; leaves flat, membran- 

 ous ; bracteoles 2, broad, adnate to the face of 

 the perianth ; anthers versatile ; embryo spiral . 5. BASELLA. 



1. CHENOFODIUM, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 3. 

 Annual or perennial erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 entire lobed or toothed. Flowers minute, 2-sexual, in axillary 

 clusters or cymes ; bracts and bracteoles none. Perianth usually 

 5-lobed ; segments concave, incurved. Stamens 5 or fewer, hypo- 

 gynous or almost perigynous, anthers 2 -celled. Disk none or 

 annular. Ovary depressed-globose, rarely ovoid ; stigmas 2-5, 

 sometimes united below in a style ; ovule solitary, subsessile. 

 Fruit a membranous utricle, enclosed in the perianth. Seed usually 

 horizontal, testa crustaceous or coriaceous, embryo nearly or quite 

 .annular, surrounding the floury albumen. Species about 60, in all 

 parts of the world. The fruit of some of the species is dimorphic. 



A tall scentless herb ; seeds smooth and shining . 1. C. album. 

 A low rather foetid herb ; seeds rugose, dull-black . 2. C. murale. 



1. C. album, Linn. Sp. PL 219 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 58 ; F. B. L 

 v, 3 ; Duthie Field and Gard. Crops, N. W. Prov. and Oudh, part Hi, 

 21 ; Watt E. D. ; Comm. Prod. Ind. 293 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 416 ; Prain 

 Beng. PL 878 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 501. C. giganteurn, Don Prod. 

 74. C. viride, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 58. C. laciniatum, Linn. ; 

 Roxb. 1. c. 59. C. purpurascens, Buch.-Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6955. 

 Vern. Bathu, bathu-sdg, chel (Merwara). White Goose-foot. 



An erect herb, 1-10 ft. or more high, green or more or less coated with 

 white mealy pubescence, inodorous. Stems angled, often tinged with 

 red or purple. Leaves very variable in size and shape, entire toothed 

 or lobed ; petioles slender, often equalling or longer than the blade. 

 Flowers in clusters, forming compact or loosely panicled spikes, be- 

 coming thyrsoid under cultivation. Sepals T y T V m - l n g oblong- 

 lanceolate, keeled on the back, closely investing the thin membranous 

 utricle. Stigmas 2. Seed -^ in. in diam. orbicular, compressed and 

 with an acute margin, black and shining. 



