ChenopodiiDti] cii. cHENOPODiAcE.r,. 899 



HuiLLA.— In places neglected after cultivation, about LopoUo, 

 plentiful, in company with MuuHonia hifioni DC. (VVelw. liurlj. no. ItlOO ; 

 iint>', p. lOH) ; H. and fr. Jan. and Feb". 18(J0. No. 6317. 



2. BETA Tournef., L. ; Benth. i nook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 52. 

 ]. B. vulgaris L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 222 (17rj.3). 



B. laaritimd L. Sp. PI., edit. 2, p. 322 (17(52). //. prociimbens 

 Sm. iu llornem. Hort. Hafn. Suppl. p. 31 (1819) ; J. A. Schmidt, 

 Beitr. Fl. Cap Verd. p. 171 (1852). 



Cai'E UK Vkrdk Islands.— In sandy places in the ii-hind of St. 

 Vincent ; fr. Jan. 18G1. No. 6325. 



3. ATRIPLEX Tournef., L. ; Benth. it Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 53. 

 1. A. paludosa It. Br. Prodr. p. 40G (1810). 



MossAMKDics. — A much branched undershrub or almost a shrub, 

 5 to 8 ft. high ; branches patent, elongated, subscandent ; leaves some- 

 what fleshy, whitish-lepidoto. In bushy brackish places about Caroca, 

 about 13 miles distant from the ocean, plentiful, somewhat climbing 

 among Tdimirix ortcntalis Forsk. (Welw. herb. no. lU8(j : <nit<-, p. 55) 

 and <l//inHosporia (cf. (r. sinrr/dl/^us/a Loesen. ; Welw. herb. nos. 12(37 

 and l;';(;2 ; aiifr, p. 145) ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 6327- 



Our plant is diojcious, and agrees fairly well with the type specimens 

 of Brown's species in the National Herbarium. 



4. ARTHROCNEMUM Moq. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 65. 

 1. A. macrostachyum Moris & Delporte in Ann. Sc. Nat. 8er. 



4, ii. p. 377 (1854). 



Salicornia ylauca Delile, Fl. Egypt Illustr. p. 49 (1812). 



5. macrostachya Moric. Fl. Vinet. p. 2 (182U); Guss. Fl. Sic. p. 

 13. t. 4 (1829). A. fruticosum, y. macrostachijum, & glaucuin, 

 Moq. Chenopod. Mon. Enum. p. 112 (1840). A. glaucum Ung.- 

 Sternb. in Atti Congr. Bot. Firenze, p. 283 (1876). 



Ami!i:iz.— At the river Ouyo (? Ki Nov. 185.'.), without fl, or fr. 

 Doubtfully referred to this species. No. 6330. 



LoA.NDA, KTC. — A decumbent undershrub, remarkably gregarious, 

 partly constituting broad round tracts of the shore 6 to I'O fathoms in 

 diameter, intermixed with UaVtmum (cf. Welw. herb. an. 2382-2390): 

 stems prostrate, woody, scarcely jointed but nodulose ; branches and 

 branchlets opposite, erect; joints cylindrical, mostly \ in. long, glaucous, 

 blood-red at the base and apex, blunt, emarginate ; spikes central on 

 the branchlets, an inch long, torulose, scarcely thicker than ^^ in., 

 with joints -^V in. long, in old age dryly spongy ; seeds ellipsoidal, 

 irregularly trigonous, scarcely J4 in. long, shortly beaked, chestnut- 

 brown, smooth. The seeds agree with this genus in respect of the 

 embryo. In sandy maritime places at the mouth of the river Sanc^-a 

 (Mossul), and at Praia da Zamba grande to the south-west of Loanda, 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. end of Nov. 1853. No. 6331. 



This is probably the plant referred to as J./u(y/cu7Mby Welwitsch in 

 Ann. Cons. Ultramar. Li.sb. No. 24 (May 1856), p. 253. n.24 : he states 

 that it abounds in soda. 



MiissAMi.DKS.— A perennial, fleshy, green-purplish, densely coespitose 

 herb, the clumps hemispherical and 2 to 3 ft. in diameter. In gravelly 

 places near Boca de Giraul, very plentiful, in company with Cnssa 

 crdica L. (anfe, p. 724) ; fl. July 'l859. No. 6328. 



