shoots have short internodes and many small knotted lateral 
shoots with the leaves arranged in rosettes. The leaves stand 
close together and are ovate-lanceolate with a small spinose 
point. 
Anabasis salsa (C. A. M.) (Brachylepis). 
This species occurs on clayey or stony and saline soil. 
Its habit is shown in fig. 56. It is an undershrub-chamae- 
phyte, with slightly branched year-shoots which die off 
almost down to the surface of the ground. They are richly 
furnished with flowers which arise in the axils of the small 
opposite scale leaves. The flowers are out in July or August. 
The fruit is somewhat fleshy, it is surrounded by the non- 
winged perianth. 
The assimilating stem is constructed after the ordinary 
centric type of the Chenopodiaceae. The epidermal tissue 
consists of three layers, of which the inner layer is a thin- 
walled “crystal-layer”. The stomata are slightly sunk. A 
ring of palisade cells surrounds the starch-sheath and within 
this is an aqueous tissue 
with large crystal-cells and —— Fan 
the veins. 
Anabasis aphylla L. 
This species is a salt- 
plant like the previous one 
and relationship is also shown 
as regards shoot-structure. 
In its fruit A. aphylla is a 
true Anabasis, the leaves of 
the perianth being broadly 
winged and the fruit dry. 
Fig. 57. Arthrophylum subulifolium. A, 
leaf in transverse section; Ne, vein; 
Skl., sclerenchyma (black); W, aqueous 
Arth rophytu m subuli- tissue; Si, starch-sheath; Pal, palisade 
it Schr k cells; Dr, erystal-layer; Ep, epidermis. 
olıum SCcHhrenk. B, Part of transverse section of a 
sn young branch showing epidermis, hy- 
miandershrab: growing) OA RES SR ESRI 3 
poderm with crystal-cells, palisade cells 
on firm soils. It probably does and starch-sheath. 4, X 47; B, X 203. 
