Sueda.} CHENOPODIACE. 877 
erect, inverse or horizontal ; pores crustaceous, coriaceous or 
membranous, sometimes adnate to albumen ; albumen fleshy or 
oury or 0; embryo curved, annular or spiral. 
Stem not twining; bracteoles free from the perianth ; anthers erect or 
incurved in bud :— 
Stems as not join 
Lea es fleshy, atone ; embryo spiral ; albumen seanty or none ; 
Bua minute, axillary, usually 2-sexual; stamens perigynous or 
almost hypo: ogynous Sueda 
Leaves membranous, flat ; es annular; albumen floury; 
0 
Flowers all similar, hermaphrodite : 
Perianth 5-partite, hardly ‘itera in fruit; Rowers = 
bracts or bracteoles 
Perianth 5-lobed, the base eaahaya and indurated. in miner 
flowers bracteate and 2-bracteol 
Flowers dissimilar, monccious or E aolyganduine male floret 
ebracteolate, 3-5-lobed or -partite :— 
Male flowers in terminal leafless spikes; sepals 4-5; females 
in axillary clusters, without bracteoles but with a 2-4- ed 
perianth, in fruit leathery and sometimes sil with dorsal 
spines ....... Spinacia 
Male and femaJe, or hermaphrodite and female are usually 
associated ; male sepals 3-5; female perianth 0; teoles 2, 
flat, mtn or not in fruit, dilated into a 2-valved ei for 
the utricle ..... 
Stems peat leaves 0; flowers hermaphrodite : 
lowers 2-6 together in the axils of the aa of sessile, cone-like 
spikes; perianth ovoid or pyramidal; mouth narrowed, 3-4- 
embryo horseshoe- oe albumen fleshy ......... Arthrocnemum. 
Flowers 3-nate, su n superposed cavities in successive sew 
Perianth Sb cail: mouth wide, Set or with 3-4 mi 
eth ; embryo te rate albumen none .....+-+.++0.0 
Stem twining to the right; bracteoles 2, re "eavigth to the face of the 
Perianth ; leaves flat, mhetibearistie’ anthers versatile; embryo ar 
778. Sueda Forsk. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually of saline tracts; leaves fleshy, ternate, 
terete, rarely flattish. Flowers minute, axillary, hermaphrodite, 
¥Y by abortion 1-sexual, bracteate and 2-bracteolate. ee ais 
short, globose or urceolate, 5-lobed or 5-partite; segmen ot equal 
