880 BENGAL PLANTS. [Spinacia. 
spikes ; females in axillary clusters; bracts 0; bracteoles 0. ¢ 
Perianth sepaloid, 4-5-partite ; segments oblong, obtuse. Stamens 
4 or 5, hypogynous; filaments capillary; anthers oblong, exserted, 
didymous. Disk 0. ¢? Perianth herbaceous, 2-4-toothed, in 
fruit coriaceous, eurian the utricle, unarmed or with 2-3 dorsal 
spines. Ovary subglobose ; ovule subsessile ; stigmas 4 or 5, long, 
Seed erect, turgid; testa thin; embryo annular, surrounding the 
floury albumen ; oat eagle 
721. SPINACIA OLE a Linn.; F. B. I. v. 6. 8. tetrandra 
In most of the provinces, cultivated. 
A succulent herb. Vernac. Palak, palang. Spinach. 
782. Atriplex Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually mealy ; leaves alternate, rarely oppo- 
site. Flowers small, moncecious or polygamo-dicecious, clustered, 
the sexes often mixed; in axillary, sessile fascicles, or in simple of 
panicled spikes; bracts 0; bracteoles in 3 flowers 0, in ¢? 2, flat, 
accrescent, aac in fruit, ce forming a 2-valved covering to the 
3 rianth 3-5-partite, — segments oblong oF 
obiveautit bbe Stamen poe rted at base of perianth; 
filaments free or connate Below: jute didymous. Ovary rudi- 
mentary or 0, rarely perfect. ¢ Perianth 0, rarely like that of ¢- 
Disk 0. Ovary ovoid or depressed-globose ; ovule oblique or ver 
pee stigmas 2, subulate or filiform, connate below. Fruit ® 
ranous utricle, rarely adnate to seed, enclosed in the enlarged 
petits oles. Seed erect or inverted, and suspended from a long 
nicle, or rarely (in hermaphrodite dis sg horizontal; 
embryo annular, surrounding the floury men 
1722. ATRIPLEX HORTENSIS Linn.; F. B. Ly iO} E. D. A. 1605. 
ost of the provinces, i aaseebed, 
A succulent, annual herb. Orache 
783. Arthrocnemum Mog. 
Fleshy, jointed, branching shrubs or herbs; leaves 0. Flowers 
minute, hermaphrodite, 2-3 together in the axils of scaly bracts, 
forming sessile, cone-like spikes; sunk in superposed and decus- 
sately opposite cavities of the internodes ; inicbeolss 2. Perianth — 
