ee ee 
Basella.} CHENOPODIACEA. 881 
sepaline, simple, ovoid or angled. Stamen 1; anther oblong. 
s 2, 
Ovary ovoid, narrowed to the tip; ovule subsessile; stigmas 
subulate. Fruit an ovoid, compressed utricle, with hardened 
testa membranous; albumen eshy; embryo dorsal, comma- 
r1or. 
RTHROCNEMUM INDICUM Moq.; F. B. I. vy. 12; E. D. 
1475. Set Ait wi indica F. I. i. 85. 
Sundribun 
A iia woody shrub, with ascending branches. 
Beng. Jadu palang. 
784. Salicornia Linn. 
Fleshy, jointed, branching shrubs or herbs; leaves 0. Flow 
minute, hermaphrodite, ternate in the axils of scaly bracts, pie 
ing sessile, cone-like spikes, sunk in superposed and decussately 
opposite ig of the internodes; bracteoles 2. Perianth 
Sepaline, simple, obpyramidal. Stamen 1; anther oblong. Ovary | 
ovoid, narrowed to the tip; ovule subsessile ; pcan 2, subulate. 
enclosed in ty spongy perianth. Seed sie compressed ; testa 
pid, with hooked hairs; albumen 0; embryo conduplicate ; 
icle ons parallel to the folds of the lai 
1724. Saticornia Bracuiara Roxb. ; F. I. i. 84; F. B.L v. 12; 
527. 
Sundribuns. 
A prostrate, woody shrub, with ascending branches. 
785, Basella Linn. 
Fleshy, twining, much-branched herbs ; leaves alternate, ceil 
entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, sessile, spicate ; bracts minute, 
caducous ; bracteoles 2, connate in a 2-lipped cup, and adnate to 
the perianth. Perianth sepaline, fleshy, 5-fid; lobes short, 
: te 
linear-clavate, papillose within. Fruit a es soi enclosed 
in the fleshy perianth ; pee thin, adnate to seed. Seed erect, 
Subglobose ; testa crustaceous; albumen scanty; embryo flattish, 
Spiral ; cotyledons large, ‘bin. convolute. 
