(1) S. MONOiOA. (Forsk.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 156. 



%«. Salsola monoica, Poir. — Sehoberia monoica, Stend. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1792. 



Spec. Chae. Stem shrubby, diffuse, branchy : branches erect, 

 spreading, glabrous : leaves long, terete, alternate at the base, 

 stiff, glabrous ; flowers, male and female mixed : seed lenticular or 

 somewhat oblong, prominent at the point of the radicle, smooth, 

 shining, black. 



Sea-coast at Tuticorin. 



(2) S. Indioa. {Mog[.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 156.— Eoxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 62. 



8yn. Salsola Indica, Willd., 



JEngrav.^ Wight's Icon. t. 1796. 



Spec. Chae. Stem shrubby, very diffuse, branched : branches 

 ascending, glabrous : leaves half round, attenuated below, obtuse, 

 rigid, a little mealy : upper ones minute, oblong : flowers axillary, 

 sessile, 3 — 5-clustered ; seed obtuse-beaied, shining. 



Sea-coast, Tuticorin, and other shores of the Peninsula. 



(3) S. NTIDIPLOEA. {Moq.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 155. 



^n. Salsola nudiflora, Willd. spec. II. p. 2323. 



Spec. Chae. Stem shrubby, ascending, branched : branches 

 erect, spreading, puberulous: leaves rather short, oblong-ovate, 

 attenuated at the base, very obtuse, rigid, glabrous: flowers 

 axillary, sessile, 5 — 10, densely clustered, hermaphrodite, upper 

 clusters at length naked and spiked : seed beaked, shining. 



Shores at Salsette, Sunderbunds, and eastern coast of the 

 Peninsula. 



G-ENXTS VII. CHENOPODINA. 



Pentandria Digynia. Sex: Syst: 



Derw. From Chen, a goose, and Pons, a foot, in allusion to 

 some similarity in the leaves. 



Gen. Chae. Flowers hermaphrodite, bracteolate : calyx ur- 

 ceolate, 5-partite: sepals equal, fleshy, afterwards inflated, not 

 winged : anthers round-ovate : staminodes none : nectary annular, 

 fleshy, or none : ovary superior, slightly truncated at the apex: 



