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compressed at the top, emarginate, 2-cleft : spikes short-peduncled, 

 thickish, cylindric, somewhat attenuated at the top : wing obovate, 

 thickish. 

 Sea-shores of the Peninsula. 



GBNTJS V. AETHEOCNEMrM. 



Monandria Digynla. Sex: St/st: 



Deriv. From Arthron, a joint, and Knemos, a limb, alluding 

 to the articulated stem. 



G-EN. Chae. Flowers hermaphrodite, without scales, hidden 

 in the joints of the branches : calyx ventricose, 3 — 4-cornered, 

 truncated at the apex, or 3 — 5-toothed, never appendiculate : 

 stamens 1 — 2 : anthers ovate : ovary ovate : styles 2, subulate : 

 utricle compressed, wrapped in the inflated fleshy calyx : pericarp 

 membranaceous, distinct : seed vertical, ovate, or lenticular, sub- 

 rostellate with a double integument. — Herbs, shrubs, or under- 

 shrubs, without leaves : flowers small, often ternate, lateral ones 

 often sterile or male. 



(1) A. Indicttm. (Jfo^.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 151.— Eoxb. fl. Ind. I. p, 85. 



Mngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 737. 



Spec. Chab. Stem suffruticose, glaucous green, procumbent, 

 jointed : branches herbaceous, alternate, twisted : joints very short, 

 clavate, very thick, spongy, truncated at the apex, subbifid: 

 spikes lateral, alternate, or opposite : flowers greenish. 



Coromandel. Bombay. Sunderbunds. Flowering in the cold 

 season. 



GENUS VI. SU^DA. 



Pentandrla Digynla. Sex: St/st: 



Gbn . Chae. Flowers hermaphrodite, bracteolate : calyx urceo- 

 late, 5-parted, divisions equal, fleshy, at last inflated, not winged : 

 anthers rotund-ovate: nectary annular, fleshy, or none: ovary 

 superior, cylindric-ovate, truncated at the apex: style none: 

 stigmas 3, rarely 4 or 5 : utricle compressed: seed vertical, 

 lenticular, with a double integument. — Herbs or undershruba 

 inhabiting sea-shores and salt deserts: leaves alternate, sessile, 

 fleshy : flowers axillary : sessile or very short, pedicelled, some- 

 times adnate to the base of the leaves, often glomerulate : brae- 

 teoles very minute, scales transparent whitish. 



