(1) O. KOENIGHI. (Moq.) 



Dee. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 109. 



Atriplex cristata, Roen. — A. Koenigii, Wall. — O. nummu- 

 laria, Moq. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1790. 



Spec. Chab. Stem shrubby, procumbent, striated, sparingly- 

 branched, unarmed : leaves alternate, petioled, small, divaricate, 

 obovate-orbicular, very obtuse, entire : scaly-white theca of the 

 bracts subsessile, obovate, the apex very obtuse, margin somewhat 

 sinuate, disc muricate, somewhat coriaceous. 



Sea-coast near Tuticorin, Guzerat. 



GENUS IV. SALICOENIA. 

 Jllonandrla Dtgynia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. From Sal, salt, and Cornu, a horn. 



G-EN. Chab. Mowers hermaphrodite without scales, articu- 

 lated : calyx toothed on the margin, surrounded towards the apex 

 with a very small angular wing : stamens 1 — 2 : filaments short, 

 thickish : anthers ovate : ovary ovate : styles 2, subulate, con- 

 nected below : utricle compressed,, enclosed in the winged calyx : 

 pericarp thin, membranaceous, and somewhat adhering to the 

 seed : seed vertical, ovate-oblong, with a membranaceous integu- 

 ment. — Herbs or undershrubs, indigenous to the shores of seas 

 and salt lakes, articulate, with or without leaves : flowers sessile, 

 very minute, temate, spicately approximated, lateral ones often 

 barren and small : spikes terminal and lateral, opposite, elongated, 

 straight : wing thickish, somewhat 3 — 5 angular : rhachis after 

 the falling of the fruit excavated with regular scrobicles. 



(1) S. BBACHIATA. (Eoxb.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 145.— Eoxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 84. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 738. 



Spec. Chab. Stem erect: branches numerous, decussate, 

 brachiate, opposite : joints cylindric, scarcely thickened at the 

 apex : spikes pedunculate, thick, cylindric : wing subpentagonous- 

 ovate, thickish : flowers very small, greenish. 



Coromandel, on the sea-shores. Sunderbunds. Mowering in 

 the cold season. 



(2) S. HEBBAOEA. {Linn.) 

 Ident. Linn. spec. p. 5. No. 1.— Dec. 1. c. p. 144. 



,Spec. Chab. Stem herbaceous, somewhat erect : branches 

 succulent, somewhat spreading: joints long, cylindric, thick- 



