GENUS II. ATEIPLEX. 

 Polygamla Sloncecla. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. The Latin name for the Orache. 



Gen. Ohae. Mowers mono-dioeeious, males ebracteate : calyx 

 3 — 5-sepaled, inappendiculate : stamens 3 — 5, inserted on the 

 receptacle : filaments filiform : anthers subrotund : female flowers 

 sometimes bibracteate : calyx none : styles 2, filiform : stigmas 

 the internal surface of the styles : fruit compressed, enclosed in 

 the bracts : pericarp very thin, membranaceous, distinct, some- 

 times slightly adhering to the seed : seed vertical, sublenticular. 

 — Herbs, sometimes shrubs : leaves alternate, rarely opposite, 

 often hastate or triangular, angled, sinuately toothed or quite 

 entire : flowers glomerulate, spiked, collected together. 



(1) A. HETEBANTHA. {B. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. V. t. 1787. 



Sped. Chae. Polygamo-dioecious : herbaceous, erect, glabrous : 

 leaves petioled, ovate, pointed, membranous : male spikes axUlary, 

 sometimes racemose, some fertile flowers mixed with the sterile 

 ones : calyx 4 — 5-sepals, or deeply 4^6-parted : stamens shorter 

 than the lobes : female spikes long, slender, interrupted, glomerules 

 4 — 5, females with one or two male flowers in the centre : bracts 

 of the females cohering near the base, ovate, blunt, enlarging 

 with the fruit, at length suborbicular, glabrous. 



Coimbatore, in salt clay soil, and among rubbish. 



GENUS III. OBIONE. 

 Polygamla Slonoecia. Sex: St/st: 



Gen. Chab. Flowers monoecious or dioecious: males ebrac- 

 teate : calyx 4 — 5-sepaled, inappendiculate : stamens 4 6, in- 

 serted on the receptacle : filaments filiform : anthers ovate : 

 females bibracteate: bracts more or less connected, at last in- 

 flated, hardened or corky: calyx none: styles 2, bristly fili- 

 form, combining below: fruit compressed, enclosed in the sub- 

 capsular muricated bracts : pericarp very thin, membranaceous : 

 seed vertical, ovate, beaked. — Herbs or undershrubs, scurfy or 

 mealy, pale or whitish: leaves alternate or opposite, ovate or 

 ovate-rhomboid, quite entire or sinuately toothed : fiowers col- 

 lected together, glomerulate: fructiferous bracts more or less 

 closed, often forming a 2-lipped theca at the top. 



