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Fi lz;. 84 /'. Lagoon near Liideritzbucht at high tide. SaJicornia natalensh Bunge, 

 intermingled with Chcnolea diffusa Thunb. The grass is Agrop\rum distichum BeatlV. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



(See also Flor. Cap. Vol. v, Sect. 1, 433.) 



A. Cyclolobeae. 



Embryo annular or horseshoe-shaped, surrounding the copious perisperm. 

 (In Salicornia conduplicate, without perisperm.) (Plate 45, A, 4.) 



a. Stems not jointed, leafy. Leaves pedicellate, expanded, entire, 

 deeply lobed or dentate. 



I. Flowers bisexual, without supporting- bracts. 



1. Ovary depressed. Perianth-lobes not accrescent in fruit. 

 Seed horizontally lenticular. Leaves mostly farinose, 

 glandular. 



About 60 species, 10 of them in S. A., probably all 

 introduced (as weeds). Flor. Cap. 435. 



1. Chenop6dium Tourn. 



1. Ovary globose. Perianth-lobes accrescent in fruit. Seed erect. 

 One Introduced species. Flor. Cap. 440. 



2. Roubieva Moq. 



