CHENOPODIACEAE 1 8 5 



II. Flowers unisexual, the $ bracteate, but without perianth. 

 Seeds erect. (Plate 45, A, 2, 3, 4.) 



1. Monoecious. Bracts of £ flowers small, not enlarging with 



the fruit. Leaves white, scurfy. 

 E. axyrioides (hondebosje), the only species is a low 

 half-shrub of salty ground. Endemic. Flor. Cap. 441. 



3. Exomis Fenzl 



2. Monoecious or dioecious. Bracts of $ flowers enlarging with 



the fruit and enclosing it. Plants mostly " mealy." 

 (Plate 45, A, B.) 

 About 120 species, 11 in S. A., mostly introduced. 

 (Incl. Obione ex Harvey, Gen.) Flor. Cap. 442. 



4. Atriplex Tourn. 



b. Stems not jointed. Leaves linear or subterete, sessile. 



I. Segments of fruiting perianth not dorsally winged. Flowers 



axillary. Styles 2. Leaves silky. 

 (Ch. diffusa, a widely spread seashore plant.) (Fig. 84 b.) 

 (Syn. Ec/iinopsi/on.) Flor. Cap. 447. 



5. Chenolea Thunb. 



II. Segments of fruiting perianth dorsally winged ; styles 2, filiform. 



Villous herbs or half-shrubs. 

 Several in S. A. Flor. Cap. 447. 



6. Kochia Roth 



c. Stems or branches jointed, succulent. The flowers in the axils of 



fleshy, scale-like leaves. (Plate 45, D; Fig. 84^.) 



3 S. A. species, herbaceous or half shrubby. Flor. Cap. 448. 



7. Salicornia {Tuurn.) L. 



B. Spirolobeae. 



Seeds without perisperm ; embryo spiral. (Plate 45, C, 8.) 



a. Bracts minute; fruiting perianth not dorsally winged. 



Two S. A. species; one (S.fruticosa), the Inkbash, a widely 



spread plant. 

 Flor. Cap. 450. 8. Suaeda Forsk. 



b. Bracts as large as, or larger than, the perianth. Fruiting perianth 



hardened, with a broad horizontal wing. 

 (Plates 45, C and 46 ; Fig. 84 a.) 



About 40 species, 5 in S. A. (Syn. Caroxylon.) 



Flor. Cap. 451. 9. Salsola L. 



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