232 lx. c henopodiace.cE. [ Atriplex . 
A large genus, abounding in shores and waste places of temperate (more rarely in tropical) 
regions. 
Plants covered with white scales 1. A. cinerea. 
Glabrous or powdery, erect. Fruiting bracts rhomboid 2. A. patula. 
Glabrous, fleshy, and papillose. Fruiting bracts urceolate . . . . 3 .A. Billardieri. 
1. A. cinerea, Poiret ; — FI. N. Z. i. 214. A small shrub, 1-4 ft. high, 
everywhere covered with white glistening scales ; branches angled, leafy. Leaves 
1-2 in. long, narrow-oblong, obtuse, entire, narrowed into short petioles. 
Male fl. : clustered in dense globose or oblong spikes, which are panicled at 
the ends of the branches. Female fl. : axillary, clustered or solitary. Bracts 
of fruit -g— ! in. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, corky, with thin margins. — A. 
Halimus, Br. Prodr. not Linn. 
Northern Island: sandy shores of Palliser Bay, Colenso. Middle Island: Canter- 
bury, Haast (nearly glabrous; leaves sinuate, perhaps different, but specimen imperfect). 
An abuudant Australian and Tasmanian plant. Closely allied to the European A. Kali- 
mas, L. 
2. A. patula, Linn. ; — Fl. N. Z. i. 215. A glabrous or slightly powdery, 
usually tall and erect, branched, leafy herb, 2-4 ft. high ; stems terete. 
Leaves 1-3 in. long, shortly petioled, narrow ovate oblong or hastate, quite 
entire or lobed, rarely laciniate, subacute or obtuse, uppermost often linear. 
Flowers in spikes, which are axillary, and terminate the slender branches. 
Female bracts -Jg in. diam., rhomboid in fruit, toothed, their back smooth or 
tubercled. 
Northern Island: salt marshes on the east coast, plentiful, Colenso. Abundant in 
Australia, Tasmania, and many other parts of the old world. 
3. A. Billardieri, Hook. f. Fl. N. Z. i. 215. A prostrate, branched, 
glabrous, succulent, papillose herb; stems angled, 6-12 in. long; branches 
ascending. Leaves small, ^ in. long, oblong, obtuse, entire or sinuate, 
shortly petioled. Male fl. : fascicled, shortly pedicelled ; female : solitary or 2 
together, sessile ; bracts combined into an urceolate, 2-lipped, fleshy cup, 
enclosing an erect utricle. Utricle nearly orbicular, with 2 rather slender 
styles. Seed erect, compressed, its edges opposite the 2 bracts (not parallel, 
as is usual in the genus ). — Theleophylon Billardieri , Moq.-Tand. in A. DC. 
Prodr. 
Northern Island, A. Cunningham ; sandy places, Wangururu Bay, Colenso. A native 
of Tasmania. 
4. SALSOLA, Linn. 
Shrubs, or rigid, often spinescent herbs. Leaves small, subcylindric, fleshy, 
or rigid and pungent. — Flowers small, axillary, sessile, hermaphrodite, 2-brac- 
teate. Perianth 4- or 5-partite, segments dilating greatly, closing over the 
fruit, and becoming transversely ridged, or membranous and broadly winged. 
Stamens 5 ; filaments often united at the base. Ovary depressed ; styles 2. 
Seed horizontal ; albumen 0 ; embryo spiral. 
A large genus, especially in the saline districts, inland and maritime, of the temperate and 
subtropical regions of the globe. 
1. S. australis, Br. ? ; — Fl. N. Z. i. 216. A rigid, woody, low, sub- 
erect or prostrate, much-branched plant, 1-2 ft. high ; stems and branches 
