FLORA OF AO AN 307 
Capsule dry, ovoid, flattened, enclosed between the 2 erect (often 
enlarged thickened or hardened) bracteoles ; pericarp thin, membranous. 
Seed erect; embryo forming one circle round the enclosed albumen. 
Species about 120. 
Distribution / —Throughout the world, less numerous in the tropics. 
I. A triplex farinosa Forsk. FI. Aeg.- Arab. p. CX XIII ; Aschers. 
& Schweinf. in Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 289 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 
917 ; This. -Dyer FI. Trop. Afr. VI, 82, not of Dumort. ! nor of Moq. ! 
Arabic name : — Otssfai. 
Description : — An undershrub, 3 feet high, not mealy- (1). Leaves 
alternate; blade 14 by § inch, in the middle stem-leaves cordate or 
auricled (sometimes with acute auricles) , margin entire or sparingly tooth- 
ed, under surface with dense minute white tomentum ; petioles 0— inch. 
Two bracteoles in fruit orbicular, } inch in diameter, flattened, 
densely tomeutose, without tubercles. 
Locality : — Little Aden : on the seashore east of Jebel Ihsan. (Defl). 
Distribution: — -Coasts of the Bed Sea, Arabia, Nubia, British East 
Africa, N. Africa. 
Note : — Defiers reports another species of Atriplex as growing in 
Aden ; but does not give any description. 
3. Halopeplk Bunge, 
Annuals or shrubs, glabrous or nearly so ; branches not jointed. 
Leaves jq inch long, obovate or orbicular, amplexicaul and appearing 
perfoliate in the specimens of tropical Africa aud Arabia. 
Bracts in small spikes, with usually 3 flowers under each. Flowers 
very small, bisexual. Perianth obconic, with 3 teeth. Stamens 1 or 2. 
Ovary ovoid, superior ; style short, with 2 short linear branches : ovule 1 ( 
suspended on a basal funicle. 
Seed erect, orbicular, compressed ; embryo peripheric round the 
albumen. 
Species 3. 
Distribution .’—Mediterranean region, Arabia, Persia, N.-E. Africa, 
Nubia. 
1. Halopeplis peri’oliata (Forsk.) Bunge ex Aschers. efc Schweinf. 
FI. Aethiop. p. 289 te ex Ung. Sternb, in Cesafci, Passer et Gibelli Comp. FI. 
Ital, p. 329 ; Boiss. FI. Or. IV, 935 ; This. -Dyer FI. Trop. Afr. VI, 
84, 
Salicornia perfoliata Forsk. FI. Aeg.- Arab, p- 3, fc.l. 
