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Cultivated in central and southern Europe where it occurs adventitiously : supposed to be indigenous in central 
Asia; but plants from central Asia we have seen named A. kortensis are nearer A. nitens. It is possible that 
the plant has originated in cultivation, as Beck {Icon, xxiv, 128 (1908)) suggests. 
Section II. *PANICULA TAE 
Paniculatae Bentham FI. Austral, v, 166 (1870). 
For characters, see page 169. Only British species: — *A. halimus. 
2. *ATRIPLEX HALIMUS. Great Shrubby Orach. Plate 172 
Halimus Clusius Hist, i, 53 (1601). 
Atriplex halimus L Sp. PI. 1052 (1753); Willk. et Lange Prodr. FI. Hisp. i, 267 (1861); Rouy FI. 
France xii, 36 (1910). 
leones : — Beck in Reichenbach Icon, xxiv, t. 270 (1908). 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 172. (a) Flowering shoot, (b) Barren portion of shoot, (c) Staminate flowers. 
Jersey (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 2903, 2903 bis; Bourgeau (PI. Canar.), 957; (PI. d’Esp.), 1455; Orphanides, 274; Porta 
et Rigo (It. Ital. secund.), 349; Schultz et Winter, ii, 139; Todaro, 415; Welwitsch (It. Lusit.), 225. 
Shrub, very mealy. Stem weak, scrambling, up to 2 m. high, much branched. Leaves alternate. 
Petioles short (1 — 2 mm.). Laminae ovate-rhomboidal, cuneate below, entire or rarely subdentate 
towards the base, usually obtuse, evergreen. Inflorescence with wide-spreading branches. Partial 
inflorescences many-flowered, mostly not quite contiguous. Flowers hemi-dioecious ; August to 
October. Fruiting bracts reniform to suborbicular, broader than long, entire or slightly denticulate, 
slightly apiculate, only slightly joined below. 
Planted to form fences near the sea, on dry loose sandy soil and on sea-cliffs in the Channel Isles and 
along the southern shores of England ; occasionally escaping, as in the Channel Isles, on to sandy waste places 
where it is now naturalised. 
France, Spain, and the Mediterranean region ; Asia, eastwards to Tibet ; northern, tropical, and southern 
Africa ; Chili. 
Section III. TEUTLIOPSIS 
Teutliopsis Du Mortier FI. Belg. 20 (1827) emend.; Westerlund Sv. Atripl. 39 (1861) as a subsection ; 
Ascherson FI. Brandenb. 576 (1864); Volkens in Engler und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii, pt. i a, 65 (1893); Beck in 
Reichenbach Icon, xxiv, 129 (1908). 
For characters, see page 169. 
Series of Teutliopsis 
Series i. Littorales (see below). Laminae linear to narrowly elliptical. Bracteoles strongly 
muricate at maturity and usually inflated. 
Series ii. Patulae (p. 173). Laminae linear to ovate, frequently with a prominent lobe on 
each side, attenuate at the base. Bracteoles at maturity cuneate at the base, smooth or a little 
muricate towards the base. 
Series iii. Hastatae (p. 175). Laminae of the lower leaves triangular, lobed, truncate or 
rarely subcuneate at the base. Bracteoles at maturity ovate to triangular, cuneate or truncate or 
subcordate at the base. Seeds either small (1 mm. in diameter), when the inflorescence is more 
compound than in the series Patulae , or large (2 mm. in diameter). 
Series i. Littorales 
Littorales Moss and Wilmott in Camb. Brit. FI. ii, 170 ; Exomideae Westerlund Sv. Atripl. 59 (1861); 
in Linnaea xl, 17 1 (1876). 
For characters, see above. Only British species : — A. littoralis. 
