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404 CHENOPODIACEAE. | Rhagodia. 
common weeds of ocultfightion, and several of these have become naturalized in New 
Zealand. Of the 6 indigenous genera, 5 are widely spread in temperate and tropical 
climates, the remaining one (Rhayodia) is confined to Australia and New Zealand. 
A. Stems leafy, not jointed. Stamens 3-4. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Perianth hardly enlarged in 
fruit. Fruit a berry. Embryo annular 
5h > .. 1. Rwagoptia. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Perianth hardly enlarged in fruit. 
Fruit a dry _utricle. Embryo annular a a .. 2, CHENOPODIUM. 
Flowers unisexual; females enclosed within 2 bracts which are 
niuch enlarged in fruit. Embryo annular 5 * .. & ATRIPLEX. 
Leaves fleshy, semiterete. Perianth simply enlarged and fleshy in 
fruit. Embryo spiral #: ot ‘- i .. 5. SUAEDA, 
Leaves fleshy, pungent-pointed. Perianth enlarged and winged in 
fruit. Jmbryo spiral 2 6. SALSOLA. 
B. Stems jointed apparently, leafless. Stamens 1 or 2. 
Flowers sunk in cavities between the joints ae fo .. 4, SALICORNIA. 
1. RHAGODIA R. Br. [& I 
Shrubs or more rarely herbs. Leaves alternate or subopposite, sessile 
or petiolate. Flowers small, hermaphrodite or monoecious, rarely 
dioecious, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, in axillary clusters or in 
terminal spikes or panicles; bracts wanting. Perianth 5-lobed or -partite ; 
segments obtuse, concave, hardly enlarged in-fruit. Stamens 5 or fewer, 
inserted at the base of the perianth ; filaments subulate, flattened. Ovary 
subglobose ; styles 2 or very rarely 3, linear or subulate. Fruit a small 
globose or depressed-globose berry, free from the perianth. Seed horizontal, 
flattened ; testa crustaceous; embryo annular, surrounding the copious 
mealy albumen. : 
A small genus of 11 species, all Australian, but one of them found in New 
Zealand as well. 
Ro Avrcanduter (Serra. Cothow (42%. Sa dal 
1. R. nutans R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 408.—A much-branched prostrate 
or procumbent herb, green or the young leaves and branches more. or less- 
clothed with white mealy tomentum; stems 9-24 in. long, usually hard 
and woody at the base. Leaves opposite and alternate, petiolate, +-1 in. 
long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate or hastate, acute, cuneate or truncate 
or cordate at the base, entire, rather thin. Flowers minute, polygamous 
or dioecious, arranged in short loose-flowered spikes or panicles in the 
upper axils or terminating the branches. Perlanth-segments ovate, obtuse, 
mealy-tomentose. Male flowers usually with 3 stamens ; female flowers 
with 1 or 2 abortive stamens. Ovary depressed-globose; styles 2. Fruit 
globose, fleshy, bright-red, § in. diam.— Benth. Fl. Austral. v (1875) 156; 
Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 408; Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 578. 
Kermapec Istanps, Nortu Istanp: Rocky places near the sea, not uncommon. 
Soutu Istanp: Sea-cliffs near Cape Foulwind, W. Townson / Queen Charlotte Sound, 
J. H. Macmahon! Kaikoura Peninsula, Spencer! Banks Peninsula, R. M. Laing, 
A. Wall: near the mouth of the Ashburton River, H. H. Allan! Probably 
abundant on rocky coasts. Inland on island in the Waiau River, near Marble Point, 
C. EH. Christensen. 
f Closely resembles Chenopodium triandrum in habit and foliage, and is easily 
mistaken for it in the absence of fruit. Plentiful along the coast of eastern Australia, 
from Queensland southwards. 
