63. Borsczowia Bunge

Borsczowia Bunge, Trudy Imp. St.-Petersb. Bot. Sada 5: 643 (1877).

Annual monoecious herb. Leaves semi-cylindrical at the lower part. Staminate flowers small, in small numbers among the pistillate ones; perianth lobes 5, weakly hooded; stamens 5; pistillate flowers in clusters in the leaf axils, the apical ones smaller, with fleshy, 3-5-lobed perianth, the lower ones much larger, slightly vertically winged. Pericarp adnate to the perianth; seeds vertical; heterocarpy common. One sp., B. aralo-caspica Bunge, C Asia.