CHENOPODIACEE, the goosefoot tribe of plants, many species of which occur in the S. and S.E. of Asia, of the genera chenopodium, beta, blitum, salicornia, spinacia, basella, salsola, and atriplex. Several species are used for culinary purposes. Garden ern!'(atriplex), chard-beet, beet, mangold wurzcl (beta) belong to this order, and soda is obtained from species of salsola and salicornia. Ch. album (beta sag), common in Bengal, is used by the natives as a pot herb ; Ch. laciuiatum, an erect annual, and Ch. viride, of which there are two varieties. Ch. olidum, stinking goosefoot, smells like putrid salt fish, and exhales ammoniacal gas. It is employed as an emena gogue and antispasmodic.—O'Sh. p. 523 ; Voigt.
Chenopodium album, Linn.
Kulf, ARAD. Ructanala, . . SANSK.
Khuljeh ke baji, Dean. Parupu kire, . . Tem.
Bhatwa, Bathu, HIND. Pappu kura, . . TEL.
Bathu, . . . PANJ. Chakra varti kura, „ Grows all over India, coming up with the spring crops in N. India and the Panjab hills. The poorer
people use it largely as a pot herb.
Chenopodium auricomum, Lindley, a tall per ennial herb of the Darling river to Arnbern's land, furnishing a nutritious and palatable spinage. It can live in arid desert regions.—V. Mueller.
Chenopodium blitum, V. Mueller, Blitum vir gatum, Linn. An annual herb found from S. of Europe to India, cultivated as a spinach plant ; fruits furnish a red dye.— V. Mueller.
Chenopodium rubrum, Chih-hien and Hien tsai of the Chinese. Much cultivated in Hu-peh, in China, as a vegetable.
Chenopodium viride, Roxb. ii. 58.
Rockeb el jammel, ARAS. I Betoya , BENG.
Beto sag, . . . . BENG. Chawut, . . . By.
Chenopodium vulgare, Bhatwa of Panjab. Goosefoot is found in the Sutlej valley between Rampur and Sungnam, at an elevation of 7000 feet. Entirely a rain-crop ; grows to six feet high ; seeds considered nourishing.—Cleghorn, Report.