408 Alfred J. Ewart. 
12. Kochia Massoni A. J. Ewart, l. c., p. 82, pl. Xb. (Chenopodiaceae.) 
A small annual slightly prostate, up to 15 cm in height, soft, and 
sparsely covered with a white or brownish wool, less developed on the 
leaves and absent from the fruits. Leaves linear, mostly Ui cm long, 
narrow without obtuse ends, alternate, closely set, the upper ones with 
sessile axillary flowers. Fruit sessile, dark greyish-brown, table-like, with 
ridged sides, 2 mm high, and 4 mm broad at the top, 2 mm at base. 
The fruit thus has a flat top and broadened rim, but no wing. The 
latter fact once distinguishes it from K. humillima, to which it is other- 
wise fairly closely allied in habit and general appearance. The plant is 
much smaller than the Kochia polypterygia of Diels, has smaller fruits 
with the discoid wing much less developed, and a flattened top to the 
fruit with the ridges barely showing. 
Cowcowing, West-Australia, M. Koch, 1904. 
13. Podolepis Kendalli F. v. M. var. nanus A. J. Ewart, |. c., p. 83. 
Height four to six inches. Flowers all terminal and smaller than 
the terminal ones of the type. 
Waterloo, West-Australia, Max Koch, 1906. Champion Bay, 
West-Australia, L. Gould, 1890. 
14. Podolepis Spenceri A. J. Ewart, 1. c., p. 83. (Compositae.) 
Annual, 20—40 cm height, one or more flowering stems from the 
same root, forming a loose panicle of heads, the final forks almost dicho- 
tomous. Stems glabrous, leaves hairy, and almost woolly on the under 
sides. Basal leaves lanceolate, spathulate about 5 cm long by 1 cm 
broad, the upper leaves all alternate, becoming narrower and smaller, 
and all sessile, with broad slightly-decurrent bases. 
Heads on stalks of usually 5 or more cm, 1 to !/, cm long, and 
nearly as broad as long. Basal and outer bracts small, sessile and ob- 
tuse, the inner larger, developing pronounced claws with glands on the 
outer surface, and becoming more pointed; all with shining transparent 
unwrinkled and unfringed laminas.. Outer rows of. florets, female, ligu- 
late, pale to brownish-yellow, with usually three blunt points, projecting 
beyond the bracts. Inner disc florets tubular and hermaphrodite, with 
five short, blunt, equal teeth. These in both florets are usually tipped 
with red. Pappus of about eight or ten fine bristles, minutely fringed 
but not plumose, present on all the florets. 
The plant appears to come between P. Lessoni, and P. rugata. lt 
is easily distinguished from the recently described P. Georgei of Diels, 
by the facts that the outer florets are ligulate, the leaves are never 
opposite, and the inner scales have curved glandular stalks. The smooth 
scales distinguish it from P. rugata, and its size and the colour of the 
florets from P. Lessoni. 
15. Pterostylis reflexa R. Br. var. intermedia A. J. Ewart, 1. c., p. 84- 
This plant has been referred at different times to various species 
and was finally classed by Baron. von Mueller as a variety of P. obtusa. 
Although closely related to P. obtusa it differs from that species in 
