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Flores semper initio et ssepe postea capitati v. denique ad longi- 

 tudinem 2" spicati. Fructus succo orbati, patentim villosi, inter- 



dum conspicue pedicellati. 



Pimelea hmmatostachya ]Km. in collectione Leicliliardtii provenit ; 

 planities basalticas amat ; e, g. ad Isaacs, Bowen, Suttor, Neercool 

 River, Mount Broadback, Eockharapton, Port Denison, Peak 

 Downs, Rockingham's Bay. Fructus exsucci, confertissimi, vil- 



loso-pubescentes. 



Pimelea drupacea (P. Gunnii, J. Hook. FL Tasm. i. 332) alti- 

 tudine 1-6' variat. Extra Tasmaniam, ubi alpes altiores adscendit, 

 reperta ad Sealer's Cove et in inaula Kingii, Folia passim late 



floralia interdum capitulum haud superantia. Capitula 



Flores complete bisexuales, 

 P. Gunhii forsan varietatem 



ovalia ; 



non raro ab initio diuque axillaria. 



Drupa succulenta, e rubro nigrecens. 

 densivestitam constituit ; calyx enim tarde secedit. 



Pimelea microcephala ab ora Australiae occidentalig (Hutfs 

 River) vergit ad fluvios Avoca, Darling's, Murray^s et BallandooFs 

 River, .'capricomu vix transgrediens ; conf. Proceed. Linn. Soc. ii, 

 151. E. proxiraitate portus Jacksonii plantam hancce eremicolam 

 non habeo. Flores masculini tubo gracili, foeminei tubo brevi 

 turgente, more plurium specierum, Radix ut ceterae partes acer- 

 rima, 



. Pimelea paucijlora fruticem decempedalem v. humiliorem for- 

 mat. Speciem cognoscimus a fluvio Avon terras Gippsland, 

 MacLeay's River, Beckler ; Bellinger's Eiver, C. Moore ; Nova 

 Anglia, C- St. ; a vertice motitis Lindsay, W. Hill. Folia floralia 

 haud raro 4 et caulinis latiora et breviora. Flores dioici, in 

 capitulo usque 15. Stamina fertilia conspicue emergentia. Basis 

 calycum nonnunquam pilosula. ^Pedicelli persistentes, modo bre- 

 vissimi, modo lineam longi. 



r 



Salsolace-e. 



Atriplex elachophyllum. 



(Sect. Obione.) 



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minutis lanceolato- v. spatulato-obovatis integerrimis v.^repandu- 

 iis, glomerulis masculis minute paucifloris solitariis, fructibus 

 parvis sparsis rhombeo-globosis antice denticulatis vertice tantum 



valvatis. 



In eremo ad rivum Sturfs Creek Australite subcentralis. 

 F. M. 



Planta macra, fulvido-cana. Folia U-3'" rarius -9'" 



longi, 



i^uli masculi lineam vix excedentci,. 

 sicci, lateribus interdum edentuli. 



longa. 



Testa nltens, fusca, leevis. 



Fructus sesquilineam 



Semen i'" metiens. 



