204 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



androus and trigynous, greenish, imbricate-bracteolate, cernuous ; pe- 

 dicels shorter than the five-parted, glandless calyx; caryopsis sub- 

 globular-trigonous, shining black, hardly rugulose. 



Hab. On shifting sand-hills at the junction of the Murray and Mur- 

 rumbidgee, and rarely at the Mitta Mitta. 



XLII, Chenopodiace^. 



147. Blitum atriplicinum (Sect. OrtJiospornm), P. MuelL; stems nu- 

 merous, prostrate, simple, hardly streaked ; leaves grey -green on both 

 sides, alternate, petiolate, much spreading, hastate- or ovate-lanceolate, 

 the upper ones narrow-lanceolate, all acute, tapering into the base, gla- 

 brous with evanescent papillae ; flowers densely glomerate ; fruit-bearing 

 calyx wingless, not baccate, imperfectly closed; lobes near the base 

 gibbous ; seeds hardly keeled, with a densely papillose pericarp. 



Hab. In saline plains on the Elvers Murray and Darling, as also 

 towards Lake Torrens. 



148. Anisacantha Ze;2^ro/?5/£/e6f, P. Muell. ; diffuse; much branched, 

 all over villose-tomentose ; leaves nearly flat, linear, acute; calyx to- 



mentose, short, above the middle arlstate ; awns two, short, thin, nearly 

 equal. 



Hab. In the Murray and Darling Desert. 

 It resembles Kentrqpsis diacanUa. 



149. Anisacantha52CM5/3/5,F. MuelL; much branched ; leaves crowded, 

 trigono-semiterete, acute, glabrous ; calyx villose-pubescent, long, below 

 the middle aristate; stamens five; anthers exserted; awns two, strong, 

 somewhat unequal. 



Hab. In saline plains in the neighbourhood of Lake Torrens. 



150. Anisacantha tricuspis, F. MuelL ; branches glabrous, streaked ; 

 leaves crowded, semiterete, acute, glabrous ; calyx short, tomentose at 

 the summit, above the middle aristate; awns three, unequal. 



Hab. On the subsaline and sandy banks of the Murray Klver, sub- 

 ject to inundations. 



Next to A. erinacea. 



151. Anisacantha quinqnecuspis, F. MuelL; branchlets glabrous, 

 streaked, divaricate; leaves glaucous, nearly flat, lanceolate-linear, 

 acute, glabrous ; calyx short, villose-tomentose at the summit, above 

 the middle aristate ; styles three ; awns five, very unequal. 



Hab. In sandy, loamy plains near the junction of the Darling and 



Murrnv Rivers. 



