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. Allied to A, muricata, 



152. Kochia sedifolia, E. Muell. ; velvety from a pale grey toment ; 

 stem fruticose, erect, with numerous spreading brancTilets ; leaves short, 

 crowded, alternate, clavate-semiterete, blunt ; flowers generally solitary ; 

 wings of the calyx nearly glabrous, hardly longer than its velutinous 

 disc, veined, flabellate, nearly all connate, at last red. 



Hab. On the limestone banks of the Murray and Darling Eivers, 

 and in dry, subsaline places towards Spencer's Gulf and Lake Torrens. 

 . It differs from K. hrevifolia not only in much more spreading growth, 

 hut also essentially in its velvet indument and in the partially separated 

 wings. 



153. KoQhia oppositifolia, F. Muell. ; covered with a grey, somewhat 

 silky toment; stem dwarf, spreading, much branched; leaves short, 

 opposite, generally crowded, triquetrous, acute, with nearly carinate 

 backs ; flowers mostly solitary ; wings of the calyx glabrous, hardly 

 longer than the thinly tomentose disc, veined, red, orbicular- or flabel- 



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late-reniform, disjointed. 



Hab. In various saline places at Spencer's Gulf. 



The opposite leaves distinguish it at once from the numerous other 



species. 



XLIII. Santalace^. 



154, Choretrum cJirysantJmm, F. Muell. ; branches terete; twigs an- 

 gular, not pungent; leaves almost persistent, lanceolate-subulate, at 

 length somewhat deltoid ; glomeriiles yellow, two- to five-flowered, on 

 the top of lateral very short twigs ; bracteoles three, subovate or round- 

 ish, ciliolate. 



Hab. On low, scrubby ridges along the Avoca and Murray Rivers. 

 Not dissimilar to CJwretrum glomeratim, from which, as well as IVom 

 the few other already known species, it is easily distinguished by its 



golden flowers. 



XLIV. Pkoteace^. 



155. Grevillca Victori^B (Sect. Calothynus), Y. MueU. ; tall; leaves 

 subcorlaceous, undivided, long-lanceolate, rarely ovate, acute, short- 

 mucrouate, gradually tapering into the petiole, pennmerved, vcmcd, 

 with slightly recurved margiu, above smooth, beneath with branchlets 

 and rachis grey-silky; racemes pedunculate, axillary and terminal, elon- 

 gate, sometimes divided, drooping, their development centripetal ; ca- 



