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 [Erlocaulon Carsoni. 



Rather dwarf, glabrous ; leaves all basal, tuftei, from a broad base 

 semilanceolate-linear , gradually much narrowed upwards; stems rather 

 robust, twice as long as the laeves or somewbat longer, angular, con- 

 stituting leafless peduncles; headlets of flowers comparatively small, globular; 

 bracts broadish, blunt, appressed, from brownish turning graduallj r pale or 

 yellowish; flowers hardly numerous, some imperfect; reeeptacle narrow- 

 conical ; sepals about as long as the corolla, those of the staminate flowers 

 three, pellucid, spatular- or linear-euneate, somewhat lacerated at the 

 upper end; tube of the staminate corolla conspicuously longer than the 

 lobes, obverse-conic, lobes slightly fringed, marked by a dark glandulär 

 spot ; stamens mostly six, their anthers roundish and almost black ; sepals 

 of the pistillate flowers broad, constantly without any carinular membrane, 

 but cymbiform-folded, opaque, whitish, often two ; petals ovate- or narrow- 

 lanceolar, apiculate, brownish upwards; style very short; stigmas generally 

 three, tender-capillarj r ; fruit turgid, often three-valved, slightly pointed ; 

 seeds pale-brotvnisb , broad-ellipsoid, sbining, almost smooth, somewhat 

 pellucid. 



Forming ample tnfts on a somewhat saline spring (called by the ab- 

 origines „Wee-Wata") at Kallara, towards the junetion of the Paroo and 

 Darling River; Duncan Carson. 



