56 Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Bd. 2. Nr. 8. 



Chenopodiaceæ from West Australia. 



By 

 Ove Paulsen. 



The Chenopodiaceæ collected by Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld in 

 Western Australia and handed over to me for identification are 

 of importance, because every contribution to the botany of those 

 little-known countries must be welcomed. But especially with 

 regard to this family our knowledge is scarce, and most of all 

 this applies to the group Salicornieæ, which has been very much 

 neglected. — Several doubtful or difficult questions have arisen; 

 in such cases I have figured the material ; and if the species con- 

 cerned are thus rendered recognisable for others with certainty, 

 an advance is made, even if my decisions be not correct in 

 every case. 



I. Rhagodia R. Br. 



1. R. Gaudichaudiana Moq., in D. C. Prodr. XIII 2 (1849) 53; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. V (1870) 154. 



Kalgoorlie (No. 335, 7. Oct. 1914). 



2. R. baccata (Labill.) Moq., in D. C. Prodr. XIII 2 (1849) 50; 

 Chenopodium baccatum Labill. Nov. Holl. pi. spec. I (1804) 71, tab. 

 96; Rhagodia Billardieri R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 408; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 V (1870) 152; F. v. Müll. Iconogr. Austr. Sals. 3 (1890) tab. 21. 



Leaves opposite. Fruits fleshy, red. 

 Carnarvon, in dunes (No. 344, 31. Oct. 1914). 



3. R. parvilolia Moq., in D. C. Prodr. XIII 2 (1849) 52; R. cras- 

 sifolia R. Br. var., Benth. Fl. Austr. V (1870) 155. 



An undershrub ; leaves small (5 — 8 mm long), obovate to ob- 

 long, mealy; inflorescence very open, spiciform. Flowering. 

 Kalgoorlie (No. 327, 8." Oct. 1914). 



