192 XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE. [ Chenolea. 
short obtuse lobes, and 4 or 5 dorsal awns, which in the fruiting perianth | 
become divaricate spines, unequal in len "th, the longest but Tittle more 
than 1 line. Stamens 5. Styles 2, united (o near the middle. Seed 
hat ooueals or oblique, with an ascending radicle. 
N. Australia. Sturt's Creek, F, Mueller. 
6. C. sclerolemnoides, F. Mu ell. A small undershrub, much 
soft rather loose woolly tomentum. Leaves sessile, linear, obtuse, s0 
2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. Flowers solitar he axils, densely 
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lobes closing over the fruit, 5 dorsal erect membranous bifid appendages, _ 
and lower down 5 linear sometimes pungent and spine-like a 
radiating roti near the base, all usually concealed pa the wool or 
the points of the spines slightly protruding. Styles 2, united at the 
base. Seed horizontal; embryo flat, annular, the radicle either not at 
all or only ver or rising above the cotyledona ar end.—Zrio 
schero x . Second Re ep. 15; Echinopsilon sclerolænoides, F. 
Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Viet. ii. 75. 
N.S. Wales. Murray and Da arling rivers, esas n» Goodwin, 
Victoria. Murray ibn » the mouth of the Golgol, F. Mueller. 
S. Australia. Cudnaka, Lake Torrens ueller. 
W. Australia, Drummond (Herb. F. Mueller). | 
The olena en. Lindl. (not of i): referred here throngh some mistake by — 
F. Mueller, Fragm. vii. 13, is the Kochia cilia 
8. BABBAGIA, F. Muell. 
Flowers E Perianth urceolate, hard when in fruit, with : 
4 (or 5 ?) sma Il membranous lobes, an dts or 3 dorsal membrano ys stipi- 
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sta m ular, enc 
a mealy albumen, the radicle slightly cei p the cot kie 
end.— Diffuse glabrous undershrub or shrub nhi linear, altern? 
Flowers solitary in the axils, sessile, without bie 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in dije 
B. dipterocarpa, F. Muell. Rep. Babb. Exped.91. A small m 
estu diffuse undershrub or spreading shrub, glabrous "eer — 
E to shies 3 lines diameter, ea ach w wing contrac ted into E: l 
