200 XCVI. CHENOPODIACEZ. [ Anisacantha, 
Fruiting perianth sey. about 4 line long with 3 slender "prac 
spines, 0 of which 2 are from 9 to 3 lines long, the third much smaller 
. Australia, rimi dun F. Mueller). 
A. divaricata, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 122, described by Moquin from a specimen 
of Drummond's in De Candolle's herir received from w Gardens, but certainly 
R. Br. Prod. 410. A diffuse or divaricately 
branched shrub, "anm sid somewhat glaucous like A. muricata, ta, but 
ompact a 
1ili long, wi ry Berrini divaricate spines, rather "finer 
in muricata, the longest often 4 in. long, but sometimes none above 
smallest only 1 to 2 lines, the four hen present very 
slender and smal eredi the perianth usuall erect poc 
minutely ciliate.—A. erinacea, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. . tricuspis, 
F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 133, and in Hook. Kew Journ. 
viii. 
Gaiei Suttor river, F. Mueller, Bowman ; Bokhara Creek, Leichhardt; 
Darling Downs, Lau 
N. S. ales achlan river and Molle’s eRe ve Cunningham. 
l1 UIT. Murray river near the Golgol, F. Mue 
ad of Spencer’s Gulf, 2. Brown ; a river near Morunda, 
4. A. 55, 139, 
Hook. Kem Journ. viii. 904, A d sont. bui geet ed 
shrub or undershrub, the specimens seen not above 6 in. high and quite 
labrous. Leaves s linear, semiterete, acute, from 1 in. to above 3 M. 
ong. Flowers closely sessile and semi- -adnate as in the prece itp 
species but longer. Fruiting perianth 2 to 3 lines long, the tube ovoi 
very hard, with 3 diverging spines, of which 2 (either equal or unequal) 
varying from 1 to 1 in. long, the third small, sometimes reduced to 
a tubercle, sometimes 1 line long; perianth-lobes membranous, obtuse, 
us or inflexed, Styles 2, united to above the middle into a hard 
olumn. Pericarp usually hardenbd. Seed obliquely erect wi 
Mound radicle. 
S. Australia. " t plains, Cudnaka, F. Mueller d the — about 2 lines 
i. and the longest spines not above li in); between Stokes Range and rit 
Both are e bes (with the perianth fully 3 lines long em e longest species 4 to i in), 
Lk g e specimens (in Herb. F. Mueller) and may prove to be varieties 9 y 
5. A. glabra, F. Muell. Herb. A small undershrub, closely et 
sembling A. echinopsila, with the same foliage and inflorescence, but t 
bligue E rianth, although scarcely longer, has a much broader, less 
9 e; somewhat compressed at the top, with 2 opposite diverging 
