| 
x stem i 
1 ted, formi es. „Flow 
- Wully 3 tog ming more or less compact terminal spi 
3E The genus, which 
Anisacantha. | XCVI. CHENOPODIACER, 201 
very unequal spines, 14 to 2 lines long, and a third ag small one, the 
perianth thus approaching in form that of Sclerolena, but the seed is 
vertical or slightly oblique as in A. echinopsila.— Kentropsis glabra, F. 
uell. Fragm. i. 139. 
N. Australia. Upper Victoria river and Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller. 
ila, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 14. A much-branched 
~ 1 abrous and somewhat glaucous, or very rarely the 
young shoots slightly pubescent. Leaves narrow-line r, semiterete, 
mucronate-ac tuse, mostly about 1 in., rarely 4 in. long. Flowers 
very small, closely sessile, with an oblique base. St les 2, united to 
the middle into a column hardened at the base. Fruiting perianth hard, 
it ion into a 
f th 
‘slightly oblique, with a superior radicle.—Echinopsilon anisacanthoides, 
ict. ii. 76. 
- Muell, in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict 
y, Queensland, Desert of the Suttor, F. Mueller ; Crocodile Creek, Bowman ; Rock- 
pton, O’ Shanesy. 
N. S. Wales. Darling desert, Dallachy ; Ballandool river, Locker. 
porer 3. SALICORNIE X.— Branches articulate, fleshy. Leaves none. 
Owe a T 
fold "S more or less immersed. Testa various. Embryo curved or 
ed, with little or no albumen. 
13. SALICORN IA, Linn. 
(Halocnemum, DBieb.; Arthrocnemum, Mog.) 
bre omens hermaphrodite or polygamous. Perianth thin and mem- 
amens or 2. les ài 
Seed pat enclosed in the unchanged or slightly enlarged poe 
r nearly globular, often compressed, oblique or vertical. 
taceous or thin, Embryo folded or semicircular, either without 
ith a small quantity, either lateral or within the curv 
1 tie mbr¥o.—Succulent herbs with a hard base or shrubs. Branches 
a's leafless, each article usually concave at the upper end and often 
( ne à circular border or into 9 opposite protuberances or lobes 
8 0 
concavity, th y 
z Yi Mas ; s usua 
n the shrubby species; the flowering articles ge m 
with Hooker and others I take in the Linnean sense, including the 
