178 XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE. [ Atriplex. 
. A. leptocarpa, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. 
above the fruit more Miner: green and DART ed 
closed by 2 very short triangular entire valves not broader than the we 
and without appendages.  Hadicle ascending or superior. 
erp rar Curriwillighie, D 
N. S. Wales, e ra; piden] river, C. Moor 
S. Australia. ray river, near Morunda, F. ‘Mueller. 
by iim the lower clusters all females. Fruiting perian h with à 
the EET lobe minute oF almost übilluté. and alternating with the 
horns are 2 pira HAN broad darbad appendages, also about 
1 line long, givin fd 
ing 4- lobed limb, Pests with the "Mk closed. Radicle of the seed ascending 
or superior. 
N.S. Wales. Darling river, Victorian Expedition. Included by F. Mueller ia 
A. leptocarpa, but the difference in the fruiting perianth appears to be cons tant. 
27. A. halimoides, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. i. 980. A pT* 
cumbent or diffuse perennial or undershrub, ih the abit and inflo- 
rescence of A. holocarpa, but usually not so white and the leaves nat 
rower mostly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate and a cute, but sometimes 8 
tomentose and passing into the small rhomboidal form of that species 
iting perianth enlarged to 4 fe: f; lines diameter, Ioosely d fibrous " | 
spongy with an inner and an mbrane as in A. ho aM : 
broadly turbi or almost joi us with a much deprem 
flattened summit. bordered d by an annular horizontal wing or te Suh E 
the very small central orifice closed by small entire or 3. toothed er "n B 
valves as in the allied species. Fruit the same, except that t the radi g (m 
