254 XCVII. AMARANTACEJE. [ Gomphrena, 
island, N.W. coast, Bynoe ; Nichol Bay, ien a A and Ridley’ Be Victoria — 
river and Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller; Goulburn is ands, A. Cun rt Darwin — 
and several other points along the coast Schultz yaar others ; remo kl in the in- 
terior, M' Douall Stuart's Expeditio 
. G. flaccida, R. Br. Prod. 416. An erect annual of 1 to 1j ft, 
simple or branched, usually more slender than G. canescens, but some- 
times as stout, the oung parts woolly, Mir S at length nearly — 
plicate and keele d. Perianth about 4 lines long, much fla Pens when 
old, the segments rather obtuse, slightly woolly outside near the base 
Staminal tube varying in length as in G. canescens, and always lo nger 
than the ovary, the filaments shortly free and flattened but without the 
intervening teeth of that species.—Moq. in DO. Prod. xiii, ii. 
Philoxerus s flaccid us, Poir. Dict. Suppl. iv. 399; G. firma, F. uel 
a ii. 193. 
Australia. Arnhem N. Bay, : Brown; Regents Ya and Cambridge Gulf, 
NAM. coast, A. eed ; Usborne harbour, Voyage of the Beag!e ; Victoria m5 
Am Mue ller ; Glenelg river, Mactan; Port Ess sington, Armstrong ; ; Port Darm 
Queensland. Cape York, eae 
Th ments are often broad and sometimes irregularly jagged or emery towards 
Mes end but different in different € ers of the same specimen, and 
me as described by Moquin in the genus generally, and in this and pre species 
pe 
d affinis, F. Muell. Herb. An erect rigid much-branched annual 
under 1 ft. high, hoary with — hairs. Leaves linear : linear 
lanceolate, with recurved mar 2' to 1} in. long. Spi 
within the last pair of leaves, [ong Rm or at length globular, p " 
diameter or rather more. Bracts and bracteoles very acute oT 
aristate, nearly as long as ina Aachen Perianth-segments kern " 
on a minute central tooth, without any teeth between the filaments. 
N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. 
4. G. humilis, R. Br. Prod. 416. A perennial, with a woody v 
often beari tufts of wool, the stems erect, branching, 6 to 9 in. hig 
glabrous as well as the foliage or with a few diy wore má € 
cially about the nodes. Leaves narrow-linear, mostly 1 des ne 
with stud m often clustered in the axils. ’ Spikes de de pressed 
hemispheric =i e lin. queri mostly pedunculate abov 
Pis cso or Es e leaves ea ben them, 
rhachis Braet sad bracteoles glabrous, ve d T 
parent, inl |-nerved, the Meines Msc about 3 fier ‘ig 
and rather obtuse, the bracts smaller narrower and more acute E 
