4 
9:56 XCVII. AMARANTACEE. [ Gomphrena, 
2 lines c with long woolly airs outside at the base, the upper half 
on the rather larger m tooth ; no teeth or lobes to the tube between 
the filaments. Style s 
. N. Australia. E. cq N.W. coast, Martin. 
.. 8. G. Maitlandi, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 194. t. 23, An erect branch- 
br ‘annual of about 6 i in., more or less woolly, the pie ae pees 
glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or narrow-oblo ong, obtuse or acute, con 
tracted at the base and sometimes shortly petiolate, 4 W 14 in. long. 
Spikes depressed-globular, 4 to nearly 2 in. diameter, sessile or a 
peduneulate above the last leaves. Bracts and bracteoles rather bro 
very acute, nearly as long as the perianth.  Perianth-segments about 
in | densely clothed outside to above 
the middle with long woolly white or ferruginous hairs. Staminal tube 
shorter than the ovary, without teeth or lobes between the filaments— 
dem Cunninghamii, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 349. 
Australia. Dam mpier's A we N.W. coast, A. Cunningham; Pyramid 
hill Nichol Bay, F. Gregory's Expediti 
9. G. pusilla, Benth. A slender branching annual, under 6 in. 
high, with the loose wool, oe leaves and globular sessile 
spikes 4 to 5 lines in diameter G. Brownii. Bracteoles acute, long 
an the perianth, bracts ex m shorter. Perianth-segments ae 
above 11 lines long, woolly outside below the poris “the upper h 
scarious and white, the outer ones very obtuse, the inner ones narrower. 
Staminal tube ve ery short and truncate, the Baines slightly dil dilated, 
not toothed at the end, and without intervening teeth or lobes. 
N. Australia. Foul Point, N.W. coast, Voyage of the Beagle. 
Benth. A very slender branching «e of j to 
spikes. 
ves filiform, 
smaller and narrower. Staminal tube or cup very short; truncate, the 
filaments ori E scarcely dilated, Mie intervening tee 
roe sep hort. —Iresine tenella, "Mo C. Prod. xiit 
" yeh x fae fare Bay, A. Cunningham ; Ki Point, N.W. coast, Voyage 
ll. G. conic a, Spreng. Syst. i. 824. An erect branching annual of 
1 an se ft. bo the ep £ ite ataenda, slightly hoary woolly ps 1 
ar, d margins, 1 to 2 in. long. s 4 
at t first Peg; e^ er racha pied about 5 lines diameter and a 4 
