188 XCVI. CHENOPODIACER. [ Kochia. 
taining 2 to 3 ft., white or fulvous all over with a rather close dense 
cottony wool. Leaves oblong-clavate, obtuse, soft thick. and often 
glabrous or tomentose, expanding to 3 or 4 lines diameter. Styles 
usually 3. " 
N. S. Wales. Lachlan river and Mount Goningberi, Victorian Erpedition; 
Darling river, Mrs. Ford ; Mount Murchison, Bonney. 
Victoria. Murray river, Dallachy. 
ustralia. Murray Scrub, F. Mueller. 
d . appressa, Benth. A much-branched shrub, more or les 
clothed with a short but soft cottony wool. Leaves very small, linear 
or oblong, erect and appressed, rarely exceeding 1 line, thick and k 
imbricate on the young shoots. Flowers solitary in the axils. Fru DE 
perianth like that of some varieties of X. villosa, usually glabrous, t 
annular wing expanding to about 4 or 5 lines iameter, very thin, Wi 
the veins very fine and not very conspicuous. 
Victoria? Lake Tyrrell, Murray desert, Herb. F. Mueller. 
S. Australia. Margaret Creek, Babbage’s Expedition. 3 
Like the two preceding species, this only differs from K. villosa in the foliage. 
12. K. aphylla, R. Br. Prod. 409. A rigid divaricately ke 
scrubby shrub with rather slender spinescent branches, the whole p E 
white with a short soft woolly tomentum or becoming at length nearly 
; sem ‘ther. 
variety only. It appears to me however at least as distinct as eithe 
y only. p 131 
Queensland. Armadilla, Barton. a 
N. S. Wales. Darling desert, Victorian and other Expeditions. 
Victoria. N.W. part of the colony, L. Morton ; Murray river, Hense ' Range, 
Australia. Spencer's Gulf, R. Brown ; Murray Scrub, Behr. ; Flinders 
Howitt's Expedition; Gawler Ranges, Sullivan. 
long soft hairs, scarcely 2 lines diameter including the annulate 
which is thick and hard, quite entire and bordered by a dense n 5 o | 
long soft hairs. Styles 2.—Sclerolena unifiora, Lindl. in Mitch. : 
Austr. 72, not of R. Br. | 
N.S. Wales. Darling desert, Dallachy ; Macquarrie river, Mitchell. , 
S. Australia. Emu springs and Margaret Creek, Babbage’s Expedition. 
