Trichinium. | XCVII. AMARANTACER. ur - 
] 
pile, about 1 in. diameter, on short axillary peduncles or flowering 
chlets, usually with a few small leaves close under the spike. Bracts 
i without anthers, but all dilated towards the base and united in a 
ot cup. Ovary glabrous; style quite lateral. 
N. Australia, Nichol Bay, N. W. coast, F. Gregory's Expedition. 
E T. striatum, Mog. in Herb. Hook. A glabrous undershrub, with 
Rther slender but rigidly divaricate striate branches. Leaves few and 
aan: sessile or nearly so, linear, 1 3 in. long or the upper ones 
al er. Spikes at first hemispherical but at length somewhat elongated, 
pedunculate forming a loose irregular leafy panicle. Bracts an 
o v ; . 
les obtuse, rather broad, closely enveloping the perianth, were 
i i 1a 
about 5 lines long, very deciduous leaving the bracts persistent, the 
M it free almost from the ase, narrow and rigid, plumose almost 
€ tips with long fine soft hairs, the outer ones often rather pe 
in 
es dilated downwards, Ovary glabrous; style excentrical. 
: nd, n. 430; Port Gregory, Oldfield i Hu Hartog's island, 
ttut). 
Drummond’ * . 
i 8 specim i in to T. divaricatum, to 
which they pecimens were afterwards referred by Moquin T E ae 
tate panicle "d Some resemblance, but from which they differ in a 
suronndin ee Bowers smaller, the perianth-segients free to the 
ents, stamens proceeding from the staminal cup and n 
base, and the woo! 
ot from the inner 
“ae auriculif lium, 4. Cunn. ; Mog. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 287. 
" nnia], probably with a tufted stock. Radical leaves rto or 
i 1 
ina, par 
as tube about i line; segments narrow, nearly : 
Sri rather long hairs, with short glabrous Hi rounded or 
Side, § In the outer ones, narrower in the inner ones, all labrous na 
2 al cup shortly free, surrounded by long woolly hairs reach- - 
