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Trichinium.] XCVII. AMARANTACEJE. 221 
branched sometimes from the base sometimes at the top only, clothed 
with a soft dense stellate tomentum, intermixed.occasionally with longer 
denticulate hairs but with fewer of the latter than in T. incanum. Leaves 
obovate or oblong, very obtuse or rarely m ( contracted 
the larger ones at ut mostly under l in. Spikes 
nearly globular or mb enn 4 to 1 in. — sessile o or shortly 
unculate, in termi corymbose panicles, which imes com- 
nate-acute, glabrous or nearly so, under 2 lines e Perianth 3 to 
plumose with long white hairs, the glabrous tips en ohne: Ms 
ticulate in the outer segments, "the inner ones shorter and m 
td inside. Stamens warme 3 or à —— Shanes: aed 
ting o long ar 
excentrical. e u no^ rod. xiii. i. 986; Ptilotus obovatus, F. 
Muell, Fragm. vi i, 228; T. incanum, Moq. l.c. 25 n not of R. Br.; T. 
sessilifolium, Lindi. in Mitch. Three ' Exped. ii. 18; Mog. lc. 284; .7. 
lanatum p Lindl in Ah Three p ii. 193; Moq. l.c. oct Lii 
oe IU va habile e, F. Mue IL n Limes” XXV omo 
tomentosa, Turcz, in Bull. Soc. jl ‘Nat Mosq. 1849, 37 (oortes a 
Goniotriche, lc. 1852, ii. 181). 
: Australia. N.W.e ast, B. Pi in the interior, M' Dow all Stuart's Expedition. 
eensland. rte vivat 
u les. an and Muay rit rivers, Mitchell; Mount Caley, Mount Flinders, 
» 4. Cunningham ; Mor and Darling rivers to the Barrier Range, Victorian and 
Vi vpeantions, 
ia. um river, F. Mueller. 
gu; Austral Australia. Flinders’ Range, F. Mueller, eti Expedition ; Spencer's 
wi Mount S Searle, boh urton ; Lake Gillies, Bur M 
chi = mond, n. 74, 23 a ie. out ‘the — Harper ; Mur- 
il river, Oldfield; Sharks Bay, 4. Cun onen 
or. grandiflorum. Perianth FA hake x eee ens m 
vj» dad and far attached to the ae rianth-segments- T dace via ubere ede 
am; Murra oed 
A Aver Gale is ag Sullivan both feri included by Moquin under 
iu 
Po i » R. Br. Prod. 415, not @ Mog. Stems erect or ascend- 
ET p divarientely b branched, hard and jb woody at the he base, 6 in. Aes 
1 ft. high, the whole Pent er and softly tomentose or woolly 
: with stellate and plumose hairs, Leaves from broadl elliptical to nar- 
» obtuse or mucronate, contracted into a short petiole, om 
" soft, t e larger ones on the main stem sometimes above 2 in., tho 
branches under 1 in. Tog Spikes ovoid or at length evi 
feming 1. € and scarcely J in . diameter, sessile or nearly so, 
an irregular leafy panicle, with some lateral spikes much lower 
