Rhagodia. | XCVI. CHENOPODIACER. 155 
S. Australia. Kangaroo island, 2. Brown ; towards Spencer’s Gulf, Warburton. 
Scattered over the treeless plains N. W. of the Great Bight, De- 
i ld. 
: Ww. lia. 
lisser; Point Henry and Murchison river, lfie 
see “as 
There are several imperfect specimens from the desert interior, in Herb. F. Mueller 
and others which may belong to this species but cannot be determined with any cer- 
tainty. R. mondii, Moq. in DC, Prod, xiii from W. Australia, Drummond, 
they are really so. ave not seen Drummond's n 715, described by Moq. l.c. as Ji. 
parvifolia, but the character entirely agrees with that of the small broad-leaved forms 
of R. crassifolia. 
6. R. Preissii, Mog. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 49. A much branched 
slender divaricate undershrub, usually green or slightly hoary except 
the inflorescence which is whiter. Leaves mostly alternate, linear or 
ne "a i: 
owers and fruits of R. crassifolia, of which this may prove to be a 
variety with longer leaves and with the inflorescence usually more 
"ws ted and slender.—Z. linifolia, Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 637, not of 
pr. 
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, n. 716, Preiss, n. 125; eastern interior 
of W. Australia, Harper. 
mx 
from broadly ovate obovate or ovate-hastate 
sightly crie ap hoary or mealy-white on both sides when 
d lin. ong. Flowers as in the two pre ecies in distinct 
nav in à simple interrupted spike or slightly brane ed panicle, about 
e size of those of R, Billardieri. Fruiting perianth not exceeding the 
Perfectly ripe fruit. 
W. Australia. Sh a ; . The specimens described by Mo- 
um M said to be from gain dien Dm of Austrelie but were aed all 
very arks Bay, the Australian stations in the herbarium of the Paris Museum Deing 
uently erroneous. 
nd, R. spinescens, X. Br. Prod. 408. A divarieately branched 
er slender shrub, usually low and straggling or prostrate, sometimes 
E erect and aining se ft. -white or at 
“ngth nearly glabrous, the smaller branchlets often (but not always) 
g in slender spines. Leaves mostly alternate, obovate ov 
or concave, “Flowers small, polygamous, in small clusters or almost 
In short terminal interrupted spikes or panicles, or ost 
