186 XCVI, CHENOPODIACES. | Kochia, 
branous veined wings, forming a complete circle of about 8 lines 
diameter but not united as in all the following species. Styles usually 
2, rather short, united at the base oq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 131; 
Salsola brachyphylla, Spreng. Syst. i. 094; Kochia thymifolia, Lindl. in 
Mitch. Trop. Austr. 56, Moq. l.c. 461. 
Queensland. Darling Downs, Law; Armadilla, Barton. 
_N. S. Wales. Camden valley, Liverpool Plains, A. Cunningham; Morra Creek, 
Macquarie river, Mitchell; Darling river, Mrs. Ford. 
Victori urray desert, F. 
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S. Australia. Spencer's Gulf, R. Brown; Port Adelaide, F. Mueller; Burta- 
Burra, Hinteracker. 
W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield; Drummond, 6th coll. n. 224. 
pyramidal, at least 2 lines long and as much in diameter at the base, 
surrounded by an entire annular membranous wing from 3 to 1 line 
broad. Pericarp and seed as in the rest of the genus. 
: chlan river, A. Cunningham; sand hills near the Deine 
occupying large tracts and giving a character to the country, Beckler (Victorian £t 
pedition); Murray desert, Herb. F. Mueller. 
F. Mueller thinks that this may be a state of K. villosa, with a monstrously develope : 
perianth, but besides some difference in habit and foliage (which approach those of — 
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found 
K. eriantha, F. Muell. Rep. Babb. Exped. 90. Apparently astott 
or lanceolate, obtuse or ‘acute, thick and soft, densely clothe bin 
silky fulvous hairs, mostly about i ng. Flowers solitary in 7 
axils but crowded along the branches, enveloped in long woolly hai 
Fruiting perianth of X. villosa, the horizontal wings connected ih 
ring spreading to about j in. diameter and woolly all over. St!" 
usually 2. 
S. Australia. Elizabeth Creek, Babbage's Expedition; between Stokes Rang 
and Cooper's Creek, Wheeler. ^h tbe 
This has the foliage of K. lanosa and K. loboptera, but. still more silky, vith 
perianth (except in the long woolly hairs) entirely of K. villosa, of which it me 
almost equally well be considered as a variety only. 
. 8. K. villosa, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 21. An 
shrub, erect spreading or decumbent, more or less silky-Yi leat 
mentose or woolly, or the foliage at length nearly glabrous. 
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