174 XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE. [Atriplez. — 
SERIES 4. GLOMERATÆ.—Monæcious decumbent procumbent or 
spreading herbs, scaly-tomentose or mealy-white ale flowers in 
globular clusters surrounded by a few females in the upper axils or 
rarely forming short terminal spikes. Females clustered in the lower 
axils without males. Fruiting perianths more or less compressed, con- 
spicuously 2-valved. 
14. A. velutinella, F. Muell. Rep. Babb. Exped. 90. Apparently 
herbaceous and procumbent, with elongated branching stems, the whole 
baceous, scaly-tomentose, free almost to the base. Seed broadly or- - 
l 
3 à , y 
 bicular; the radicle inferior or lateral. 
N. S. Wales. Darling Desert, Victorian Expedition. 
S. Australia. Stuart's Creek, Babbage’s Expedition. 
Benth. Mealy or almost scaly-tomentose ec 
but raised on a short solid base. Radicle superior. wl 
- = Australia. Subsaline plains near Cudnaka, F. Mueller; Murray rivet, 
be referred to any of those of allied species. I have only seen three small s 
ney Ms 
‘his plant has the foliage almost of A. nummularia, but the fruiting perianths cannot — | 
pecime? 
