228 XCVII. AMARANTACEEX. [ Trichinium, 
bracteoles broader, more obtuse and not brown. Perianth about $ in 
n e top.—Moq. in "DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 462; T. pu lehellum, A. Cunn. 
i T. setigerum, A. Cunn. ; Mog. l.c. 290; Ptilotus nobilis, F. Muell. 
E vi. 227 MR 
land, Mitchell; head of the Gilbert river, F. Mueller; Wide Bay, Bid- 
I ; Rockhampton, O Shanesy ; Midge Creek, Bowman ; Warwick, Beckler ; Darling 
owns, 
N.S. Wales. Bogan river, Mitchell. 
ecies is very near T. exaltatum, with which F. Mueller unites it, and from 
some specimens of which it is “difficult to distinguish it. The spikes pur to be 
always short, the bracts smaller and more scarious and the foliage different 
stems of 1 to 1 ft., C dn or n iraty with 1 or 2 branches, the whole 
n. lon and very acute 
e g lobular or ovoid, ove 2 in. diameter, conspicuous for the 
Eod tips of the Deristhd protruding from the long white hairs. 
Bracts and Mi er eer lanceolate, acutely acuminate, the outer 
from 4 to 1 the length of 
the oiek Paidi i to 1 in. long, the tube narrow, about 1 line 
je hairs ; the inner ones rather smaller and narrower, with long w hir 
hairs inside below the middle owns from the margins. F ilaments 
3 of them short without anthers. Ovary glabrous, contracted into 8 
long stipes ; aye very excentrical, "T glabrous. — Field and Gardn. 
Sert. Pl. t. 52; Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 289; Ptilotus Meis F. 
Muell. bid, vi 230; 7T. vae. "Field and Gardn. le. t. 53; Moq. 
le. 289; T. macrocephalum, Nees in Pl. Pr. i. 627, not of R 
N. Australia. Glenelg and Roebuck Bays, N.W. coast, Martin 58, 
ustralia. Swan iiver, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 435, 436, Preiss, n. 13 
Old» and many others; northward to Murchison river and southward to Kalgan river, 
The broad and narrow-leaved eo peras distinguished as T. Manglestt i and T. ias 
tabile, are so much intermixed and connected by intermediates that they ry h 
reckoned as vmi al cdm The aisder specimen figure red Bot. Mag. t. 5448 sI 
the spike much more elongated than I have seen it in any of the AEE? wild ones 
have before me. 
À perennial 
, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. «eu anri 
16. 'T. Beckerianum : 
with a short branching vibck and erect simple stems no do à 
in. in our specimens, glabrous as well as the foliage. A crow 
