198 XCVI. CHENOPODIACE/E. [ Threlkeldia. 
Yu s que at the top with an obtuse hollow protuberance on one side, 
quite smooth even when dry and rather thick and hard. Seed lobular 
and in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. i UO also Pl. Vict. Lith. iii. t. T ac- 
cording to F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 12 (I have not seen the plate 
Victoria or N. S. Wales. Murray river, F. Mueller, Dallachy. 
3. T. brevicuspis, F. Muell. A small glabrous padece with 
slender ascending "bestebig stems not above .in our specimens. 
Leaves narrow-linear, semiterete, acute, under + rer jog: Perianth 
very small and campanulate when in flower. Styles 2, connate to the 
middle. Fruiting perianth urceolate, about 14 lines long, hard when 
horizontal, n an a em cmt —Anisacantha brevi vicuspis uell, 
Fragm. iv uell. 1. : 
v frm] Barton ; Cape River A 
peni v e spines, this species appea S don ü agree better with Threl- 
with any other genus. The habit is at of T. diffusa or of Anisacantha 
eckitopéa, differing fine ib latter in the hollow base of the perianth, in the erect 
pea and in the very flat horizontal see 
Muell. Herb, Stems elongated, probably 
ER or ascending, much stouter than in the other species and at 
east 1 ft. long, more or less scabrous as well as the foliage with 
erities, E pus us. pede linear sa ag 
with the orifice oblique and open ee by the ries i bos 
th ga 
fruit below the top. Seed oblique or REOR vertical. Embryo folded 
or almost horseshoe-shaped with the radicle descending. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 55 and 5th coll. n. 438 
nie the reversed direction of the embryo dus Te appears to me t0 
much more closely related to Threlkeldia than to any other gen 
12. ANISACANTHA, R. Dr. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth ure hen in 
eolate or ovoid, hard w 
fruit, obliquely attached at the base, with 4 or 5 short membranous 
