Enchylena.] XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE. 181 
Freiting perianth coriaceous, depressed.globular, about 2 lines 
diameter, the lobes more or less gibbous outside . . . . 
Fruiting perianth broadly turbinate, very flat, with a nerve-like 
edge, nearly 2 lines diameter, the tube 10-ribbed . . . . 
l. E. microphylla, Moq. i» DC. Prod. xiii. ii, 198. A diffuse divari- 
4. E. villosa. 
5. E. marginata. - 
E. tomentosa, 
ut smaller, thinner (not succulent?) and slightly angular. Styles 
usua. l —Suada tamariscina, Lindl. in Mitch. "Trop. Austr. 939; 
Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 461. 
Queensland. Near Mount Kilsyth, Mitchell; Darling Downs, Law. 
N. S. Wales. Foot of Mount Flinders, 4 Cunningham. 
2. E. ? micrantha, Benth. A shrub, the branches in our specimens 
long, with numerous branchlets densely clothed as well as 
the foliage with soft fulvous silkv or sometimes woolly hairs. Leaves 
1 crowded, linear, soft, 2 to 4 lines long. Flowers very small, s0- 
itary in the axils, Perianth, already much enlarged after flowering 
with the fruit nearly ripe, globular, glabrous or hairy es ecially the 
lobes, smooth and rather thick, scarcely 2 lines diameter ; lo s 5, short, 
obtuse, eonnivent over the fruit. Stamens 5, shortly exserted, with 
flattened filaments, Styles 8, connate at the base. Fruit depressed- 
s hairy. Seed not seen quite ripe, but the embryo 
already large appears to bé horizontal, annular, with the radicle promi- 
nent and somewhat ascending. : 
ue Australia, Drummond, Ath coll. n. 253, referred by,F. Mueller, Fragm. vii. 12, 
with doubt to Kochia villosa, but I can see no trace of any wing or transverse promi- 
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"ug under 6 in. long, sometimes much branched and attaining En 
eet, the branches hoary or silvery with a close or woolly tomentum, 
rarely glabrous or nearly so. Leaves linear-terete, e 
usually 3 but sometimes 9.—Moq. in DC: Prod. xiii. ii. 198; Nees in 
PL Preiss. i. 635; E. paradoxa, R. Br. Prod. 408; Mog. Le. ; E. pubes- 
doxa, 
» Moq. l.c. (monstrous states, see below). 
N. Australia. Sturt’s Creck, F. Mueller. 
