ya - em ee X FR RR, 
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— Kochia. | XCVI. CHENOPODIACER, 185 
The erect appendages have been described as the lobes of the perianth, they wi 
MuR Eu like the reflexed ones of K. lobiflora, to alternate with dns rea n 
which are flat, obtuse and closel y connivent as in fione species s of the gen 
inear tere 
often acute, rather thick, } to above in. long. Flowers solitary in 
th ruiting perianth with a broadly turbinate tube, above 
line long below the horizontal wings, with 3 or i 4 very ane 
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united in a single agate membranous ring expan nding to 4 or 5 lines 
or e i in. diameter and quite concealing the roras wings. Styles 
usually 3. 
N. S. Wales. een tiver, Victorian Expedition ; Mount Murchison, Giles. 
wW. Australia, Drummond. 
b Var. erioclada. B dins andol} tomentose ; leaves glabrous as in the typical form, 
iu more obt ne and terete.— Murray desert, Herb. F. Mueller; W. Australia, Drum- 
t K. ea a. F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 134, and in 
Hook. Kew Journ, viii. A densely branched Area "low "shrub, 
more or less hoary or ABD SOON with a close tomentum. Leave 
Opposite or altern ate, sessile, ovate or ierit: pee thick and 
aw keeled, Menit 1 to 14 lines long. Flowers solitary in the 
erianth much depressed, the tube vi^ "idR and broad 
without Lien p nal wings, the upper portion flat, with very short teeth 
closed over the fruit, bordered by three broad mem mbranous veined wings, 
wings narrower and less spreading, corresponding t 
er 
e inner Drg lobes, and sometimes a imot Kew: Styles 2, 
connate at the bas 
Australia, LE s opposite Lake Hamilton dra Coorong desert and 
ig Gulf, F. Mueller pani and Streaky Bay, B bbage. 
Dre ia. Kin F Gaurge’ s Sound. R. Br rown: 7 Tovar Cape prex AM ve 
F. 8 specimens, ath coll. n 251 Without flowers, referred here with dou 
ueller appear to me to be more like Didymanthus Roei, i in which the leaves are 
dy Opposite and rather longer than in Kochia opposi itifolia 
r. Prod. 409. A ee rather 
More constant 
