226 XCVII. AMARANTACEJE. [ Trichinium 
large: Perianth yellow, 2 to above 1 in. long, the tube very short, the 
ents narrow, rigi id, densely plumose outs ide, with short glabrous 
without any internal wool, although a few of the 
marginal hairs at the base of the inner ones ma “be turned inside round 
the stamens. Filaments very unequal, filiform, ibat dilated at the 
base, very shortly united above the perianth-tube, and surrounded by a 
few long hairs, the perse filaments usually without any anthers. Ovary 
, i a 
vi. 228; T. fusiforme, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 388, and A. Cunn. 
Herb., not of R. Br. 
Queensland. In the interior, Mitchell; Newcastle Range, — ahd Dawson 
rivers, F. Mueller; Bowen river, Bowman ; "Kenn edy district, Dai 
. Wales. Liverpool Plains, A. Cunni ngham, L eiohhardi (ith rather smaller 
flowers) ; New England, C. Stuart ; Darling river 
oria. ‘ Received ML Sir J . Banks, aar y es Port Phillip,” 2. Bn: 
aor Spon "m d Gunn; Glenelg river, Robertson, Allitt; Bacchus Marsh, Wimmera, 
F. Mueller; MEA Whan 
19. T. corymbosum, Gaudich. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 444, not of Spreng. 
A res perennial (or pares annual?) with rigid asc ending or 
erect simple or branched stems of 1 to 2 or even 3 ft. Leaves linear or 
linear-lanceolate, wp keni -acute, sessile or contracted into a petiole, 
the larger ones 1 to si long, but mostly small and distant. Spikes 
globular or ovoid or rare ly at length cylindrical, about 1 in. diameter, 
on rather long pe alnncles; forming a loose irregular panicle. Bracts and 
bracteoles broad, obtuse, thinly scarious, rather brown ‘but without th 
minent midribs, ‘not half as long s = erianth. Perianth about 
long t from the lyn all xen Re and pim 
inside, with broad scarious sg margins, the ntre vi one hir 
rounded by a few LO hairs s proceedin chiefly from their base. "T 
oq. in Dc. R j 
chaudii, Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2; Hemisteirus psilotrichoides, 3l. 
Linnwa, xxv.435; Ptilotus hemisteirus, F. Muell. Fragm. 1v. 90, vi. ? 
ci re Hammersley range, Nichol Bay, N.W. coast, F. Gregory's 
S. Australia, Lake Gillies, Burkitt, e 
W. Australia. Sharks Bay, M. Brown; Murchison river, Ojo) Swan riven, 
Fraser, Drummond, n. 432; Gordon and Blackwood rivers , Oldfield. 
Var. parviflora. Porisnth scarcely above 4 lines long. —Cudnaka, F 
When seed 2 elongates, the species bears lance v operit i 
but theleaves are much narrower, and the shortness of die eil hairs gives the 4 
spike an seth glabrous aspect. : i 
RIES 8. Ruopostacuya.—Spikes globular ovoid or rarely oyim 1 
Phi 1 to 2 in. diameter, EE simple or rarely branched stems F 
