Babbagia.] XCVI. CHENOPODIACER. 198 
meu by the torsion of that base. Fruit much depressed. Seed 
very flat. 
N. S. Wales. Mount Murchison (Bonney?); near Stokes Range, Wheeler. 
S. Australia. Stuart's Creek and Elizabeth Creek, Babbage; Cooper's Creek, 
Hovitt's Expedition. 
9. DIDYMANTHUS, Endl. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth cylindrical, with 5 short broad 
thick lobes, closing over the fruit, and bearing on their backs distinct hori- 
ntal wines b Fruit 
more or less cottony. eaves small, mostly opposite, entire. Flowers 
two together, sessile in the axils, connate by their base and horizontally 
ricate, 
l. D. Roei, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 8, and Teonogr. t. 100. An erect 
branching shrub or undershrub, rarely above 1 ft. high, the branches 
a P 
mostly opposite or nearly so, sessile, lanceolate, acute, thick, 
us 
Styles united ye Rare kA a 
tyles united to the middle.—Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 12 
W. Australia, Roc Drum The fruiting perianths vary 
tan mond, n. 130, 148, 208, The fruiting pe 
oat size, although the two of each pair are always similar. At the time of flower- 
mg they are very short and almost free from each other. 
1j to 8 lines tamens in the flowers examined gees rarely 4. 
d : 
10. SCLEROLJENA, R. Br. 
(Kentropsis, Moq.; Dissocarpus, F. Muell.) 
Flowers herma hrodite. Perianth at first nearly globular, at len 
u mbryo almost annular, surrounding y E 
© ascending above the cotyledonar end into the rostelium o 
ij Undershrubs or shrubs, either prostrate decum nt or divari- 
MW branched, Leaves alternate, ilicis usually soft and wes i 
Ev. 
