224 XCVII. AMARANTACEÆ. [ Trichinium, 
tube about 3 line, the segments narrow, rigid, plumose on the back 
with small narrow glabrous € all glabrous inside. Staminal 
shortly free, with copious articulate hairs outside more or aoa continue 
on the filaments. Ovary hirsute on the top.—Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii 
ii. 997; Ptilotus distans, Poir. Dict. Suppl. iv. 690; T Mell, Fil 
vi. 998. 
N. Australia. Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown; Victoria river, Macadam and Sea 
Ranges, AT Mueller ; ri Goulburn Ind; A. Cunningham 
Queensland, A. Cunni Fiet $ Rockingham Pay, Dallachy ; aa river, Bowman. 
dus 
into à long petiole, the x er ones d small and more sessile. "Spike on 
long terminal pe eduncles coming X y soon cylindrica some- 
times Ó in. or more and from a lito more than 1 in. to above m in. 
diameter. Bracts and sich di broadly ovate or orbicular, obtuse or 
with a small point, wholly scarious and shining, with the central nerve 
scarcely sr con 14 to 3 lines long. Perianth pale yellow or straw 
colour, the tube exceedingly short, the segments 3 ius 
he 1 
eee in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 296; Ptilotus ra 
F. ve 227; T. giganteum, A. Cunn. ; Moq. Le. 296; T. 
pata, ‘Mo Le . 995 (very tall Md stout pénnet if Pr ess 
reiss. i. 629 o andicans, ' Nees in Pl. 
Peet i. 629; Moq. l.c. 296 (with aoe boidar. leaves and the stems 
Z. gm at the base) 
Water island, NADA Sound, A. Cunningham; Usborne s Han 
fie “Beagle V Voyage; Glenelg d di strict, Martin (with a very long drawn out spike) 
rmadilla, Ba rton ; Curriwilli ghie, Dalton. 
2. Wales. Taiki river, Mi itchell ; Lower Darling river, M: s. Ford; ae 
tween th the Darling and the Barrier Range, Viesotion Expedition ; ‘New Eng: 
Victoria. men river, F. Mueller, D 
Gairdner, Babba ; "s Creek, Hot Sli T: 
iste oi Pe rummond, n 
Murchison river, E Dreni MÀ i n. 221. Qe E 
T. conicum, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr ; Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 462, 
of d is the T. alopecuroideum in a n ps just coming into flowe ; 
nobile, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 22. A mte 
gat peren perennial, the stems simple or slightly-branched upwa wards, 1 t0 de I 
ft. high. Leaves from broadly obovate to oblong, rarely uin d 
lower anis chiefly radical on long petioles, bea or mucrona 
