259 XCVII. AMARANTACEJE. [ Alternanthera, 
white tips, all glabrous inside, the inner ones rather smaller. Filaments 
i , uni d in a short cup, all antheriferous, and alternating with 
short broad scale-like truncate or jagged teeth or lobes. Style peer 
than the ovary, with a capitate stigma. Utricle compressed but not 
notched. 
_ WN. Australia. Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller; a single small specimen in Herb. 
F. Mueller, 
? A. longipes, Benth. An annual with slender erect slightly 
branched glabrous stems of about 1 ft. Leaves sessile, linear, acute, 
contracted at the base, slightly hairy, 14 to 2 in. long, the rounger 
es g 
mare} 
staminodia, rather longer than them and entire or jagged.—Telanthera 
longipes, Moq. in. DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 370. 
_N. Australia. N.W. Coast, Bynoe—I have not seen the specimens, nor does it 
za in what herbarium Moquin examined them. I have taken the above from his 
character and description. i 
9. GOMPHRENA, Linn. 
(Philoxerus, R. Br.) 
vening teeth or scale-like lobes; anthers 1-celled. Ovary anya 
style short or filiform, with 2 short, often minute, linear stigmatic /0 
u 
greene or with more or less of soft woolly hairs. Leaves Ret 
owers in terminal or rarely axillary spikes usually dense, “a 
r more or less 
len 
glabrous, the bracteoles more or less complicate and keeled. Ovary — 
glabrous, | ; 
"has 
value here than in th case of T'ricninium, and I have followed Brown indir e. 
oniphrena from Alternanthera chief by the 2-lobed Dg am Moree a hold if 
ness of the staminal tube, by which Brow separated Philoxerus, can scat 
