Gomphrena.] XCVII. AMARANTACEX, 287 
ing nearly 1 in. in length, pedunculate and solitary, or (in R. Brown’s 
i i id more conical. Bracts 
,N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Upper Victoria 
river and Sturt’s Creek, #. Mueller ; Lara station, Kennedy. 
12. G. conferta, Benth. Erect hard stout and probably tall, but 
^v spo annual i p 
a iew white woolly hairs and linear or linear-lanceolate leaves of 1 to 
m. Spikes ovoid or cylindrical, 3 to 4 lines diameter and some of 
ve li i d 
obtuse, rather longer than the perianth ; bracts shorter and more 
acute, Perianth-segments scarcely 1} lines long, woolly outside to 
: ; 
55 80 and narrower in the in Staminal tube short; filame 
dilated at th base, acuminate, without intervening teeth or lobes. 
te. 
Style short.— Iresine macrocephala, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 842. 
N. Australia ? Victoria river ? Bynoe. 
Queensland, Cape Flinders, A. Cunningham. - 
3. G. diffusa, Spreng. Syst. i. 894. Stems from a perennial od 
nd Stock procumbent, branching, slender, 1 to 2 ft. long, the 
; a 
iE and foliage softly pubescent. Leaves lapiecléti, Mum con- 
od. xiii. ii. 5 : 
"Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Brown. 
This and the following species have the habit almost as much of Alternanthera as of 
‘phrena, but the style is decidedly lobed. 
i G. parviflora, Benth. Stems long and slender, ele 
S turning red, the whole plant quite glabrous or with a few lo 
in on the young shoots, dinate 
te, with recurved margins, to 1 in. long. Spikes pedunculate, 
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