Trichinium.) XCVII. AMARANTACER. 241 
Serius 9. HarrcnnysorpzA.— Characters the same as of the — 
46. T. helic 
ies lranched stock covered p die withered remains of old leaves, 
fine hairs rather vem "€ silky on o dowd portion, shorter on the 
Upper cd. the glabrous tips ver key all abe amide. Fils a- 
aie ase and very sho ortly united, sur- 
unded by very few hairs only, but the ovary very densely hirsute.— 
Putri, Kir AE F. Muell. Fragm. i. 237 ; Ptilotus helichrysoides, 
F. Muell. Fragm 
The : Australia, Sos nes hills near Baker's Well, Port "ras Oldfield.— 
species has no "immediate affinity with any other one known 
Species insufficiently known. 
. T. parvifo Muell. Rep. Babb. Exped. l9. Of this the 
only specimen is a slender branching fragment, not 6 in. long, pubes- 
with a few short woolly hairs Leaves few, minute, ovate or 
ceolate, acute, none of wen above 1 line lon g. No perfect spikes 
cimen 
on the spe ut only a very few flowers apparently like those of 
co tum but sma Sha —Ptilotus parvifolius, F. Muell. Fragm. 
8. Australia. Stuart’s Creek, Babbage's Expedition. 
6. PTILOTUS, R. Br. 
a, lowers hermaphrodite. ae segments 5, linear, free or united 
» very short tube at the sas ri id, the lower portion us — 
inia da TO ide 1 la 
ud Ovary uniovulate; style central or slightly excen- 
(or ah Fruit an indehiscent utricle. Seed vertical.— Herbs Minn 
$ del s?) annual and glabrous except the inflorescence. Flowe 
"i inira or » cylindrical spikes, with a woolly rhachis. Braeis 
E iens Scar 
: E i rickinium, th tpe s probably limited to Australia. P. corymbosus 
r so in the 
wa to be ed island of Flores in the Moluccas, but from Blume's 3 
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