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and flat, each of the three containing a perfect hips seed, and I have 
found no trace of any stamen, but the s specimens all past ower, 
. S. Wales. Darling desert, Victorian Expedition mi - probably the same 
n d soba (9 
Preen ^ alia. In the interior, Howitt’s Expedition (4) and M'Douall Stuart's 
xpedition 
e s specimens are Er few and I do not feel certain that the male and the fruiting 
ctly matched. "They all differ from the other Australian species in their 
oce hcm with ^n more or less membranous margins to the upper end. 
not 
and either quite terete on pincel d -lobed. Spikes cylindrical, 1 
? in. long, usually thicker than the stems, the articles about 1 line lng, 
dilated at the top into slightly rominent rings but not lobed. Flow 
or ? together side by side, all hermaphrodite or the ovaries of the 
lateral ones abortive, mostly if not all diandrous. Perianths free and 
distinct, shortly immersed at the base, the central ones rather longer 
the lateral, but all shortly prominent beyond the subtending ring, 
dnte obliquely truncate andi dat at the top and almost ee edis the 
mmute connivent ETT S. indica, R. Br. p od. 411; 
eensland ? Fitzro river, Thozet (not in flowe 
N.S. hela ? m river, Be —- d river, Wilcox (not in flower). 
P Com n wet marshy places on the seashore, diues Robertson ; 
ort Philo and Station Peak, F. Mueller ; site marshes, Strea tham 
pi asais, Abundant in stony places near the sea and in all salt marshes, J. D. 
x" Uustralia. Fowler’ a foc Petrel Bays, R. UN 
Australia. King e's Sound, R. Bro 
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shall T stations given above must remain "doubtfal until flowering specimens 
p 4. Sa gie .— Branches continuous (not articulate). s 
iral Y, flat, or erete, entire. "Testa of the seed various. Embryo 
? ly coiled, Alana albumen 
, 14. SUMDA, Forsk. 
; (Chenopodina, Mog.) 
5 e Llowers mostly hermaphrodite. Perianth depressed-globular, herba- 
«0028 or slightly fleshy, with 5 broad lobes connivent over the fruit, 
