Pah MM 
Trichinium.] XCVII. AMARANTACER. 235 
the bracts shorter aud more acute. Perianth 5 to 6 lines long, the 
segments free almost or quite to the base, narrow, rigid, 3-nerved, plu- 
mose outside with rather rigid long hairs, with short glabrous tips 
rather longer and more obtuse in the outer than the inner se 
all peus inside. Staminal cup very short, densely covered outside 
long straight hairs; filaments unequal, all antheriferous or one 
without an anther. Ovary densely hairy.—Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii 
j Ptilotus fusiformis, Poir. Dict. Suppl. iv. 619. 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Dampier's Archi- 
pelago, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; Victoria river, F. Mueller. 
In. di 
Br, Australia, Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; N.W. coast, 
im 6. SqUAMIGERA.—Spikes globular or cylindrical, ; s i 
tw eter. Staminal cup with transparent scale-like teeth or lo 
een the filaments, 
ne of lobes of “the staminal cup, or — "€ coe ros ste 
y remove the three following species from the genus, but the chara 
mach cia, as not even to privo ie a good section, these species being péruage 
other. them more nearly allied to corresponding species in other groups than to eac 
: T. Drummondii, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 292. A glabrous 
ua, the stock branching at the base into several erect simple 
ngi but not stout stems of 1 to 2 ft., the radical leaves not parga 
m T. gomphrenoides. Stem-leaves linear, mucronate-acute, j to E 
n eu 
wool] us tips, the outer ones obtuse, th 
ti y mside below the middle. Filaments not very unequ 
nag to the top, very shortly united above the perianth- 
a ka ; eding from the 
i 999 ments, í cs PIN rummondü, F. Muell. Fragm. 
Vi. 3297 7. fusion gaoa: Ptilotus Dru , 8 
al, flat and 
tube, with 
Can ia. Swan river, Collie, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 431, Preiss, n. 1374; 
Bay, Oldfield ; Walker's Brook, Maxwell. 
