Anisacantha XCVI. CHENOPODIACEÆ. 199 
lobes and 3 to 5 dorsal divergent unequal spines, 1 usually much 
smaller than the others or reduced to a tubercle. Stamens 5 or fowe r. 
sessile andi often ip^ adnate at the base: to the stem and to the sub- 
tending leaf. Bracts none. 
The genus is limited to Australia. 
inear or ag lout es flat, contracted at the base. 
bega ines 5 o e ofte en very S mall . 2 A. muricata. 
Leaves small, linear, Ae hen flat, with a ibid d persistent ‘hardened 
erianth-spines 3:3 2. A. Drummondii. 
Leaves linear. terete or semi iterete 
"ane. spines 3 pireeeiy fune — very small. e 
rer doe eod to elong a: or rarely nearly 1 line ud. T e 
Y diffuse niderelhirub. " Perianth not ' exceeding 1 line, (A 
Pen d dum Smal di diffuse undershrab. “Perianth St ET : 
line 1 6. A. echinopsila. 
l A. muricata, Moq. Chenop. Enum. 84, and in DO. Prod. xii. U. 
122, À broad bushy or spreading shrub of 2 or 3 ft., with numerous 
Intricate Hed branches, the typical form quite glabrous and some- 
what glaucous, or the young shoots slightly villous. Leaves linear, 
rather thi 
95 the longest 3 to 6 ‘és when ilie smallest very short, and often the 
ae phas st united at the base.—A. quinquecuspis, F. Mué 
t. Inst. 1855, 134, and in Hook. Kew Journ. vili, 904. 
E wi Armadilla, Bart 
lroy C achlan” P Tivi and Molle's plains, Fr MEE ee 
à y Chat, Leich hhardt; Liverpool plains, C. Moore; Darling a sert plains radio 
re the old Plants detached by the winds and rolling over the desert p 
he name of “ ueller and others. 
i e s ns, softly villo 
licuspis, F. Muell. he whole plant, at least in young specime seem 
Fragm. ii. 170.—Mackenzie Downs, F. Mu 
us.— A. graci- 
= Drummondii hed shrub, glabrous 
ndii, Benth, A small much branche 
bu cept a few ly et ey es the leaves. Leaves linear, flat 
d thick, rarely almost terete, not 3 lines long in the x specs 
Worth a road hard base which persists after the leaf has 
