Trichinium.] XCVII. AMARANTACER. 225 
. Upper ones narrower and more sessile. Spikes terminal, oblong, attaining 
. yellow, the tube 1 to 1j lines long and densely hirsute with short hairs, 
N. S. Wales. Lachlan river, Mitchell; Strangford Plains, A. Cunningham ; from 
F Lachlan, Murray, and Darling rivers to the a Range, Victorian and other 
itions, 
ia. Murray river, F, Mueller. 
„SA ia. Murry desert, St. Vincent's Gulf, Flinders’ Range, Cudnaka, F. 
Mueller ; near Adelaide, Whittaker. 
F. Mueller includes also under Ptilotus nobilis (Fragm. vi. 227) the T. ie agp rit 
E nanatum, which have similar bracts but usually smaller flowers, red not yellow, 
and with copious wool inside the lower part of the inner segments. 
y Voy. * 445. Stem 
eous, erect, paniculately branched. Leaves lanceolate, obtuse yj 
y mucronate, contracted at the base, green And ue P 
. 4 * 
3 longer, elliptical, obtuse, all 1-nerved, glabrous, pe brown, aiem 
f nes long, yellowish (Moquin), the segments linear-spath be i H 
glabrous tips and short rigid white dorsal hair s, the outer aue ime 
end, the inner ones somewhat acute. Filaments filiform.—Moq. 
ll, ii. 983. 
Sharks Bay, Gaudichaud. Pal lystachyus, F. 
d Ave no specimens answering to the above character. ru vig, onm tc 
EOM. Fragm, vi. 230; to race he refers Gaudichaud's plant, pty yy ines 
B. dant e and T. laxum, all of which have globular spikes and pin aane towers 
Neil. character comes nearest to that of T. nobile, but with didi = 
B her he nor Moquin describe the wool or hairs, if any, surrounding the s 
E cotes t of others. Stems 
| ‘ ephalum, R. Br. Prod. 415, not of ter 
E E vs perennial base erect or ascending, simple, stout and rigid, 
LI P , 
0 
0 
high, usuall labrous as well as the foliage. Leaves few at 
de base f the stem lin 
iv Agere lindri 
And distant, Spikes solitary, at first ovoid, at length cylindrical, 
Scari "8 4 or 5 in, in length and at least 2 in. diameter. Brac 
ous and ver shining, “obtuse or mucronate, without prominent 
> * dark colour, about $ in. long and the bracteoles — as 
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