194 XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE. [Selerolena. 
or ese Flowers sessile in the axils, enveloped in cottony wool or 
soft hai 
The genus is limited to Australia. It is nearly allied to kj A but the spines 
of the perianth (which I always find dorsal, not terminating lobes as described by 
Moquin) are two only, an a Seed is not so distinctly pA 
Flowers pow: in the 
Fruiting L gere 1 ie i lines long and usually as broad, tomen- 
n or nearly gla 
urit es mas FER ards. thick and obtuse. Spines of the : 
ianth very short. 1. S. uniflora. 
Um na commana rather acute. Spines 1 to 3 lines long, 
g 2. S. diacantha. 
Fruiting perianth 2 ex ke densely covered as well as the spines viaa 
ong hairs. . 3. S. lanicusps. 
Fruiting perianth 2 to 3 lines diameter, enveloped i in a thick mass es 
of white cottony wool. Spines } to nn in. long 4. S. bicornis. 
pesi 2 or 3 together united at ake base iem diverging horizon- 
tally , 
Flowers several im united in a hard globular mass . . € paradoxa. 
S. coriacea, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii, ii. 128, fied the Barren islands (off the S. coast?) 
Herb. M Me. Par., 18 RS. to me, an ing no spines to the perianth may no not be 
a true congener. Branches densely silly. hoary. Leaves imbricate, elliptical or 
oblong-elliptical, obtuse or rather acute, coriaceous, white — aes Le 
lines long, 1 to 14 lines broad. Flowers solitary, tomentose, dic Fuiti ng 
peri rianth end spines. Styles much exserted, villous at the base Mi od hairs. 
. Br. Prod. 410. A diffuse or decumbent much- 
bu uniflora 
eure DP or shrub, not exceeding 1 ft., covered with a dense 
horizontally annular - the base, with the radicle ae up ie i 
eine end and e rect.—Moq. i n DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 123, p 
S. Australia. Fowler's Bay, R. Bro 
W. Australia. Dirk s [erg A. Cunningham ; Sharks Bay, Mine. 
Moquin has correctly named Cunningham's West Australian Se authority in H 
iom. bat in in giving the station, Liverpool Plains, i 
Prodro rom Herb. DC., he must have had in view some other plant, pro 
boli s Species, which may indeed prove to be only a variety of it. 
2. S. diacantha, Benth. A diffuse or prostrate undershrub, densely 
clothed with a soft fulvous or white remisi more silky on the mns 
ves sessile, linear, mostly acute, very soft, sometimes rather 
and e to 1 in. e oe pec and narrow er, 
