Alternanthera.) XCVII. AMARANTACEÆ: 251 
Perianth-segments lanceolate, acute, 1 line long or a little more, with 
long woolly hairs outside; the inner ones narrower than the outer. 
Filaments short, only 3 bearing anthers, all dilated at the base. Stigma 
capitate, sessile in the flowers examined.—dZllecebrum angustifolium, 
Spreng. Syst. i. 818. 
eta: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Sturt’s Creek, F. 
Var. bois. More woolly. Leaves narrow-oblong, under 4 in. long. Spikes more 
woolly,—Arnhem's Land, /’. Mueller. ; 
hyrantha, Br., from 
uu and later the wool very conspieuous; the rhachis woolly. Brac- 
id labrous, ovate, obtuse or slightly mucronate, as long as the 
em erianth enveloped in long silky-woo airs proceeding 
of the ] to 2 lines long, thin and transparent w th the ne i 
Toe halt of the segments opaque, the 9 inner ents smaller 
3 of im nto a very short cup partially adnate to the p 
lon ee rou as far as 1 could ascertain. Style cee n 
peranth ovary, with a capitate stigma. Utricle od wd 2 
gustifoli compressed but rounded at the top and not notched. 
"iw Moq. hi DC. Prod: xiii. di Ri Br. 
erianth, only 
abo 
Prod. xiii. ii. 954, not of * 
' Australia, Greville isl tg harbour, NW. Coast, Bynoe— 3e 
rina are far advanced itko papse iia per 1 ad erii difficulty in ascertaining the 
Wool auge d the staminal apparatus owing to its extreme tenuity an to the copious 
Which it is enveloped, but I believe the above account of it to rrect. 
7. ; 
A. leptophylla, Benth. Stems slightly ) ik 
dri ow-linear, glabrous. Spikes ovoid (probably at leng 
Fo E cal) very shortly pedunculate in the axils, about in. diameter, 
achis slie tly woollv. 0 
perianth, the bracts shorter. Perianth I to 1 
with long woolly hairs on the back, and 
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