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nelong. Fruit still shorter, EAR pat p oblique; style 1, very 
fy at filiform and very deciduous. s 1 or 2 but difficult to find, 
the anthers falling off early from re i pee flowers. 
alia. Moist salt places on bin N. coast (snatched up in Pant My of 
escape from an armed native in close pursuit, and never seen again), 
S. Au I Flooded ground S. of Wills Creek, Howitt’s pde oae 
rarely ihove iin. long. Flower- alates all a and distinct, very 
numerous, occupying the greater part of the plant, globular and oic) 
exceeding line in diameter when in fruit, and o en much sm ler, 
mens lor2, with very short broad filaments and Wages large, 
cag rp. littoralis, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. of R 
ctoria. dy occasionally flooded banks of the Murray near the junction of the 
Cal Z -Ma eller 
alia, | Drummo e n. 
fis uin's desert is taken from a ppt en of Drummond’s in which he i sr 
rectly men ed the two styles, "but i in which I have always found in ene lili of 6 a- 
man early as many ni alis à s enlarged pers Lie a these fall o p: 
rately, itis difficult to ascertain w may not sometim 
om ja k pribing three has d. followed Brown’ 8 pre founded on the 
4, ATRIPLEX, Linn. 
(Obione and Theleophyton, Moq.) 
Flowers unequal. Male PaE gi fever Fe € divided 
, e 
le perianth 
e tube or betw o 
ves. Pericarp membranous, very thin. Seed compressed, veris 
s a 
Male 
ate or sinuate-t 
glob om Cada dn detached from the ciim ptr in close or interrupted 
