196 XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE, [ Sclerolena, 
. S. Wales. Molle’s Plains, A. Cunningham; between the Darling river and 
the Barrier Range, Mitchell, Victorian. Expedition; Mount Murchison, Bonney; 
Ballandool river, Locker. 
S. Australia. Cooper's Creek, Murray. 
inner lobes without any or sometimes with 1 or: 
dorsal minute tubercles or short spines. Pericarp depressed. Seed hori- 
zontal or somewhat oblique with an ascending rostellum. Embryo an- 
nular with an ascending or erect radicle.—M.oq. in DC. Prod. xim. 8. 
193; Dissocarpus biflorus, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. i. 75. 
N.S. Wales. Sandhills, Darling river, Victorian Expedition. 
Victoria. Murray river, F. Mueller. 
S. Australia. Petrel Bay, R. Brown. 
S. 
undershrub, rarely exceeding 1 ft., densely clothed with a loose oM 
wool. Leaves sessile, narrow-linear, obtuse, soft and woolly or rarely 
becoming glabrous with age, from under 1 to nearly } in. long 
to aglobular cottony or woolly mas 
5 or 6 lines diameter, each perianth with 1 or 2 small dorsal spmés 
shortly protruding from or almost concealed in the wool. Se neatly 
2s ; - 
circle with the radicle turned upwards over the cotyledonar end.— " 
in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 193. 
N. S. Wales. Lachlan river, A. Cunningham (not yet in flower, and therefore Ur 
certain) ; Herb. F. Mueller (collector not named); Darling river, Victorian Exped 
tion ; ount Murchison, Er 2 i 
urray river, ata . 
S. Australia. S. Vincent's Gulf, R. Brown; Murray Scrub, F. Mueller. 
1l. THRELKELDIA, R. Br. 
(Osteocarpus, F. Muell.) 
, Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth urceolate or cylindrical, hard = 
in fruit, with 4 or 5 short membranous lobes, without any dorsal po 
* * : A P wer. 1 
dages or in one species with 5 mel erect spines. Stamens 5 perianth 
