50 FLORA OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
Fruit-calyx without any appendages besides the entire 
horizontal wings ; leaves very short. 
Leaves thick, ovate-triangular, mostly opposite 
Leaves almost terete, scattered 
m1. Fruit-calyx bordered by membranous hori- 
zontal wings, more or less united. 
Fruit-calyx with vertical wings. 
Vertical wings 3; horizontal wings united. Erect, 
glabrous ; leaves linear semiterete 
Vertical wings 5; horizontal expansion with 5 
subovate lobes, glabrous above; fruit spongy . 
Vertical wings 5; horizontal expansion Sissies 
complete, slightly lobed. Erect herbaceous 
stems clothed with dense cottony wool; fruit 
hard ae ny : 
Fruit-calyx without “pea wings. 
Fruit-calyx pyramidal atop. Shrubby, erect, 
shortly hairy; leaves short, linear or terete, thick 
Fruit-calyx flat atop or nearly so, 2, SAT ABER in 
dense wool ee ‘ = 
Fruit-calyx flat atop or Loti SO, ited or 
tomentose. 
Leaves linear-cylindric, about in. ; horizon- 
tal expansion usually red. Sepbby, more 
or less hairy 
Leaves crowded, short, ubick! selveta abecny 
Leaves minute or none; branches wiry, sia? 
almost glabrous, spinescent LA 
Leaves flat, lanceolate-linear, rocialively 
long. Dwarf herb se “K. 
1. Fruit-calyx bordered by an undivided rigid 
annular expansion. 
Expansion fringed with long soft hairs ... 3 
Expansion 5-angled; tubular part of calyx 5- pabhed:. 
Expansion with 10 to 12 short, rigid, radiating eras 
Bassia. 
1. Fruit-calyx without spines (also B. biflora). 
Flowers solitary, axillary. 
Fruit-calyx small, obliquely globose, indurated, glab- 
rous, with an obtuse hollow protuberance on one 
side. Prostrate, nearly glabrous; leaves narrow- 
linear ; seed vertical 4 
oppositifolia 
brevifolia 
triptera 
decaptera 
pentatropis 
pyramidata 
eriantha 
villosa 
sedifolia 
aphylla 
humillima 
ciliata 
brachyptera 
stelligera 
salsuginosa 
