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a half inches, producing scattered capillary fibres. Leaves flat, 

 a half to one inch long ; the radical leaves somewhat shorter 

 and broader than the others, the uppermost narrower than the 

 rest. Flower-heads about one-fourth of an inch long. In- 

 volucral bracts nine or ten, the inner not much longer than the 

 outer. Anandrous flowers eight or nine ; their ligular portion 

 white, hardly exceeding one line in length, undivided and acute. 

 Bisexual flowers three or four ; their corolla yellow, only about 

 one-eighth of an inch long, gradually widening upwards. Fer- 

 tile achenes nearly one and a half line long, truncated at the 

 summit ; their scales whitish and equal in length to the longer 

 bristles, which measure about one and a half line. Sterile 

 achenes with bristles of hardly one-fourth of their length. 



In flower during the early part of June, but continuing to 

 September. 



[Bead October 2, 1883.1 

 Babbagia pentaptera. 



A small undershrub, with diffuse procumbent branches and 

 numerous ascending branchlets ; leaves short, club-shaped or 

 linear semi-cylindrical, glabrous and succulent ; flowering 

 calyces somewhat downy ; style very short ; stigmas two ; fruits 

 streaked along their exceedingly short tube, only slightly 

 excavated at the base, angular from five very spreading stiff 

 prominences, and provided with five deltoid wedge-shaped 

 vertical imperfectly denticulated wing-like membranes, yel- 

 lowish, tinged with pink ; seeds very depressed. 



On barren stony ground, on the western slope of Mount 

 Parry, in the Aroona Eange. R. Tate. 



This new JBabhagia differs from its congener chiefly in 

 its fruit, the base of which is very much less protracted cylin- 

 drically, and the wing-like appendages being five in number, 

 almost dimidiated and at least slightly toothed. Through this 

 new plant a close connection is established between Bahhagia 

 and Kochia, more particularly so, as K. dichoptera has besides 

 its horizontal fruit-membrane also five vertically-ascending 

 appendages. To some extent Babhagia approaches also Bassia 

 through B. salsuginosa, although the fruits are less hard and 

 five-winged. 



Babbagia acroptera. 



Leaves oblong-semicylindrical ; fruit-calyx above the tubular 

 base turgid, thence produced into two oblique-roundish or 

 broad-cuneate completely terminal and conspicuously stipitated 

 membranous appendages. 



On loamy soils, from the slopes of the Aroona-Kange to 

 Lake Torrens. JB. Tate. jSTear Mount Murchison, Br. Beckler; 

 between Stokes Range and Cooper's Creek, Howitt. 



