74 New Australian Plants. 



entire, nearly smooth, gradually narrowed at the hase ; 



branches of the panicle short and rigid ; flowers sessile 



polygamous. 

 Throughout the interior of Australia, from Arnhem's Land 

 to Lake Torrens, the Murray River and its tributaries. 

 In habit resembling Nitraria Billardierii. 



Chenopodium microphyllum. 



Perennial, prostrate, much branched ; leaves minute, ovate 



or lanceolate, stalked, entire, above green, beneath 



powdery-grey ; glomerules spikate, few-flowered, on very 



short peduncles; calyx five-cleft, scarcely ribbed; the 



fruit-bearing one imperfectly closed ; seeds black, slightly 



wrinkled, opaque, blunt at the margin ; embryo forming 



a perfect ring. 



Near the Barossa range. Dr. Behr. Also at Enfield, in 



South Australia, and in Bacchus Marsh, generally on slaty 



ridges. 



Atriplex rhagodioides. 

 (Teutliopsis.) 



Monoecious, shrubby, erect, grey ; leaves ovate hastate, 

 stalked, entire or imperfectly toothed ; female glome- 

 rules axillary, male ones in paniculate spikes; fruit- 

 bearing calyx rhomboid, without appendages, coriaceous, 

 entire, above the middle open; seeds brown; radicule 

 lateral. 



In the saline desert on the River Murray and Darling and 

 on Lake Torrens. 



Atriplex leptocarpum. 



(Obione.) 



Monoecious, stems herbaceous, leaves small, ovate or 

 rhomboid cuneate, ash-grey, unequally toothed or nearly 

 entire ; flowers axillary glomerate or in short spikes ; 

 fruit-bearing calyx oblong, compressed, oblique truncate 

 or smewhat acute, entire, open only at the apex, smooth 

 or with tubereles at the middle ; seeds brown. 



In the desert on the Murray and Darling. 



Atriplex spongiosum. 

 (Obione.) 



Monoecious, suftruticose, ashy-grey ; stems dwarf, erect ; 

 leaves small, rhomboid or lanceolate ovate, acute, repand 

 or with a few teeth ; flowers in glomerules, or solitary ; 



