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fruit-bearing calyx nearly globose, spongy, perfectly 

 closed, apiculate, without appendages ; seeds black- 

 brown, shining, roundish ovate ; radicule superior, 

 exerted. 

 On salt flats at Lake Torrens ; also on Hooker's Creek 

 and Sturt's Creek, in North-western Australia. 



Atriplex inflatum. 

 (OHone.) 

 Monoecious, shrubby, erect, ashy-grey ; leaves lanceolote 

 or nearly ovate, or rhomboid, quite entire or slightly 

 toothed ; flowers in glornerules or solitary ; fruit-bearing 

 calyx much enlarged, spongy, nearly turbinate, winged 

 by a transverse appendage, acuminate at the apex ; seeds 

 brown, shining, nearly round ; radicle inferior. 

 Eastern subtropical Australia. Sir Thomas Mitchell. Fre- 

 quent in the desert on Lake Torrens, the Murray, Darling, 

 Murrumbidgee, Dawson and Burnett River. 



Dissocarpus. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, twine, without bracteoles ; calyx 

 urceolate, with a five-cleft limb, unarmed, without aj)pen- 

 dages, at last indurated ; stamens 3-5 ; filaments subu- 

 late linear ; anthers cordate ovate ; styles two, capillary, 

 united at the base ; fruit consisting of two, rarely three, 

 long, divergent at the base turgid and connate calyces ; 

 caryopsis enclosed in the lower part of the calyx ; peri- 

 carp membraneous, distinct; seeds depressed, with a 

 membraneous testa ; embryo peripherical ; albumen 

 central, mealy. 

 A diffuse desert shrub of extra-tropical Australia, white 

 tomentose, with alternate linear channelled leaves, and axillary 

 flowers. 



A genus allied both to Didymanthus and Sclerolama. 



Dissocarpus biflorus. 



In the Murray desert, near Eustone. Scleroltena biflora 

 E,. Br. belongs possibly to this plant. 



Echinopsilon sclerolanoides. 

 (Eriochiton scleroltenoides. Ferd. Mueller Second Eeport, p. 15.) 



Suffruticose, erect ; leaves narrow lanceolate, acute, as well 

 as the branches woolly, downy, younger ones somewhat 

 silky; flowers axillary, solitary, forming leafy spikes; 



