76 Neio Australian Plants. 



fruit-bearing calyx with its spines involved in a dense 

 wool, spines incurved, a little longer than the breadth of 

 the calyx; pericarp woolly. 



Desert of Lake Torrens, of the Murray and Darling. 



Another species occurs in eastern subtropical Australia, 

 which I may notice here for the sake of completeness. 



Echinopsilon anisacantlioid.es. 



Suffruticose, erect, glabrous ; leaves crowded, thin, nearly 

 cylindrical, acute ; flowers axillary, solitary ; calyx tur- 

 binate hemispherical, scarcely as long as its spines ; one 

 spine often bifid. 

 This species differs from Anisacantha merely in the position 

 of its seeds. 



Sclerochlamys. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, without bracteoles, solitary; calyx 

 minute, five-toothed, at last indurated, five-ribbed, and 

 surrounded by an extremely narrow wing ; stamens 3-5 ; 

 anthers cordate ovate ; styles two, capillary ; caryopsis 

 depressed, enclosed in the long turbinate calyx ; pericarp 

 membraneous, distinct ; seeds horizontal ; testa membra- 

 neous ; embryo peripherical ; albumen central, mealy. 

 A perennial procumbent, villous plant of extra-tropical 



Australia, with alternate linear crowded leaves and axillary 



flowers. 



Sclerochlamys brachyptera. 



Kochia villosa, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Australia, p. 91, according to Diagnosis. 

 Kochia brachyptera, Ferd. Mueller, Second Gen. Eeport, p. 15. 



In the desert on the Murray, Darling and Lake Torrens. 

 Enchylcena R. Br. 



(Sect. Heteroehlamys.) 



Lobes of the fruit-bearing calyx distinct, coriaceous, or at 

 least not succulent. 



Enchylana villosa. 



Stems short, herbaceous, procumbent or adscendent ; leaves 

 flat, oblong or lanceolate linear, acute, villose ; lobes of 

 the^ fruit-bearing calyx pubescent, upwards dilated, free, 

 coriaceous, with an inflexed margin ; caryopsis glabrous. 



In loamy plains near Adelaide and in Bacchus Marsh. 



