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Shrubby; branches very spreading, densely beset with very 

 small glomerules of leaves, always tomentellous, sometimes 

 getting spinescent ; leaves very minute, closely crowded in each 

 glomerule, from lanceolar verging into an ovate or rhomboid 

 form, concave, partially lanuginous, some shortly petiolate ; flower- 

 ing calyx whitish-velutinous, its lobes inflexed-appressed, but 

 soon erect and irregularly elongating into somewhat spathular 

 crisped membranous appendages; stigmas two; fruiting calyx 

 almost flat below and there radiatingly ten-streaked, slightly 

 elevated above, horizontally expanding "into a lobeless or slightly 

 interrupted broadish membrane ; fruit depressed, outside 

 brownish ; albumen of the seed scanty. 



^ Attains a height of two feet. A remarkable plant, the fruit 

 of which now only known through Mr. Tyson's collection. 



Although systematically allied to K. ixphylla, it is by the in- 

 numerable, mostly globular, clusters of leaves, so different in 

 aspect from any other Kochia, as to appear quite str-ange in that 

 genus ; indeed, seen in foliage only, the plant rather reminds of 

 Ast&r lepidophyllus, so far as Australian forms of vegetation are 

 concerned. 



-t\ r. M. S.A., Cootanoorina. 



W.A., Victoria Desert (0. 63). 

 V. M. W.A., near Hunt's Well, 



M. W.A., Victoria Desert 



BaBBAGIA DIPTEKOCARPA, 



Bassia carnosa, /''. V. 31. 



Bassia eueotioides, F. 

 Hampton Plain. 



Bassia scLEKOL.t;NoiDEs, F. 

 (C. 53, C. 55, C. 56) ; Camp 66 



Bassia Birchii, F. v. M. A remarkably dwarf form, although 

 copiously fruiting. S.A., between Everard and Birksgate Ranges. 



Bassia uniflora, F. v. M. W.A., Victoria Desert (C. 53). 



Bassia diacantha, F. v. M. S.A., Upper Arkaringa Valley; 

 W.A., Victoria Spring, Eraser Range. 



Bassia laxicusfis, F. v. 31. S.A., Arkaringa Creek. 



Bassia bicornis, /'. v. 31. S.A., Warrina. 



Bassia paradoxa, F. v. 31. S.A., Arkaringa Valley. 



Bassia bicuspis, /-'. ,;. 31. S.A., Upper Arkaringa Valley. 



Bassia eciiinopsila, /''. v. M. W.A., Victoria Desert (C. 54). 



ENCHYLiENA TOMBNTosA, E. Broion. S.A., Cootanoorina ; 

 -eastern edge of Everard Range. 



Salicornia arbuscdla, B. Brown. S.A., Cootanoorina. 



Salicornia leiostaciiya, Bentliam. S.A., Cootanoorina. 



Salicornia bidens, Bentham. W.A., Lake Lefroy. 



Salicornia tenuis, Bentham. S.A., Nilpena. 



Salsola Kali, .Linne. S.A., Warrina, Cootanoorina ; W.A., 

 Camp 26, Eraser Range. 



Var. Strobilipera. S.A., Warrina. 



