360 
barren articles 3-5 mm. long, 2 mm. thick, the lobes rather 
acute and keeled; spikes 8-22 mm. long, terminating short, 
opposite branches; fertile articles 5-15, 2 mm. long, 3 mm. 
thick ; flowers in 3's, all bisexual, but (at least in the specimens 
examined) very few of them ripening fruit; seed compressed, 
ovate, 1 . long; testa reddish-brown, granular on the 
back, smooth in front; endopleura membranous; albumen 
lateral; embryo slightly curved, the cotyledons one-third as 
long as the radicle. : 
. Australia. Cowcowing, near salt lakes (type collected 
by Max Koch, Sept., 1904, No. 1051); Lake Lefroy (R. 
Helms, Nov., 1891, “1-3 feet high, in sand on margin of lake, 
in the Tate Herb. as Salicornia bidens). 
3. A. leiostachyum, (Benth.) Paulsen in Dansk Bot. 
Ark. (1918), ii., No. 8, 61, fig. 24 et tab. 5, fig. 2. (Pl. xxxv.) 
T T. G. B. 
Osborn, October, 1912); salt and rather swampy land behind 
l (J.M. B, 4a 
Creek : 
, 1881; in National 
