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of Stuart Range (G. F. Hill, June, 1911; in National Herb. 
of Victoria as S. leiostachya); between Crown Point and 
Horseshoe Bend, Finke River (S. A. White, Aug. 1913). 
W. Australia. No locality (Drummond, in National 
Herb. of Victoria as S. leiostachya). This is one of Drum- 
mond's specimens, on the strength of which Bentham included 
lestern Australia (l.c. 204). It strongly resembles the 
eastern specimens, but it has no fruit. 
he coastal form is a stouter plant with thicker articles 
than those of the form found in the interior of the continent. 
4. A. arbuscula, (R. Br.) Moq. Chenop. enum., 113, 
ann. 1840. (Pl. xxxv.) Shrub 30-80 cm high; branches 
often erect and rather slender; barren articles dark green, 
3-4 mm. thick, contracted at summit, lobes obtuse and 
inconspicuous; spikes terminal and lateral, 6-10 mm. long, 
often reddish and spreading; fertile articles 2-6, 3-4 mm. 
thick, almost globular (with the exception of the obconical 
part concealed in the inferior article); flowers in 3's, he 
central one bisexual, the 2 lateral male; perianth at first 
pericarp, contracted towards summit, persistant; fruit rather 
erect, triangular in outline, the style protruding beyond the 
perianth; pericarp horny; seed slightly compressed, obovoid, 
13-2 mm. long, smooth, straw coloured ; seedcoats membranous, 
coherent; embryo reaching summit of seed; albumen lateral; 
cotyledons half as long as the radicle.—Salicornia arbuscula, 
R. Br., Prodr., 411 (1810). 
Victoria. Point Lonsdale (ann. 1867 ; in National Herb. 
N.S. Wales as S. arbusculd); Wimmera (Dallachy; in 
National Herb. of Victoria as S. arbuscula ). 
asmania. I have seen a specimen from W. H. Archer's 
Herb. of Tasmanian plants, in the National Herb. of N.S. 
Wales, without locality or date. 
have here treated the East-Australian specimens as the 
ro ives ^M D" as his localities, 
romontory, 
the Western Australian specimens quoted by Bentham I have 
only examined one of Drummond's from Swan River, which 
