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perianth herbaceous and somewhat fleshy, dilated and truncate 

 at the summit, protruding conspicuously beyond the fertile 

 articles and finally adherent to the base of the pericarp; 

 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^ mm. 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. 



W. 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 Salic ornia bid ens J. 



3. A. leiostachyum, (Benth.) Paulsen in Dansk Bot. 



Ark. (1918), ii., No. 8, 61, fig. 24 ettab. 5, fig. 2. (PI. xxxv.) 

 Erect shrub, 40-100 cm. high, branchlets and flowering spikes 

 dark green and stouter than in other species ; barren articles 

 5-8 mm. long, 4-7 mm. thick, very shortly 2-lobed and usually 

 ciliolate on the margin, dilated and keeled below the lobes ; 

 spikes 10-30 mm. long, terminal and lateral; fertile articles 

 6-16, very short (2-3 mm. long) 4-7 mm. thick, in fruit brown 

 and overlapping closely, so as to make the spike appear almost 

 continuous; flowers in 3's, all bisexual; fruiting perianth 

 spongy or fleshy, dilated at summit, adherent to pericarp, 

 which is horny, ovate-oblong and tapering towards summit; 

 seed slightly compressed, ob ovate, smooth, whitish, 1-1^ mm. 

 long ; seedcoats coherent ; embryo sometimes almost straight, 

 not reaching the summit of the seed, so that the albumen is 

 terminal as well as lateral; cotyledons one-third, or sometimes 

 nearly as long as rudicle. — Salicornia leiostachya, Benth. Fl. 

 Aust., v., 203 (1870). A. BeMhami, Paulsen, I.e., 62, fig. 24 

 et tab. 6, fig. 2 (judging from the description and the identi- 

 fication of a specimen collected at Port Adelaide by J. G. O. 

 Tepper and seen by Paulsen in the Berlin Herbarium). 



S. Australia. Port Adelaide River (Prof. T. G. B. 

 Osborn, October, 1912); salt and rather swampy land behind 

 sand dunes at the Grange, near Adelaide (J. M. B., Jan.- 

 April, 1919); Mulgundawa, near Lake Alexandrina (J. M. B., 

 October, 1906); Marree (J. M. B., October, 1917); Elder 

 Expedition, May 25 (in Tate Herb, as S. leiostachya; no 

 locality given, but the expedition was, on May 25, 1891, at 

 Arcoellinna Well, at the head of the Arkaringa Creek). 



N. Territory. Finke River (H. Kempe, 1881 ; in National 

 Herb, of Victoria as S. leiostachya); 10 miles west -south-west 



