8 



8 mm. across when spread open after the fruit has fallen; 

 testa black pitted. 



Eh. BUlardieri, R. Br. Ooldea Soak, flowering and 

 fruiting in September (Dist. W; J. M. B.). 



Atriplex Muelleri, Benth. Todmorden Station, Alberga 

 River (Dist. C; H. W. Andrew). 



A. limbatum, Benth. At Port Augusta West I col- 

 lected a form in which the fruiting bracteoles are of the 

 normal length (10-12 mm.), but the broad spreading interior 

 lobes of the bracteoles are reduced to a short membrane 

 terminating at each end in 2 small erect horns much shorter 

 than the 2 erect toothed outer lobes or appendages. The 

 fruiting bracteoles resemble those of A . leptocarpum, and this 

 form emphasizes the close relationship which exists between 

 the two species. 



A. crassipes, J. M. Black in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., 

 xlii., 171, t. 16 (1918). This name must be reduced to a 

 synonym, as a comparison with specimens in the Tate Herb- 

 arium proves it to be the same as A. elachophyllum, F. v. M., 

 Fragm. vii., 8 (1869). The type was collected by Mueller in 

 the "desert of Sturt Creek," N.T. My specimens came from 

 Marree (Hergott). Those in the Tate Herbarium are from Lake 

 Weatherstone (west of Lyndhurst Railway Station, 1883, R. 

 Tate), and Birksgate Range (1891, R. Helms). 



Salicornia pachystachya, n. sp. (Tab. ii.) Fruti- 

 culus humilis, cauiibus primo suberectis denique prostrato- 

 radicantibus, ramis ascendentibus saepius oppositis, sterilibus 

 articulis 5-15 mm. longis 3-6 mm. crassis saepe rubellis, lobis 

 inconspicuis appressis, spicis 12-25 mm. longis, noriferis 4-6 

 mm. crassis viridibus, fructiferis 7-8 mm. crassis rubro- 

 brunneis, fertilibus articulis 4-10, floribus in singulis semi- 

 verticillis plerumque quinis, summis saepe ternis, inferioribus 

 rarissime septenis, omnibus bisexualibus diandris proterogynis, 

 perianthio primum succulento deinde duriusculo duobus lobis 

 latissimis et brevissimis vel paene rima simplici longitudinali 

 hiante, pericarpio hyalino, semine suborbiculari compresso 

 exalbuminoso circiter 1^ mm. diametro, testa chartacea 

 straminea margine papillosa faciebus rugulosa, endopleura et 

 embryone S. austrcdis. Floret ab Augusto ad Novembrem, 

 fructificat a Novembri ad Januarium. 



South Australia. Near mouth of Patawalonga River 

 (Glenelg); Port Elliot (J. M. B.). 



Victoria. Lake Tyrrell (per H. B. Williamson). 



Western Australia, Near Perth (C. Andrews, Nos. 706, 

 707). I have not seen these specimens, but the Director of 



