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A low intricately branched perennial undershrub about 
1toi$feet high. The younger parts covered with whitish 
hairs becoming sparsely scattered or absent when older. 
Leaves thick fleshy, obtuse, narrowed at the base, rarely 
exceeding a centimetre in length, drying tuberculate with 
rather large scattered hairs. Flowers closely sessile in 
the axils of the upper leaves. Fruiting perianth enlarging 
to a continuous brown glabrous horizontal wing 15-18 
millimetres diameter. Of the 5 central slightly raised 
lobes of the perianth tube, the two lateral ones bear each 
a pair of erect more or less toothed appendages, blunt or 
somewhat tapering. Of the remaining 3 lobes one of the 
anterior pair bears a single similar appendage, the posterior 
lobe and the other anterior one have none, so that the five 
appendages are really asymmetric. 
This plant was first described and the name issued in MS. 
A specimen submitted to Mr. Fitzgerald was however 
marked by him as K. Atkinsiana. ‘“* Differs from type in 
somewhat larger leaves, and in the appendages being free 
and not 4 connate in pairs and free.’’ This cryptic state- 
ment is somewhat incomprehensible, but the plant tallies 
closely with Fitzgerald’s original description and is evi- 
dently the same; the red colour of the perianth probably 
fading in dried specimens. To avoid possible error a full 
and complete description is given. 
In the erect appendages the plant shows a relationship 
to K. lanosa, from which in all other points it differs widely. 
In the horizontal wing it resembles K. villosa, Lindl., of 
which species it at first seemed to be a variety. Though 
nearly circular the margin is always a little irregular and 
sometimes distinctly lobed, so that the plant forms an 
interesting connecting link between the first section of 
Kochia with vertical sinus appendages and with free hori- 
zontal wing lobes, and between the villosa section without 
