Ehagodia.] Cl. CHENOPODIACE/E. 1239 
so. Styles 2 or very rarely 3, shortly subulate, very shortly united at the base. 
Fruit a small depressed-globular berry. Seed flattened, horizontal ; testa 
crustaceous. Embryo circular, enclosing a mealy albumen.— Shrubs undershrubs 
or rarely herbs. Leaves alternate or some or nearly all opposite, flat, entire. 
Flowers small, sessile or very rarely pedicellate, in clusters or rarely solitary, in 
interrupted terminal spikes or panicles, without bracts. Perianth tomentose 
outside, glabrous inside. 
The genus is exclusively Australian, differing from Chenopodium in the succulent .pericarp 
n d usually in the more shrubby habit. The species are often very variable in stature and 
liage and very difficult to mark out by positive characters. 
Panicle usually much branched. 
Flowers polygamous. 
Leaves almost all alternate, mostly narrow and green above, paler or 
whiter underneath than above, the margins often recurved . ... 1. 12. Billardieri. 
Leaves alternate or opposite, mostly broad, flat, green or white on both 
sides 2. R. parabolica. 
Inflorescence nearly single or panicle not much branched. 
Fruiting-perianth 1 to line diameter and usually not' broader than 
the fruit. Leaves thick, rarely above 4in. long, linear cuneate or rarely 
obovate 3. 2?. crassifolia. 
Leaves flat, rather thin, mostly alternate broad and small. Plant 
spinescent 4. It. spinescens. 
Leaves thin, green, opposite or alternate. Plant usually slender or weak. 
Leaves mostly opposite, ovate or hastate, very obtuse . : 5. R. liastata. 
Leaves mostly opposite, lanceolate or broad, all acute 6. R. nutans. 
Leaves alternate, linear 7. R. linifolia. 
1. R. Billardieri (after .T. J. Labillardiere), E. Br. Prod. 408; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. v. 152. A shrub either straggling or diffuse, or erect and attaining 5 or 
Gft., the foliage and young shoots somewhat fleshy, rarely quite green, but usually 
with less of the mealy tomentum than most species, except on the inflorescence. 
Leaves alternate or rarely here and there opposite or nearly so, usually oblong- 
lanceolate or linear-oblong, but varying to quite linear or when small to ovate or 
broadly hastate, always obtuse, contracted into a short petiole, from scarcely |-in. to 
above lin. long, usually green above when full grown and pale or whitish under- 
neath, the margins ofteu recurved and never incurved. Panicle terminal, usually 
much branched and 1J to 2in. long, the branches rather slender and divaricate, 
the flowers small, polygamous, in distant clusters. Perianth about 1 line 
diameter, or when fully expanded under the fruit attaining 1£ line, lobed to 
about the middle. Berry when fully ripe as broad as or broader than the expan- 
ded perianth. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 21. Chenopodium baccatum, Labill. PI. Nov. 
Holl. i. 71, t. 96; Ehagodia baccata, Moq. in DO. Prod. xiii. ii. 50; Hook. f. FI. 
Tasrn. i. 312 ; E. Candolleana, Moq. Chenop. Enum. 10 (with small broad leaves 
approaching the var. congesta.) 
Hab.: Inland southern downs country. 
2. It, parabolica (parabolic), E. Br. Prod. 408; Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 153. 
An erect shrub, attaining sometimes 8 or 10ft., but often much lower, mealy- white 
all over or in the more slender specimens the adult leaves green. Leaves opposite 
or alternate, on rather long petioles, broadly ovate obovate or almost rhomboidal, 
usually rounded at the end and obtuse or shortly mucronate, contracted or rarely 
obtusely hastate at the base, rarely exceeding lin. and often under -|in. long. 
Flowers, as in R. Billardieri, polygamous, in distinct clusters along the divaricate 
branches of a terminal panicle, sometimes very dense and crowded, sometimes 
loose and slender. Perianth mealy-tomentose and sometimes densely so, the 
lobes ovate, obtuse, more united at the base than in most species, expanding to 
above 1 line diameter, but the succulent ripe fruit still larger. Seed about 1 line 
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