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CI. CHENOPODIACEiE. 
[Chenopodium . 
long petioles, ovate or oblong, obtuse, coarsely sinuate toothed, usually rather 
thick and rugose, glandular-scabrous on both sides, A to lin. long, the upper floral 
ones often much reduced, and sometimes all the leaves almost orbicular and 
small. Flowers small, in dense globular clusters in almost all the axils, the 
upper ones sometimes forming interrupted more or less leafy spikes. Perianth- 
segments erect, incurved, broadly oblong, concave and almost boat-shaped, with 
a thickened broad obtuse keel, more or less pubescent or hirsute. Stamen usually 
1. Fruit small, ovoid, erect, the pericarp inseparable from the seed.— F. v. M. 
Ic. Sal. PI. 32. ; Salsula carinata, Spreng. Syst. i. 923 ; Ambrina carinata, Moq. 
Chenop. Enum. 41 ; Blitum carinatum and B. glandulosum, Moq. in DC. Prod, 
xii. ii. 81, 82 ; Chenopodium glandulosum, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 11. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay, IF. Hill and others; Peak Downs, F. v. M. ; Itockkampton, O'Shamsy ; 
Avraadilla, IF. Barton. 
8. C. cristaturn (crested), F. V. M. Fragm. vii. 11; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 
163. Diffuse or procumbent, with ascending flowering branches of 1ft. or more, 
the whole plant slightly glandular-pubescent. Leaves on long petioles, from 
ovate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, coarsely toothed, narrowed at the base, to 
lin. long, green and glandular-scabrous on both sides. Flowers in dense globular 
clusters, all axillary. Perianth-segments linear, erect, not incurved, acute, about 
1 line long when in fruit, the keel dilated into a broad fringed crest or wing. 
Fruit ovoid, erect, enclosed in the perianth. Styles very slender. — Blitum 
cristaturn, F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Yict. ii. 73 ; Sal. PI. 31. ; F. v. M. Ic. 
Hab.: Southern localities. 
9. C. simulans (resembling), F. v. M. Cens. Austr. Plants. An erect 
plant, stemless or very short stems or branches from the root, densely beset with 
short glandular hairs ; leaves conspicuously stalked, ovate-oblong, cuneate at 
the base, wavy at the margin or bluntly short-lobed. Flowers in 
elongated leafless, dense, simple spikes. Perianth-segments 3, somewhat 
scarious, inflated, prominently angular in front and at the margin, pointed at 
the summit, closing valvately over the fruit, the lateral angles membranous, not 
fringed; tube semi-ovate, papillular; stigmas 2, subtle-capillary. Fruit spherical, 
pale broAvn, smooth, translucent; embryo nearly semicircular .—Dgsphania 
simulans, F. v. M, et Tate, in Trans. Eoy. Soc. South Austr. viii. 71 ; F. v. M. 
Ic. Sal. PI. 34. 
Hab.: Queensland, locality not stated, F. v. M. 
3. ATRIPLEX, Linn. 
(From a, not, and traphein, to nourish). 
(Obione aud Theleophyton, 2Ioq.) 
Flowers unequal. Male perianth nearly globular, deeply divided into 5, rarely 
fewer segments. Stamens 5 or fewer. Female perianth very small at the time 
of flowering, 2-toothed or 2-lobed, enclosing the ovary. Styles 2, free or 
united at the base. Fruiting perianth much enlarged and variously shaped, the 
tube very small or large, flat or variously thickened, the limb of 2 variously 
shaped segments or valves closely appressed, at least at the margin (except in A. 
campanulata), entire or toothed. Fruit entirely enclosed in the tube or between 
the valves. Pericarp membranous, very thin. Seed compressed, vertical ; testa 
crustaceous, often thin with a very thin inner integument sometimes scarcely 
distinct. Embryo surrounding a mealy albumen, the radicle superior lateral or 
inferior. Herbs or shrubs, more or less mealy or scaly-tomentose. Leaves 
alternate or the lower ones rarely opposite, flat, entire hastate or sinuate-toothed. 
Male flowers in globular clusters, either detached from the females in close or 
interrupted simple or paniculate spikes, or axillary and then each cluster usually 
