Cl. CHENOPODIACEjE. 
1247 
A triple. r.] 
smaller. Flowers semidioecious, the males in dense globular clusters of 2 to 4 
lines diameter collected into a te rminal spike either short and interrupted at 
the base or 2 or Bin. long with a few short densely oblong or cylindrical branches, 
the flowers often not quite sessile in the clusters. Female flow T ers in axillary 
clusters on the female plants, and also 1 or 2 female flowers in the axils of the upper 
stem-leaves of the male plants. Fruiting perianths with an obovoid or turbinate 
solid base, 1 to nearly 2 lines long, the valves broadly triangular or rhomboidal, 
from under 3 lines to above 4 lines diameter, free almost from the base, entire, 
flat or thickened over the fruit, smooth or rarely with 1 or 2 tubercles on the 
disk. Fruit at the base of the valves. Radicle ascending. — Moq. in DC. Prod, 
xiii. ii. 101 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i, 314 ; F. v. M.Ie. Sal. PI. 15; A. lialimus, R. 
Br. Prod. 406, not of Linn.; A. halimus, ft ascendens Nees in PI. Preiss. i. 633 ; 
A. elceagnoides, Moq. Enum. Chenop. 65. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham. 
5. A. vesicaria (bladdery), Heward, MS. ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 172. A 
bushy shrub, apparently erect, covered with a scaly tomentum. Leaves oblong 
oblong-lanceolate or rarely almost obovate, obtuse or almost acute, entire, 
contracted into a short petiole, from under £in. to about fin. long. Flowers 
monoecious (or sometimes dioecious ?), the males in small clusters forming 
rather dense terminal leafless spikes of \ to lin. ; females few together in axillary 
clusters. Fruiting perianth nearly orbicular, 3 to 5 lines diameter, the valves 
membranous, very shortly connate, very obtuse or obscurely acuminate, the 
margins entire, flat but each with a membranous inflated appendage on the disk 
nearly as large as the valve itself. Seeds rather large, compressed; radicle 
lateral. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 18. 
Hab.: The Barcoo, Diamautina and many other inland localities. 
6. A. patula (slightly spreading); Linn.; Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 95 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. v. 173. An erect spreading or prostrate annual, usually 1 to 
2ft. long, either quite green or somewhat mealy-white, never so thickly scaly as 
most species. Leaves petiolate, the lower ones usually lanceolate-hastate, 
coarsely toothed or somewhat lobed, often 3in. long or more, the upper ones 
lanceolate and entire. Flowers clustered in slender interrupted spikes forming 
narrow terminal panicles leafy at the base, the upper floral leaves reduced to 
small bracts, the female flowers mixed with the males or a few in separate 
axillary clusters. Fruiting perianths ovate or rhomboidal, usually acute, the 
valves united to near the middle, entire or toothed, smooth or muricate on the 
disk, very variable in size and shape but usually under 2 lines diameter. — Radicle 
lateral or ascending. — Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 314 ; A. australasica, Moq. in DC. 
Prod. xiii. ii. 96. 
Hab.: Islands of Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller. 
The species is very common in Europe and a great part of Asia, including several described 
as distinct by Moquin, and is probably only of modern introduction into Australia. — Benth. 
7. A. humilis (low), F. v. M. Fragni. iv. 48; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 174. 
Stems hard and more or less decumbent at the base, ascending to about 
lft., the branches and foliage mealy or minutely scaly-tomentose. Leaves 
nearly sessile, mostly lanceolate or oblong-linear, obtuse, entire, contracted 
at the base, rarely above iin. long, the lower ones longer. Flowers 
monoecious, the males in compact sessile terminal spikes of f to 4-in., the 
females all axillary and densely clustered. Fruiting perianths broadly rhomboid, 
1| to2i lines diameter, with a small thick turbinate solid base, the valves entire, 
free almost to the base, herbaceous and reticulate. Seeds orbicular ; radicle 
superior. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 9. 
Hab.: Subsaline banks of Flinders River, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller. 
