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Cl. CHENOPODIACEJE. 
[Atriplex. 
8. A. angulata (angular), Benth. FI. Austr. v. 174. Mealy or almost 
scaly-tomentose and probably herbaceous. Leaves on long petioles which are 
winged below the lamina, orbicular or broadly rhomboid, very obtuse, angular or 
sinuate, | to l|in. diameter. Flowers monoecious, the male clusters in the 
upper axils accompanied by a few females or 2 or 3 forming a short terminal 
spike, the lower axillary clusters small and all female. Fruiting perianth 
raised on a stipes of about 1 line, with a turbinate compressed tube 
of a little more than 1 line, and large green toothed valves, 3 lines broad or 
more. Fruit enclosed in the tube, but raised on a short solid base. Radicle 
superior. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 'll. 
Hab.: Inland localities. 
This plant has the foliage almost of A. nummularia, but the fruiting perianths cannot be 
referred to any of these of allied species.— Benth. 
9. A. semibaccata (part berry-like), B. Br. Prod. 406, not of Moquin ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. v. 175. Stems herbaceous, procumbent or prostrate, much 
branched and slender, spreading to 1 or 2ft., the whole plant green and nearly 
glabrous or mealy-white. Leaves petiolate, oblong oblanceolate or cuneate and ^ 
to lin. long or shorter and obovate, obtuse, entire or sinuate-toothed, rather thin. 
Flowers monoecious, the males in little globular clusters in the upper axils 
surrounded by a few females, and a few females alone in the lower axils. Fruiting 
perianth more or less rhomboidal, 1 4 to 24 lines long, and nearly as broad in the 
centre, the lower half a flattened triangular tube closed at the base, usually 
thickened (or sometimes fleshy ?) and prominently 3-nerved, the upper half 
consisting of the flat appressed triangular valves, entire or toothed at the base, 
herbaceous at least at the margins. Fruit half enclosed in the tube. Radicle 
lateral. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 8 ; A. denticulata, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 97. 
Hab.: Keppel Bay. Ii. Brown ; Kockhampton, O’Shanesy ; Darling Downs, Lau ; Armadilia- 
W. Barton ; Curriwillinghie, Dalton. A common plant on Downs country. 
10. A. XVIuelleri (after Baron Mueller), Benth. FI. Austr. v. 175. An erect 
or spreading annual of 1 or 2ft., with a hard base, more or less mealy- white, but 
not so densely scaly as the shrubby species. Leaves petiolate, broadly obovate 
ovate or rhomboidal, coarsely and irregularly sinuate-toothed or lobed, mostly 
from under lin. to about 2in. long and rather thin. Flowers small, monoecious, 
all axillary, the males in the upper axils in little globular heads surrounded by a 
few females, the females alone clustered in the lower axils. Fruiting perianths 
sessile, 1 to 14 line diameter, with a hard compressed globular smooth tube, the 
valves short broad appressed, shortly toothed. Fruit enclosed in the tube. 
Radicle superior. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 7. 
Hab.: Peak Downs, F. v. Mueller; Armaclilla, TV. Barton; Diamantina and other inland 
localities. 
Var. lobaticarpa , F. v. M. ; Kep. on plants collected by Ch. Wiunecke’s Exped. Plant 
dwarf procumbent or ascendent. Fruiting-periantk minute, bivalved to the middle, digitate 
or flabellate rhomboid, anteriorly cleft into 5 deltoid semi-lauceolate lobules, the lateral ones 
divergent or recurved but often abbreviated, lower portion of perianth thickened towards the 
middle but not appendiculated. — Hab.: Central Australia, on the border of Queensland and 
South Australia. — C. IV inneck e (F. v. M.). 
11. A. campanulata (campanulate), Benth. FI. Austr. v. 177. A peren- 
nial, with a hard almost woody stock and rather slender procumbent branching 
stems extending to 1 or 2ft., the whole plant nearly glabrous or mealy-white. 
Leaves shortly petiolate, obovate or oblong, entire or coarsely angular-toothed, 
mostly under 4in. or rarely nearly lin. long. Flowers monoecious, all axillary, 
the males forming little globular heads or clusters of little more than 1 line 
diameter surrounded by several females, or all the flowers female in the lower 
axils. Fruiting perianth very shortly stipitate, the tube obliquely campanulate, 
slightly compressed, about 1 line long in front, longer at the back ; the limb 
