Atriplex.] 
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much dilated, very oblique, the valves unequal and scarcely appressed, each one 
8-lobed ; with 2 small herbaceous appendages on the front or shorter face of the 
tube. Fruit enclosed in the tube. Radicle superior. 
Hab.: Inland localities. 
It approaches in habit, foliage and inflorescence A. leptocarpa , but the fruiting-perianth is 
totally different. — Bentli. 
12. A. fissivalvis (valves split), F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 123. Clothed 
slightly by a furfuraceous tomentum. Leaves \ to lin. long, deep-green, 
rhomboid, the margin repand or a little toothed. Flowers in clusters, the 
terminal ones male, axillary ones female. The fruiting perianth almost rhom- 
boid, lb to 3 lines long and broad, acuminate, the segments deeply laciniate. 
Seeds scarcely ^ line long. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 1. 
Hab.: Inland localities. 
13. A. leptocarpa (fruit slender), F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Viet. 
ii. 74 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 173. A perennial with a thick stock and herbaceous 
procumbent stems extending to 1 or 2ft., the whole plant more or less hoary 
or white with a scaly tomentum. Leaves obovate or oblong, obtuse, entire 
when narrow, coarsely angular-toothed when broad, from under lin. to nearly 
2in. long. Flowers monoecious, all axillary, the males in little globular dense 
sessile heads of 1 to 1^ line diameter, mostly 4-lobed, surrounded by several 
females or sometimes females only in the lower axils more or less stipitate. 
Fruiting perianth narrow tubular, cylindrical, 2 to 4 lines long, the lower 
portion (£ to §■) rather hard, enclosing the fruit which is more or less raised 
on the solid base of the tube, the upper portion above the fruit more 
herbaceous, green and elegantly veined, the orifice closed by 2 very short 
triangular entire valves not broader than the tube and without appendages. 
Radicle ascending or superior. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 3. 
Hab.: Curriwillinghie, Dalton-, St. George, J. Wedd; Paroo, F. v. Mueller. 
14. A. limbata (bordered), Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 178. A procumbent or 
spreading perennial with the habit, foliage and inflorescence of A. leptocarpa, 
but more scaly-tomentose. Leaves obovate or oblong, entire or angular- 
toothed. Flowers monoecious, all axillary, the male clusters in the upper 
axils surrounded by females, the lower clusters all females. Fruiting perianth 
with a cylindrical tube enclosing the fruit as in A. leptocarpa, but sessile and 
usually rather larger and harder, and sometimes the solid base much elongated, 
extending the whole tube to Ipn. or more, but varying in this respect even in 
the same cluster, the orifice closed by 2 valves reduced to 3 lobes, of which 
the lateral ones are spreading incurved and hornlike about 1 line long, those 
of the 2 valves more or less united, the central lobe minute or almost obso- 
lete, and alternating with the horns are 2 herbaceous spreading broad dorsal 
appendages, also about 1 line long, giving the apex of the perianth the appear- 
ance of a spreading 4-lobed limb, but with the disk closed. Radicle of the 
seed ascending or superior. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 4. 
Hab.: Southern localities. 
15. A s halimoides (Halimus-like), Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. i. 285 ; 
Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 178. A procumbent or diffuse perennial or undershrub, 
with the habit and inflorescence of A. holocarpa, but usually not so white and 
the leaves narrower mostly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate and acute, but some- 
times as tomentose and passing into the small rhomboidal form of that species. 
Fruiting perianth enlarged to 4 to 6 lines diameter, loosely fibrous and spongy 
with an inner and an outer membrane as in A. holocarpa, but broadly turbinate 
or almost hemispherical with a much depressed or flattened summit bordered by 
