1250 
Cl. CHENOPOD1ACEJ3 . 
[Atriplex. 
au annular horizontal wing or acute angle, the very small central orifice closed 
by small entire or 3-toothed erect valves as in the allied species. Fruit the same, 
except that the radicle appears to be always inferior not superior.— F. v. M. Ic. 
Sal. PI. 19 ; A. Lindleyi, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 100 ; A. injlata , F. v. M. 
in Trans. Phil. Inst. Yict. ii. 75. 
Hab.: Burnett River, F. v. Mueller ; Suttor and Bogan Rivers, Bowman ; Curriwillinghie, 
Dalton; Barcoo, Dr. Wuth ; Lawn Hill, F. H. Haim. 
16. A. holocarpa (all fruit) F. v. M. Rep. Babb. E.rpcd. 19 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. v. 179. A perennial with a hard almost woody base and 
herbaceous diffuse or procumbent branching stems, attaining from Gin. 
to above 1ft., softly mealy-tomentose. Leaves on rather long petioles, 
obovate or rhomboidal, irregularly toothed, from under £in. to above lin. 
long. Flowers monoecious, all axillary, the males few in the upper axils 
surrounded by females, females only and usually few together in most axils, 
very small and globular at the time of flowering. Fruiting perianth obovoid- 
globular, scarcely compressed, not flattened at the top, 4 to 6 lines diameter, 
of a loosely fibrous and spongy consistence, with a thin membranous 
epidermis and a thin inner membrane scarcely distinguishable from the 
pericarp and sometimes (but not always) hardening over the seed as it ripens ; 
the summit of the perianth with a small central orifice closed by 2 erect ap- 
pressed, entire or 3-toothed valves, rarely above 4 line long. Seed with the 
superior radicle of the majority of those species in which it is enclosed in the 
perianth tube. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 
Hab.: Paroo, Bowen Downs and Cooper’s Creek, F. v. Mueller. 
17. A. spongiosa (spongy), F. v. M. in Trans. Yict. Inst. ii. 74; Benth. FI. 
Austr. v. 179. A small much-branched herb or undershrub, w r ith numerous 
ascending or erect stems, not above 6in. high, more or less mealy-white as well as 
the foliage or becoming glabrous when old. Leaves shortly petiolate, broadly 
ovate obovate or orbicular, entire or sinuate-tootbed, rather thick, J to Ain. long. 
Flowers monoecious and axillary as in A. holocarpa, but much smaller and fewer 
together, the females mostly solitary or only 2 in each axil. Fruiting perianth 
enlarged fibrous and spongy with a membranous epiderm and the inner membrane 
inseparable from the pericarp as in A. holocarpa, but much smaller, depressed, 
globular, not exceeding 2 lines diameter, the small orifice closed by 2 minute erect 
appressed triangular valves. Seed of A. holocarpa w T ith the radicle erect. — F. v. 
M. Ic. Sal. PI. 20. A. semibaccata, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 97, not of E. Br. 
Hab.: Bavcoo and other inland localities. 
4. CHEN OLE A, Thunb. 
(From chen, a goose, and leia, prey.) 
(Echinopsilon, Moq. Eriochiton, F. v. Muell.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Perianth depressed-globular, membra- 
nous with 5 (or 4?) inflexed lobes closing over the fruit, and 5 or fewer dorsal 
divergent spines or soft horn-like appendages, often unequal, sometimes very small 
or quite obsolete. Stamens 5. Styles 2 or 3, connate at the base. Fruit enclosed 
in the perianth, more or less depressed. Pericarp membranous. Seed horizontal 
or oblique ; embryo annular, the radicle often ascending over the cotyledonar end. 
— Diffuse or spreading undershrubs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, narrow, usually 
soft and silky-villous or woolly, rarely glabrous. Flowers sessile and solitary 
in the axils, eveloped in cottony wool or long hairs. 
The genus is spread over the temperate regions of the Old World, the Australian specie* 
apparently all endemic, one only being found in Queensland. 
