Clienolea .] 
CL CHENOPODIACE/E. 
1251 
1. C. sclerolaenoides (Sclerolaena-like), F. r. M. ; Benth. FI. Aastr. v. 192. 
A small undershrub, much branched at the base, usually under 6in. high, densely 
clothed with a soft rather loose woolly tomentum. Leaves sessile, linear, obtuse, 
soft, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. Flowers solitary in the axils, densely involved 
in woolly hairs forming when in fruit a globular mass of 2 to 3 lines diameter. 
Perianth concealed in the wool, with 5 short flat lobes closing over the fruit, 5 
dorsal erect membranous bifid appendages, and lower down 5 linear sometimes 
pungent and spine-like appendages radiating from near the base, all usually 
concealed under the wool or points of the spines slightly protruding. Styles 2, 
united at the base. Seed horizontal ; embryo flat, annular, the radicle either 
not at all or only very slightly rising above the cotyledonar end. — F. v. M. Ic. 
Sal. 301, PI. 82; Eriochiton sclerolcenoides, F. v. M. Second Rep. 15; F.chinop- 
silon sclcrolanoides , F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Viet. ii. 75. 
Hah.: Southern localities. 
5. KOCHIA, Schrad. 
(After Dr. W. D. J. Koch). 
(Maireana, Moq., Sclerochlamys, F. v. M.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Perianth at first nearly globular, at 
length depressed turbinate or pyramidal, not succulent, with 5 rarely 4 short 
broad lobes connivent and closing over the fruit, imbricate in the bud and 3 
outer ones often rather larger than the 2 inner ones, bearing on their backs 
horizontal wings either distinct or united in a single annular wing surrounding 
the perianth. Stamens usually 5 or fewer by abortion. Styles 2 or 3, shortly 
connate at the base. Fruit depressed-globular, enclosed in the perianth ; pericarp 
membranous. Seed more or less flattened, horizontal ; testa membranous ; 
embryo horseshoe-shaped or almost annular, enclosing a scanty albumen. — Under- 
shrubs or shrubs, usually procumbent or spreading. Leaves linear or rarely 
oblong, usually small thick and often semiterete. Flowers solitary or very rarely 
2 together in the axils, sessile, with very minute or without any bracts, the 
perianth very small at the time of flowering with the stamens and styles shortly 
exserted, but in most species there appear to be many female flowers without any 
perfect stamens. Fruiting perianth usually described as variously coloured red, 
from a pale pink to a rich crimson, but no colour remains in the dried specimens. 
The genus is limited to the extratropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, the 
Australian species being apparently all endemic. 
Fruiting perianth with an appendage to each sinus, besides the horizontal 
wings. Leaves softly silky. 
Sinus-appendages linear, acute, erect above the horizontal wings which 
are more or less united in a ring 1 . K. lanosa. 
Fruiting perianth without sinus-appendages, but with 3 rarely 4 longi- 
tudinal wings on the tube below the horizontal ones which are united in 
a ring 2. A', triptera. 
Fruiting perianth without any appendages besides the horizontal wings 
which are membranous and entire or irregularly denticulate. 
Horizontal wings all distinct, all 5 equal. Leaves usually narrow, 1 
to 2 lines long 3. A', brevifolia. 
Horizontal leaves more or less perfectly united in a ring. 
Fruit nearly Jin. wide and very spongy 4. A', spongiocarpa. 
Perianth flat within the wings or nearly so. 
Leaves mostly J to Jin. long, linear or terete, tomentose or nearly 
glabrous (sometimes small and slender), spreading. Perianth 
glabrous or tomentose 5. K. villosa. 
Leaves oblong or oblanceolate, flat, J to Jin. long. Perianth of 
K. villosa 6. A', planifolia. 
Leaves oblong-clavate, almost terete, densely cottony, not exceeding 
Jin. Perianth of A', villosa . . . , 7- K- sedifolia, 
