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01. CHENOPODIACEjE. 
[Koch ia . 
Leaves minute, distant. Branches spinescent. Perianth of 
K. villosa 8. A', aphylla. 
Fruiting perianth very flat at the top, surrounded by an annular more or 
less rigid horizontal border or thick wing, quite entire or regularly 
toothed. 
Annular border of the perianth 5-lobed, yellowish 9. K. diclioptera. 
Annular border 5-angled, tube vertically 5-winged 10. K. bracliyptera. 
Annular border with 10 to 12 radiating points, tube smooth . . . .11. A', stelligera. 
1. K. lanosa (woolly), Lindl. in. Mitch. Trop. Austr. 88; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. v. 184. An erect or spreading undershrub or low shrub, the branches 
and foliage silky-woolly. Leaves sessile, linear, mostly acute, thick and 
soft, from under Jin. to nearly Jin. long, flowers solitary in the axils. Fruiting 
perianth more or less woolly all over, depressed and about 1 line diameter within 
the wings, the lobes obtuse and closed over the fruit, the 5 dorsal wings thin and 
membranous, all distinct but not stipitate, or more or less connate, spreading to 
from 4 to 6 lines diameter, with 5 linear acute appendages, alternating wdth the 
horizontal wings, erect on their upper side and varying from J to 1J line in 
length. Styles 3 or rarely 2. — Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 461 ; F. v. M. Ic. Sal. 
PI. 46. 
Hab.: Narran River, Mitchell ; and other inland localities. 
2. K. triptera (3-winged), Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 185. A low but stout 
diffuse or spreading shrub or undershrub, the foliage and often the branches 
also quite glabrous and somewhat glaucous. Leaves rather crowded, linear, 
semiterete, often acute, rather thick, J to above Jin. long. Flowers solitary 
in the axils. Fruiting perianth with a broadly turbinate tube, above 1 line 
long below the horizontal wings, wdth 3 or rarely 4 very prominent vertical 
wings, and more than half of it occupied by a thick solid base below the 
fruit, the upper part of the perianth within the wings flat and closing over 
the fruit as in most Kochias, the horizontal wings united in a single rigidly 
membranous ring expanding to 4 or 5 lines or even Jin. diameter and quite 
concealing the vertical wings. Styles usually 3. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 50. 
Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. M. 
3. K. brevifolia (leaves short), B. Br. Prod. 409 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 
185. A much-branched rather slender shrub, the branches and foliage 
pubescent or tomentose with short woolly hairs or the leaves glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, sessile, linear or oblong, obtuse, thick and almost terete or 
somew'hat flattened, about 1 line or rarely nearly 2 lines long. Flowers small 
and solitary in the axils. Fruiting perianth much depressed, glabrous or 
slightly pubescent, the tube hemispherical, the upper portion scarcely 1 line 
diameter within the wings, with 5 equal broad obtuse lobes horizontally closed 
over the fruit but rather thick and almost bullate, forming 5 distinct promin- 
ences, the perianth bordered by 5 horizontal membranous veined wings, forming 
a complete circle of about 3 lines diameter but not united as in all the following 
species. Styles usually 2, rather short, united at the base. — Moq. in DC. Prod, 
xiii. ii. 131; F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 43; Salsola bracliyphijlla, Spreng. Syst. i. 
924 ; Kochia thymifolia, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 56, Moq. l.c. 461. 
Hab.: Darling Downs, Lau ; Annadilla, W. Burton ; St. George, J. lVedd ; and many more 
inland localities. 
4. K. spongiocarpa (fruit spongy), F. v. M., Viet. Xat. iii. 92. Plant 
erect, branches whitish velvet-downy. Leaves J to Jin. long, semi-cylindric- 
linear, rather long, somewhat pointed, glabrous; style enclosed; stigmas 
generally 2, sometimes bifid ; fruit-bearing calyx nearly Jin. wide, pale-brow 4 * * 7 n, 
