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CL CHENOPODIACEiE. 
[Kochia. 
9. X. dichoptera (2-winged), F. r. M. Fragm. viii. 37 and 163. Erect, 
the branches hoary-tomentose. Leaves scattered, about lin. long, narrow- 
linear, silky-pubescent. Flowers digynous. Fruit wings yellowish, membranous, 
the horizontal wing almost 1 line broad, quinque-erenate or entire, connate 
with the longitudinal wing. Fruit slightly 3-ribbed, silky-hairy. Seed depressed, 
1 line broad, bright-brown. 
Hab.: Barcoo and Bowen Downs, F. r. Mueller. 
10. X. brachyptera (wings short), F. v. M. 2nd. Gen. Rep. 15 ; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. v. 189. A prostrate undershrub, spreading to 1ft. or more, with shortly 
ascending branches, clothed as well as the foliage with long soft spreading hairs, 
not forming the cottony wool of most species. Leaves alternate, linear, sessile, 
f to |in. long, flat and thinner than in most species. Flowers small, solitary in 
the axils, the perianth ovoid with 5 short erect obtuse membranous lobes. 
Stamens 5. Styles 2, connate at the base. Fruiting perianth about 1^ line 
diameter including the wings, the tube below the horizontal wing hemispherical, 
shortly hollowed at the base, with 5 vertical wings adnate to the horizontal one 
and tapering to the base, the summit very flat, bordered by an exceedingly 
narrow rather thick horizontal 5-angled wing, the angles very acute, being the 
small points of the vertical wings. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 59 ; Sclerochlamys 
brachyptera, F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vic. ii. 76 ; Echinopsilon brachypterus, 
F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 13. 
Hab.: Towards Cooper’s Creek. 
11. X. stelligera (starry), F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 13 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 189. 
A diffuse or procumbent undershrub spreading to 1ft. or more, with numerous 
rather slender ascending branches not above 6in. high, clothed as well as the 
young foliage with a white cottony wool wearing off from the older leaves. 
Leaves alternate, sessile, narrow-linear, erect or spreading, very soft, 1 to 3 lines 
long. Flowers small, solitary in the axils, but often crowded in woolly leafy 
tufts at the ends of the branches, the perianth nearly globular, woolly outside, 
with short lobes about £ line long. Stamens included. Styles 2, rather long, 
scarcely united at the base. Fruiting perianth nearly 1J line diameter, of a 
thick hard consistence, the teeth hemispherical, quite smooth, without vertical 
wings, the basal hollow small, the summit very flat, bordered by a very narrow 
rather rigid horizontal wing, with 10 to 12 short rigid, equally radiating teeth or 
points . — Maireana stelligera, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 139 ; Echinopsilon stelligerus, 
F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 13. 
Hab.: Maranoa, llev. B. Scortechini. 
6. ENCHYL/ENA, E. Br. 
(Referring to the succulent calyx.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth urceolate, at length depressed-globular, 
succulent or coriacious, with 5 short broad lobes or teeth connivent and closing 
over the fruit without any dorsal wings or appendages. Stamens 5 or fewer. 
Ovary depressed globular. 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 very scanty albumen. — Undershrubs or shrubs. 
Leaves linear-terete or linear-lanceolate, entire. Flowers solitary in the axils 
and sessile, without any or with one or two minute bracts. 
The genus is limited to Australia. It only differs from Kochia in the fruiting perianth of a 
thicker consistence and often succulent, without any dorsal wings or appendages. — Bentli. 
Leaves 1 to 2 lines long. Flowers numerous, mostly crowded in terminal 
leafy spikes. Perianth not above 1 line diameter 1. F.. microphylla 
