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CL CHENOPODIACE.®. 
[Enchylana. 
angles or lobes, or one of the outer ones irregular, 2 very rarely 3 inner ones flat 
and triangular with a thickened transverse line at the base outside. Styles 2 
(or rarely 3 ?). Fruit and seed of F. tomentosa. 
Hab.: Armadilla, If". Barton ; and other southern inland localities. 
This species connects in some measure Enchylana with Kochia, tor the transverse thickening 
of the perianth-lobes may be regarded as an incipient wing. The names both of E. rillosa and 
tomentosa are unfortunately selected, as both are sometimes almost if not quite 
glabrous. — Benth. 
7. BABBAGIA, F. v. M. 
(After H. Babbage.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth urceolate, hard when in fruit, with 4 
(or 5 ?) small membranous lobes, and 2 or 3 dorsal membranous stipitate wings 
more or less vertical. Stamens 4 (or 5 ?). Styles 2, connate at the base. Fruit 
enclosed in the perianth. Pericarp membranous. Seed horizontal ; testa 
membranous ; embryo nearly annular, enclosing a mealy albumen, the radicle 
slightly ascending above the cotyledonar end. — Diffuse glabrous undershrubs or 
shrubs. Leaves linear, alternate. Flowers solitary in the axils, sessile, without 
bracts. 
The genus is limited to Australia. 
Leaves linear or oblanceolate. Fruit appendages, wings semi circular 
contracted into a thick base 1. B. dipterocarpa. 
Leaves almost semi-cylindric. Fruit appendages, not membranous, 
rhomboid or obovate-cunate 2. B. scleroptera. 
Leaves oblong, semi-cylindric. Fruit appendages, wings terminal stipitate 3. B. acroptera. 
1. B. dipterocarpa (fruit 2-winged), F. v. M. Hep. Babb. F.sped. 21 ; Benth. 
FL Austr. v. 192. A small much-branched diffuse undershrub or spreading 
shrub, glabrous except sometimes a slight wool in the axils of the leaves, and 
more or less glaucous. Leaves linear or oblanceolate, thick or semi terete, under 
3 lines long, often crowded on the young branches. Fruiting perianth rather 
more than 1 line long, the hollow base about \ line long and as much diameter, 
closed under the fruit, the fruit-bearing part depressed-globular, about f line 
diameter, the broad membranous semicircular wings expanding to about 3 lines 
diameter, each wing contracted into a thick base- and placed obliquely or verti- 
cally with reference to the perianth, apparently by the torsion of the base. Fruit 
much depressed. Seeds very flat. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1078. 
Hab.: South-western inland localities towards Cooper’s Creek. 
2. B. scleroptera (fruit-wings hard), F. v. M. in Son. Se. Bee. Xor. 1885 
Leaves short, almost semi-cylindrical ; axils not distinctly bearded ; the tube 
of the fruit-calyx turgid, downward smooth, deeply excavated at the base inside, 
streaked towards the summit, terminated by generally 5 but sometimes fewer 
rhomboid or obovate-cuneate not membranous appendages. Seed lodged above 
the middle of the calyx-tube. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 38. 
Hab.: Near the Warrego. — Betelie. 
This species differs in that its appendages do not reach to the base of the calyx- 
tube and, are not, or only slightly expanded into a tender membrane. Indeed, it 
is near to B. acroptera, from which it is distinct in its fruit-calyx being more turgid 
and not oblique at the base, and producing an augmented number of appendages devoid of 
any ample terminating membrane.— F. v. ilL, l.c. 
3. B. acroptera (winged at top), F. r. M. et late, Trans. Boy. Soc. of Austr. 
vi. 108, 1883. Leaves oblong, semi-cylindrical ; fruit-calyx above the tubular 
base turgid, thence produced into two oblique-roundish or broad-cuneate com- 
pletely terminal and conspicuously stipitated membranous appendages. — F. v. 
M. Ic. Sal. PI. 39. 
Hab.: Queensland. F. v. Mueller. — Third Suppl. Cens. Austr. PI. 
The following, according to Baron Mueller, are the chief characteristics which distinguish 
this plant from B. dipterocarpa. The narrow hollow base of aged calyx-tube, the more 
stipitate not renifonn appendages, one of the two being more developed than the other. 
