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Cl. CHENOPODIACEiE. 
[Sclerohnia. 
opposite spines divergent, nearly equal, 1 to 2 lines long. — F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 
HO ; Anisacantlia lanicuspis, F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 170 ; Kentropsis eriacantha , 
F. v. M. l.c. 110. 
llab.: Stanthorpe and to the border of N.S.W., and other inland localities. 
8. S. bicornis (2-horned), Lindl. in Mitch. Three F.xped. ii. 47 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. v. 195. A stout shrub, with divaricate rather thick branches, clothed with 
a short but soft cottony wool. Leaves very narrow-linear, acute, semiterete, often 
above lin. long, tomentose when young, becoming glabrous when full grown. 
Flowers solitary in the axils, the perianth H line long at the time of flowering. 
Fruiting perianth 2 to 3 lines diameter within the dense white cottony wool which 
covers it and almost doubles its size, very hard, nearly globular but slightly com- 
pressed, with 2 rigid divaricate dorsal spines, varying in length from J to J-in. or 
sometimes nearly fin. Seed horizontal, with a long ascending rostellum. — Moq. 
in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 123; F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 79; Kentrop&is lanata, Moq. 
Chenop. Enum. 83, and in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 138 ; Anisacantlia bicornis, F. v. M. 
Fragm. vii. 14. 
Hab.: Cumwillinghie, Bowen Downs and many other inland localities. 
4. S. biflora (2-flowered), B. Br. Prod. 410 ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 196. A 
procumbent or spreading branching shrub, clothed with a short close cottony 
wool, rather looser and more silky on the foliage of luxuriant shoots. Leaves 
sessile, narrow-linear, acute or obtuse, very soft f to I in. long. Flowers 2 or 
rarely 3 together in the axils, connate at the base and divaricate at a very early 
stage. Perianth at the time of flowering about f line long and broad, deeply 
divided into 5 lobes indexed at the end, densely enveloped in cottony wool. 
Styles 2, connate at the base. Fruiting perianths horizontally diverging from 
an l continuous with a common very broad hollow base or peduncle of about 1 
line, the perianths themselves about H line long, very hard and thick at the base, 
the orifice nearly closed by the indexed thinner lobes without any or sometimes 
with 1 or two dorsal minute tubercles or short spines. Pericarp depressed. Seed 
horizontal or somewhat oblique with an ascending rostellum. Embryo annular 
with an ascending or erect radicle.— Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 123; F. v. M. Ic. 
Sal. PI. 61 ; Dissocarpus bidorus, F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vic-t. ii. 75. 
llab.: On many of the inland Downs. 
5. S. paradoxa (paradoxical), It. Ur. Prod. 410; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 196. 
A decumbent much-branched undershrub, rarely exceeding 1ft., densely clothed 
with a loose cottony wool. Leaves sessile, narrow-linear, obtuse, soft and woolly 
or rarely becoming glabrous with age, from under f to nearly iin. long. Flowers 
in dense axillary clusters, the perianths small, deeply lobed. Styles 2, connate 
to the middle. Fruiting perianths 10 to 20 together, very hard at the base, 
connate into a globular cottony or woolly mass of 5 or 6 lines diameter, each 
perianth with 1 or 2 small dorsal spines shortly protruding from or almost 
concealed in the wool. Seed nearly globular with a short ascending rostellum ; 
emb vo forming a complete circle with the radicle turned upwards over the cotyle- 
don;! r end. — Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 123 ; F. v. M. Ic. Sal. PI. 62. 
IL.b.: Inland localities. 
9. ANISACANTHA, R. P,r. 
(Referring to the unequal spines of the perianth). 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth urceolate or ovoid, hard when in fruit, 
obliquely attached at the base, with 4 or 5 short membranous lobes and 3 to 5 
dorsal divergent unequal spines, 1 usually much smaller than the others or 
reduced to a tubercle. Stamens 5 or fewer. Styles 2 or 3, connate at the base 
