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Atriplex spoyigiosum^ Fei’d. MeuUer 1. c. 74. 
Lake Gregory, 
Atriplex incrassatum. (Sect. Obione.) 
Shrubby ; leaves grey, lepidote, ovate- 
hastate, nearly sessile, entire or indistinctly 
toothed; female flowers glomerate ;fruiU 
hearing calgx enlarged^ orhicul ar-reni- 
form, ' entire, without appendages ; its 
upper portion eoriaccoTis, valvatc ; Us 
lower portion turgid, solid. 
Emu Springs. 
A seemingly dioecious plant; male flowers 
unknown*; fruity' broad; its base, although 
swelling is not of the spongj’^ texture 
which miaraeterises that of Atriplex infla- 
tum, spongiosum and holocarpum. 
Atriplex niimmularhim, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. 
Austr. p. 04. 
Elizabeth Creek. 
Atriplex pal udosum, R. Br. p. 406. 
Pernatt 3 \ I n various narts of South Aus- 
tralia ami Australia Felix. 
Atriplex renfonne. R. Brown prodr. 406. 
Beda. Eluwibeth Creek. From Spencer’s 
and St.Yincent's Gulf to the Murray and 
Barling. Leaves sometimes ovate. 
Atriplex i-eliif^nelluni. (Sect. Teutliopsis.) 
Monoecious; pale fnrfiiraeeous iomeniose ; 
leaves alternate, licrbaceous, rhomboid, 
nearty sessile, dentate-sinuous ; glome- 
rules axillary or in short terminal inter- 
riij)ted spikes; calyx rliom- 
heo-deltoid, herbaceous, fo'minating gra- 
dually in an entire acumen, with a few 
acute teeth below the middle, almost 
nerveless, scarcely appendicidate ; its 
valves connate towards the base; seeds 
brown ; radicle lateral. 
Stuart’s Creek. 
Resembling in leaves and in many other 
respects the following species : — 
Atriplex ro$eMm,\Ami^ sp. 1493 
V''ar. stipitatum; fruit small, tapering into 
a thick pedicel, whicli is long. 
Emu Springs. 
Atriplex Lindleyi, Moqnin in Cand. prodr. XIII, 
‘A 100. 
Elizabeth Creek. 
Anisaeantha fricuspis, Ferd. MueUer in Transact. 
Viet. Inst. I, 133. 
Elizabeth Creek, 
Sclerolwna 'paradoxa, R. Br. pr. p. 410. 
Stuart s Creek, Depot Creek ; also from 
Spencer’s Gulf and the Flinders Ranges 
to the Miirraj' and Bailing desert. 
Dissocarpus bijiorus, Ferd. Mueller iiiTransact. 
Phil. Inst. II, 75. 
8tony land betn een Stuart’s Creek and the 
Margareth Creek. 
JUnckylrena iomentosa, R. Br. pr. 408. 
Frequent in the barren interior. 
Osteocarpum sahuginosum. Ford. Mueller in 
Transact. Viet. Inst. II, 77. 
Elizabeth Creek. 
Sclerochlamys hraehyptcra, Ford. MueUer in 
Transact. Viet. Inst. II. 76. 
Lake Gregory, Areoona, AVeelpideroona. 
Kocliia ciliata. 
Steins adsceiideut ; branches weak, w'oolly, 
tomcnlose ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 
acute, rather flat, silky-tomeutose ; the 
lou or ones distant ; flowers axiUary, 
solitary, Moolly-villose; stigmas 2; calyx 
wingless, fringed with woolly-villose hair; 
its teeth deltoid ; fruit-hearing calyx fat- 
depressed, orbieulai*, without ribs. 
M onnomulla. Emu Springs, between 
Stuart’s Creek aixl ^largareth Creek. 
J.eaves 2-6'" long, 1'" and less broad. 
Flowers in the Wer part of the branches 
remote, in the upper part forming a leafy 
interrupted spike. Anthers oval, brown- 
red. Fruit calyx barely in diameter, 
somewhat crustaceous, not explete by the 
fulvous seeds, by which means an acute 
margin seems to encircle the fruit. 
Amongst Kochias, it shows the greatest 
affinity to K. lanosa; hut it exhibits like- 
wise a transit to the genus Sclerochlamys, 
from which cliiefly the want of idbs ex- 
panding into very small vertical wings 
distinguishes it. Thus, — *' natura non 
saltus faciente,” — these novel forms of 
Kochiea) are clearl}^ linked together. If 
the absence of the fruit-wings in K. ciliata 
is deemed a sufficient reason for the 
removal of tliis species to a separate 
genus, it might then be genericaUy 
designated ** Apteranthe.” 
Kochia erianiha. 
Branchlets velvety ; loaves alternate, grey- 
silky, crowded, trigonous, acute, some- 
what channelled, in age more flat ; flowers 
forming below tbe summits of the branches 
a leafy spike, digynous, as well as the 
fruits enveloped in a long dense white 
silky wool ; calyx-teeth semiovate or semi- 
lauceolate ; wings foUaceotis, semior- 
bicular, concealed by the villose indument. 
Elizabeth Creek, Emu Springs. 
Leaves 2-6" long, 1-1 1'" 'broad. Spikes 
1-ir long. 
The following species, to which Kochia 
eriantha ranks nearest, differs in long 
lineai’-subulate lobes of the calyx, in 
generalfy trigo nous flowers, in somewhat 
searious fruit-wings, which are more or 
less concrete and covered with short 
downs, and in less fleshy and more 
distant and tomentosc leaves, 
Kochia lanosa,Jjmd\ej in Mitchell’s Trop. Austr. 
p. 88. 
Lake Gre^^’, Margareth and Elizabeth 
Crc^.|r^\'ings concrete or disjoint. 
Kochia sedijoUa, Ford. MueUer in Transact. 
Viet. Inst. 1, 134. 
Stuart’s Creek, Maerty, Elizabeth Creek. 
Kochia tomentosa, Ferd. MxieUer eniim. of Gre- 
gor^^’s plants from Cooper’s Creek. 
Grey velvety toraentose; stems shrubby, 
erect, with numerous spi'cading branches ; 
leaves Hnear-semiterete, acute, often glab- 
rous, Bomtimes hirsute ; flowers generally 
solitary ; fruit-hearing calyx turbinate, 
smooth, surrounded by a glabrous scari- 
ous margin, formed by the concrescence of 
• the wings. 
Elizabeth Creek. Margareth Creek, and in 
many other desert localities within and 
beyond the tropics. 
Leaves most variable in size, 1-6'" long, 
styles 3 rarely 2. Fruitwings rarely free, 
forming a circular limb J-2V" broad 
around the calyx. 
In Mr. Babbage’s collection exists also an 
imperfect specimen of a Kochia, which 
possibly uniti's Ktjchia tomentosa with K. 
aphyUa, the latter being moreover known 
as a desert iuhabitant of the environs of 
Lake Torrens. Tliis specimen has a few^ 
leaves in long intervals, scattered along 
its branches, wliilst the latter become in 
part spinescent. If those plants, as it 
would appear, should prove varieties of 
the same species, then the name applied 
by R. Brown to a certain leafless more 
glabrous and pmigent state, and by my- 
self to a tomentose fom of it, can hardly 
be regarded tenable, and the appellation 
of the species miglit be altered to Kochia 
Browuii. 
