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the back near their a]^ices, all ovate, tlie lateral lobes or segments irregular, 
the uppermost with a broad and prominent spur below the anther, absent in 
the others; anthers 2-ceIIed, broadly ovate. Hypogynoiis gland adnate to 
the sti])es, and forming a eoncavo boss at the upper side of its base; stipes 
of the ovary thick, glabrous, almost liorizontal and flattened. Ovary silky- 
villous, 2-ovidate: style straight, thick, the stigmatic disc broad and orbicular, 
slightly lateral, witli a pi'ominent conical point in the centre. Follicle erect, 
stipitate, ol)lanceolate in outline or almost narrow-elliptical, beaked, opening 
longitudinally along the upper margin, 2-3-ribbed on each side, after dehiscing 
becoming bi'oadly cymhiform and incurved, quite glabrous. 
Seed solitary, seceding* from the apex of the follicle, together with two 
envelo])es* (the endocaiq)), the outer black and membranous, free along the 
outer margin, the inner enclosing' the seed and indehiscent, somewhat spongy 
in texture; seed ovate, lenticular, with a thin brown testa, dark towards the 
base, pale upwards, the funicle short and erect. 
On the Moore Ri^'er and the great sandplain north of Diamond Spring, 
Drmnmond vi. 11)0. Kear the ^‘Diamond of the Desert^^ Spring, Gardner^ 
11th February, 1940; gravelly sandheaths. Mount Lesiuuxr, Gardner^ 13th 
February, 1940. 
I am indebt(‘d to Mr. F. Grigson of Cockleshell Gully, who assisted me 
in locating this s])ecies, which is nowhere common. It has, as Drummond 
remarked, the habit of a Persoonia, and its flowers, although rather large, 
are inconspicuous by reason of their colour. The follicles however are con- 
spicuous, esiUH'ially in the year after seeding, when they open out almost fiat. 
CHRNOPODTACF^. 
Kochia thesioides C. A. Gardn. sp. nov. 
Frutex vel suffrutex 50 cm. altus, glaber, axillae foliorum exceptfu ramis 
erectis, tenuibus: folds lineari-lanceolatis, alternis, sparsis, carnosis, breviter 
petiolatis, j^lanis, acuminatis, lanntis douse in axillis foliorum; perianthio 
fruclifero sessili, glabi’o, fere sidiaerico, a})icc segmentis 5 subvcrtiealibus 
connatis, segmentorum marginibus lanoso-ciliatis, porianthii tubo hemi- 
sphaerico, alis ad a]>icem hoilzontalibus vel reflcxis in membrana disciformem 
amplam integram coalitis siccando nigresccnte. 
Planta 50 cm. alta; folia usque 1.5 cm. louga; periantliium fruetiferum 
5.5 mm. diam., 4.5 mm. loiigum. 
Ilab. in distr. Austin inter vicos Meekatharra et Wiluna, in campis lutosis 
iiitrosis, fruet. m. July, etiam prope Leonora, fruct. m. Septem. Gardner. 
Affinity to K. pyrajuidaia differing in the slender erect habit, in the total 
absence of spinescent branchlets, in being almost entirely glabrous, with acute 
leaves and .smalleT' fruits with an undulate more or less reflexed wing. 
