12. C. atriplicinum, F. Muell . Fragm. vii. 11.

Apparently perennial, branching at the base only, with numerous ascending "^or erect stems under 1 ft. and often under 6 in,, flowering from near the base, of a pale green and slightly glandular-pubescent, Lower leaves on long slender petioles, from lanceolate to broadly hastate, otherwise entire, rather thick, ¾ to 1 in, long, the upper ones smaller lanceolate and entire, but all petiolate. Flowers in dense sessile axillary clusters shorter than the petioles. Perianth-segments 4 or 5, erect, lanceolate, rather above 1 line long, the points somewhat spreading, the keel much thickened and irregularly angular at the base. Stamen 1. Seed erect, rugose, enclosed in the perianth.-

Blitum atriplicinum, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 133, and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 204.

N. S. Wales. Darling desert, Victorian Expedition.

Victoria. Wimmera, Dallachy.

S. Australia. Flinders Range, F. Mueller.