174 Altred J. Ewart. 
XXXVI, Alfred J. Ewart, ContributionesFlorae Australiensis VII. 
(Ex: Proc. R. Soc. Victoria, N. S., XXII, pt. 2 [1910], pp. 315—329, 
pl. LVI—LX.) 
41. Angianthus axiliflorus (W. V. Fitzgerald, MS. ined.) Ewart and 
White, l. c., p. 315, pl. LVI. (Compositae) — Rather rigid herbs 3—4 
inches in height. There is one woody mainstalk which gives off short 
lateral branches from the axils of the alternate leaves. Leaves very 
pale green, only very few on the main stem, but crowded an tuft-like 
on the short lateral branches; 3—5 lines long, sessile, slightly ens- 
heathing at the base, linear-lanceolate, glabrous and somewhat rigid and 
pointed. — Inflorescence of lateral or terminal compound heads. Each 
compound head is surrounded by a number of leaf-like glabrous bracts, 
which form a general involucre. There are 5—8 partial heads in each 
compound head, and the whole is 3 to 6 mm in diameter. — Each par- 
tial head is 1 or 2 flowered, and is surrounded by 6 scarious and quite 
glabrous bracts, of which the two outermost are small, one extremely 
so, being only just visible to the naked eye. Of the 4'larger sur- 
rounding bracts the 2 lateral ones are somewhat conduplicate, and the 
2 inner are slightly concave. The partial heads are very shortly stalked. 
— The achene is short, nearly as broad as long, with no sign of a 
break, flattened and covered with fairly long white hairs. — A pappus 
is present in the form of a ring of short white bristles surrounding the 
base of the corolla tube. Base of the floret slightly thickened, corolla 
5-toothed, pale yellow in colour. Anthers finely tailed at the base, style 
branches not thickened, not spreading. — West-Australia: Cowcowing, 
Max Koch, Oct., 1904, no. 1196. — This species was received, marked W. V. 
Fitzgerald inedit, from both the collector and the Sydney Herbarium. It 
appears to be à valid new species, but no published description has 
hitherto been issued. The affinities of the plant are somewhat difficult 
to define, but in the. bracts of its partial heads, and in the pappus, it 
comes nearest to A. brachypappus F. v. M., and is probably best placed 
between that species and A. pleuropappus, though differing widely from 
both plants in its external habit and glabrous character. 
42. Calocephalus Skeatsiana Ewart and White, l. c., p. 317, pl. LVII. 
LVIII, fig. 5—6. (Compositae.) — A small, somewhat woody plant about 
4-7 inches in height, branching freely from the base. All the stems, 
especially when young, are more orless covered with white hairs. The 
leaves are !/,—!/, an inch long, with short petioles and densely covered 
on both surfaces with soft, woolly, white hairs, linear-lanceolate, flat, 
slightly pointed, alternate, a few opposite. Flower heads compound on 
short axillary branches springing from the main branches or from the 
secondary ones. The diameter of each compound head almost spherical, 
3—4 mm diameter, but possibly larger when fully ripe. The peduncles 
and outer bracts of the involucre are densely covered with white hairs. 
There are only a few bracts in the general involucre; 2 or 3 of the 
