Contributiones Florae Australiensis. VII. 175 
outermost are almost leaf-like, have a filiform scarious tip, and are 
covered on both sides with long, soft white hairs. The other bracts of 
the general involucre have a leaf-like centre with scarious margins, a 
bunch of hairs each side, and conspicuous, scarious, not radiating tips. 
The receptacle is apparently branched. There are 3—4 partial heads in 
each compound head, and each is very distinct and very slightly flat- 
tened, being almost round in outline. There are 20-30 bracts round 
each partial head, all of which have radiating tips and are exactly 
similar to the inner bracts of the general involucre. The more centrai 
bracts of the partial heads have thin scarious tips incurving over the 
top of each partial head. Inside the innermost bract is a small cavity 
in which are situated 3—8 florets, with a quantity of upright soft, white 
woolly hairs between them. Each flower appears to be hermaphrodite, 
but the achene is very deciduous in the dried specimens. The achene 
is very small, obtuse at the tip, and is slightly hairy. The pappus con- 
sists of a varying number of long, plumose, soft, woolly white strands. 
which may or may not be very slightly united at the base to form an 
imperfect ring. The corolla is pale yellow, and 5-toothed; the floret is 
thickened at the base. The anthers are united, and have short, fine 
tails. The style is divided into two branches, which are spreading and 
are not thickened at their bases. — West-Australia: Watheroo Rabbit 
Fence, M. Koch, Dec., 1906, no. 1544. — A specimen from the Plantae 
Preissianae of Lehmann (vol. I, p. 490, no. 71) is allied in some respects 
to this species, but being without fully developed flowers, cannot be 
exactly placed. Lehmann remarks: — „Plantae quoad genus omnino 
dubia; fortasse ad Angiantheas referenda“, but as far as can be deter- 
mined from the heads, bracts and immature pappus, it more closely 
resembles Calocephalus. It differs from the present plant in the indu- 
mentum, shape and position of leaves, shape and number of bracts, etc. 
— Calocephalus Skeatsiana differs widely in external appearance from all 
other species of Calocephalus, but nevertheless in the involucre, bracts, 
partial heads, pappus, etc., comes within the range of this genus, and 
older specimens will probably approach Calocephalus more closely in ex- 
ternal appearance. It has been named Eriochlamys Knappi F. v. M., in 
W.-Australia, but is quite different to that species externally ,and in the 
heads and involucre, though alike in the florets and in the presence of 
à pappus. 
43. Calocephalus Knappii (F. M.), Ewart and White, l. c., p. 319, 
pl LVII, fig. 1, 2—9. Eriochlamys Knappii F. v. M. (Compositae.) — 
Calocephalus Knappii is known from the following localities: Finke R.. 
South Australia, Rev. H. Kempe, Dec. 1819, 1880 and 1882. Be- 
tween Gascoyne and Fortescue Rivers, H. S. King, 1885. 
44. Halgania tomentosa (R. Helms M. S.) Ewart and White, l c. 
P. 321, pl. LIX, fig. 1—3. — Victoria: West of Red Kangaroo Hill, R. 
Helms, November, 1891. — A somewhat woody herb 5—10 inches high 
in the Specimens examined. Stems wiry, densely beset with rather short, 
White, felt-like hairs. Leaves rather thick in texture, 2—5 lines long. 
