Contributiones Florae Australiensis. I. 408 
The slight resemblance to a young stage of Bartlettia (Senecionideae) 
is of no importance, since this plant has female ray florets and differs 
in the pappus and unstalked achenes. Among the Asterae-Solidaginae 
the genus shews a certain degree of relationship to Lessingia, but the 
florets are all alike, the outer oges not being more deeply slit on the 
outside. The general habits and leaves are like those of Achnophora 
tatei F. v. M., which would bring the plant between Calotis (Asterae- 
Asterinae) and Brachycome (Asterae-Bellidinae). The plant differs, however, 
in the pappus, stalked achenes, and absence of ray florets, and among 
the Asterae-Bellidinae only one species of Greenella has homogamous heads. 
The general characters agree best with the Asterae-Asterinae, although 
the genus shewn also approaches to the Solidagineae and Bellidinae 
sections, and also through the bracts to the Anthemideae. 
1. Bellida graminea A. J. Ewart, |. c., p. 35, pl. X, XI. 
A small tufted annual herb, from 6 to 18 cm high when in fruit, 
and with a short slender tapering tap root. Leaves radical in a grass- 
like tuft, unstalked, flat, linear, contracted to an obtuse tip, 2 to 7 cm 
long, about 1 mm broad, glabrous, or occasionall with a few small 
Scattered hairs, chiefly at the margins. All other subaeriel parts glabrous 
excepting the fruit. Flower heads conical with a rounded top, on sepa- 
rate stalks, the outer ones curved, longer than the leaves (6—18 cm), 
arising at the top of the root among the leaves. A single linear bract 
about 2 mm long with scarious edges is usually, but not always, present 
an inch or two below the head, but sometimes near the base and then 
easily overlooked. 
Inflorescence of 40 to 50 small yellow tubular hermaphrodite florets 
(no rays), surrounded by a double set of scarious bracts, the outer series 
smaller in 2 imbricate rows of 6 or 7 in each, the inner layer with 7 
or 8 in each row, and with broad overlapping scarious margins, and a 
central dark line usually projecting as a point at the tip. The young 
flower heads are about 1|, cm diameter, but enlarge to Ui or 2 em 
diameter in fruit, the bracts, especially of the inner set, doubling in size. 
Florets about !/, cm diameter, with a slender ovary but no stalk 
ànd no scales between. Corolla tubular, with 5 regular free points, and 
the appendices of the anthers projecting beyond them. The slender 
Style is bifid, with conical or truncate ends papillose on the outer side, 
the stigmatic lines on the edges of the bifid portion within the anther- 
tube. Pollen grains globular and minutely spiny. Fruits 1 cm long or 
more, the achene contracted to a short stalk at its base, which is hollow 
and has an oblique basal opening below one egde of the ee 
achenial part of the fruit. The sides of the achene are finely sculpture 
With transverse grooves, and bear a pair of small brown scales, whose 
Upper margins are drawn out into a fringe of stiff bristles ls to e 
long, themselves fringed with minute teeth, the upper two-thirds brig 
Pink, the basal third white. | 
Jibberding, West-Australia, 1905, M. Koch. = 
