Contributiones Florae Australiensis. II. 401 
at the base, the apex curved to a small, usually straight, white point, 
and sparsely covered with glandular spots. 
The flowers are practically sessile in terminal clusters of usually 
three or more. Calyx tube wrinkled but not prominently ridged (when 
dry), dark red, glandular, the five broad obtuse ciliate lobes with a light 
red border, and with pellucid spots. Corolla twice the length of the ` 
calyx, the lobes broad obtuse, pale brownish-yellow, and minutely fringed. 
Stamens ten, the anthers adherent to an enlarged glandular connective, 
alternating with ten staminodes, the whole uniting to form a single 
distinct tube within the corolla. Ovary of one loculus, with several 
ovules arising from an erect wavy basal placenta. Style distended belo 
the middle, stigma globular with a basal fringe of hairs. 
The plant is allied to C. ciliatum, but its pointed leaves, flowers in 
terminal clusters, larger and broader unribbed calyces, petals distinctly 
fringed, at once distinguish it. The latter features show a slight appro- 
ach to Verticordia, from which genus, however, it differs widely. 
Cowcowing, West-Australien, M. Koch, Sept. 1904. 
11. Helipterum Guilfoylei A. J. Ewart, 1. c., p. 82, pl. XII. (Compositae.) 
An annual prostate or ascending, rarely exceeding 4 to 5 cm in 
height, covered with long loosely woolly hairs, and with one or more 
stems branching to form clusters of small ovoid heads. Leaves sessile, 
narrow, linear, mostly obtusely pointed, and 4 to 5 mm long, channelled 
on the upper surface, alternate or opposite. Heads partly within the 
upper leaves, mostly 5 mm long by 8 broad, the outer bracts 2 mm, the 
inner 4 or 5, and with small yellow or brown laminas, the innermost 
smaller again without any lamina and very thin. All with various entire 
margins, and twenty or more in number. Flowers all tubular. and her- 
maphrodite, usually ten, the corolla, with five blunt points, the style 
swollen at the base, the pappus about the length of the corolla, of usu- 
ally 8 plumose scales flattened at their bases and united to form : 
. Sessile ring easily separated entire. Achenes 1,5 to 2 mm May an 
quite twice as long as broad, reddish-brown, glabrous, the outer mE 
becoming mucilaginous in water, but with a reticulate surface po ore 
swelling. Style bifurcate with papillose Wée it and the stamens barely 
projecting beyond the throat of the corolla. | 
The “plant has a close external resemblance to H. exiguum y NW = 
but appears to be allied to H. pygmaeum, Benth., and of X v 
cribed species, H. verecundum (S. Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. , 
. ^ . acchaeus (S. 
1899, p. 200) is distinguished by iw minute size, preces nearly M 
j us, 8 
Moore, Journ. of Bot., 1897, p. 166), by its papp 1 scales. The latter 
broad as long, and green tips to the involucra 
Species also has presumably not the mucilaginous seed = nn 
style of H. Guilfoylei. Owing to the former fact the w os SE, 
ripe achenes adheres and comes out in one mass, usually dies 
florets and pappus attached, two or three of the florets being : 
sterile. ; 
