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Tas. 5342. 
WAITZIA TENELLA. 
Slender-stemmed Weaitzia. 
Nat. Ord. Composit#.—SyYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, homogamum. Receptaculum epaleaceum, 
planum vel demum convexiusculum, alveolatum. Jnvolucri multiserialis sguame 
imbricate exsuccee, omnes vel saltem intermedi et inferiores stipitate. et 
appendicula petaloidea radiante colorata aucte, discum superantes. Corolle 
hermaphrodite, tubulose, filiformes, graciles, pappum equantes, apice 5-dentate. 
Anthere basi attenuate, ecaudate. Sfyli rami apice capitellati. Achenia com- 
pressa, ovata, apice in rostrum producta. Pappi uniserialis sete 10-12, ima 
basi concretze et subplumosee, supra medium serrato-scabre.—Herbe Nove 
Hollandie ; caulibus corymbiferis, rarissime monocephalis, a basi ad apicem folia- 
tis ; capitulis hemisphericis ; involucri sguamis exsuccis, coloratis, discum superan- 
tibus, Helychrysi facie. Steetz. 
Wairtzea ‘Steetziana; caule erecto stricto versus apicem laxe corymbosum 
lanato, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, involucri squamis omnibus abbreviatis 
diseum vix superantibus ovatis acutis aureo-nitentibus, stipitibus in- 
teriorum planis laxe lanatis, floribus numerosissimis, acheniis minimis pa- 
pillosis in rostrum glabrum elongatum ipsis triplo longius attenuatis, pappo 
aureo. Steetz. 
Wairzia Steetziana. Lehm. Plant. Preiss. v. 1.-p. 454. 
Introduced by Mr. Thomson, of Ipswich, from Swan River Set- 
tlement, West Australia, to the gardens of this country, where it 
is likely to prove a great ornament to our flower-gardens. The 
flower-heads are. very pretty and drooping, of a lively and 
bright-yellow colour, and of that dry kind known by the name 
of “everlasting flowers,” retaining their beauty a long time 
after being gathered; hence well suited to the decoration of the 
drawing-room, even in the depth of winter. 
The genus was constituted by Wendland in 1810, and is the 
pa as Viraya, Gaudich., Leptorhynchos, Benth., and Morna, 
indl. 
Figs. 1 and 2. Involucral scales. 3. Floret. 4. A seta from the pappus. 
5. Summit of the style :—magnified. 
OCTOBER IsT, 1862. 
