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et basin angustatis, imvolueri squamis exterioribus lanceolatis 
acutis ciliatis, interioribus glabris lamina lineari-oblonga rosea 
longe radiantibus, receptaculo hemisphewrico, fforibus exterioribus 
ertilibus, interioribus sterilibus, pappo horum serrato-plumoso, 
illorum abbreviato v. nullo, acheniis fertilibus subpapillosis apice 
attenuatis. 
In Australia centrali ad flumen Neales. J. Maed. Stuart. 
Herba annua, erecta, spitham:a v. paulo altior. Radix simplex, 
cylindrica, flexuosa, descendens. Caules pauci v. solitarii e radice, 
simplices v. in paueos ramos soluti. Folia sparsa, inferiora 13—3" 
longa, superiora 1—13" metientia. Involueri squamz exteriores 
14-3" longz, scariosz, infra medium costa virente percurse, sursum 
fuscescentes. Stipes squamarum intimarum circiter 3" longus, 
fere 2" latus, seariosus ; lamina semuncialis, petaloidea, obtusius- 
cula. Flores omnes hermaphroditi. Corolle circiter 2" longs, 
lutez, 5-dentate, sursum gradatim ampliate. Stylus florum cen- 
tralium indivisus, marginalium bifidus. Achenia sterilia pertenuia, 
glabra; fertilia circiter 11" longa, nondum statu maturo visa. 
Pappus albus, in achenio fertili corollam paulo superans, e setis 
numerosis subplumosis constans. 
Speciem decoram signavi nomine clar. Samuelis Davenport, 
Senatus Adelaidensis membri, sub cujus benigno auxilio itinera 
botanica ampliora per terram australem incepi. 
GOODENIACE X. 
Leschenaultia divaricata. 
Glabra, ramis sulcato-striatis, paniculis amplis repetito-dicho- 
tomis racemosisque, ramulis divergentibus, pedicellis brevissimis, 
seminibus majusculis. 
In vieinia rivi Cooper's Creek. Wheeler. 
Pars superior sesquipedalis ramosissima aphylla tantum visa. 
Ramuli ad basin bractea minuta deltoideo- v. subulato-semilaneeo- 
lata suffulti. Flores ignoti. Capsul:w alares et laterales, unciales 
v. breviores, pleio- v. oligospermw. | Semina 2-23" longa. 
Prima congenerum in parte orientali Australie continentalis 
detecta. 
Scevola patens. 
(Sect. Xerocarpaa.) 
Elatior, ramulis striato-suleatis aphyllis, pedunculis elongatis 
patentissimis ad basin bractea parva lineari-semilanceolata reeurva 
puberula ciliolata suffultis 1—3-floris apice bracteolas duas semi- 
lanceolato-subulatas breves gerentibus, pedicellis flore brevioribus, 
ealyeis glanduloso-puberuli laciniis semilanceolatis tubo breviori- 
bus, corolle extus tenuiter velutinz intus barbatw Jaciniis lanceo- 
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