163 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



115. Senecio va^us, F. Muell. ; glabrous; stem suffruticose, with 

 spreading branches ; inferior leaves large, pinnatisected, with generally 

 two pairs of segments, which are long-lanceolate, acute, remotely and 

 grossly toothed ; the terminal segment very large, trifid and toothed 

 or laciniated ; upper leaves lanceolate, entire or trifid, tapering into a 

 short petiole ; flower-heads panicled, vnth a conspicuous peduncle, and 

 large lanceolate-linear bracteas ; scales of the almost bell-shaped invo- 

 lucre ten to twelve, equal in length to the disc, acute, on the margin 

 scarious, on the back with black papills; ray spreading; achenia gla- 

 brous, angulate, furrowed, transversely rough, half as long as the 

 pappus. 



Hab. In shady moist valleys of the Dandenoog Eanges, of Mount 

 Disappointment, and on the Delatite. 



A smaller variety (alpestris), with thicker, more dissected leaves, oc- 

 curs on the rocky summit of Mount BuUer, 



XXIX. Styltde^e. 



116. Coleostylis Sonderi, E. Muell. ; all over glandulously pilose; 

 stem simple or branched at the top, foliate; leaves alternate/roundish 

 heart-shaped or rhomboid, the uppermost sessile, the rest petiolate; 

 pedicels axillary, solitary, forming a terminal corymb ; basis of the co- 

 rolla tubulose. 



Hab, On wet places near the Violet Creek, found by Mr. C. Wilhelmi- 

 ' A neat little plant of the habit of <7. Preimi. 



117. Stylidium (Sect. Tolypangium) soholiferum.'F.MntW.i soboles 

 numerous, thread-like ; leaves all radical, crowded together in a dense 

 globule, nearly terete, glabrous, bearing a terminal hair; interstinct 

 scales wanting; racemes few-flowered, corymbose or panicled, togethe 

 with the scape glandulously pilose ; calyx five-parted ; lip with appen- 

 dages ; faux of the corolla naked. 



Hab, In sandy, stony declivities of the Grampians, the Serra, and 

 the Victoria Eanges. 



An elegant little plant, quite of the habit of a Saxifraga. It is 



goides and S, assimile. 



piliferum^ and in some degree also to S, saxifi 



XXX. GOOBENIACE.^. 



118. Velleya conmta* F. Muell. ; high, glaucous, smooth; stem 



* This is probably the Velleya pauduraf or mis of Allan Cuauingham.— E». 



