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florum^'^^ with very closely arranged flowers, seems to have 

 blue bracts. 



The Synapheas are in many cases ragged-looking plants, 

 whose leaves seem as if they were intended to be larger, but 

 starved into hard dry lobes. S. decorticans^^'* is a strange 

 oak-leaved plant, whose bark is thrown off in numerous thin 

 brown layers ; S. brachystachya^^'^ seems clothed with the 

 leaves of an Eryngium ; and S. pinriata^^^ has large regu- 

 larly pinnated leaves, glaucous on the underside. 



Lamhertia occurs in the form of a most beautiful species, 

 with orange-coloured flowers,^^^ and is moreover of great 

 Botanical interest from its flower-heads consisting each of 

 either thirteen or nineteen flowers, neither more nor less. 

 When Dr. Brown described the genus in his Prodromus, he 

 only knew species with either one or seven flowers in a head ; 

 and with his habitual sagacity he ascribed that number to 



(149) Conospermum densijlonim ; sericeo-pilosum, foliis filiformibus dense imbri- 

 catis, pedunculo longissimo apice corymbose, floribus capitatis bracteis 

 lineari-lanceolatis villosisslmis (coeruleis?) aequalibus, calycis long^ tubulosi 



laciniis elongatis, ovario pubescente apice comoso, stigmate fornicato. 



An Chiluris associandum ?, calyx enim tubo gaudet elongate laciniis line- 

 aribus solito longioribus, baud tamen caudatis. 



(150) Syn APHEA fZecor^icaws; foliis favosis glabris inferioribus obovatis et cunea- 

 tis trilobis superioribus cuneatis tripartitis petiolo dupl5 brevioribus : laciniis 

 oblongis planis obtusis mucronatis lateralibus 2-3-lobis intermedia tripartita 

 lobis bilobis trilobisque, squamis involucrantibus sericeo-villosis, spicis elon- 

 gatis foliorum longitudine, calycibus glabris, ovario pubescente, stigmate 

 truncate obsolete bicorni. 



(151) Synaphea gracillima ; foliis favosis glabris inferioribus obovato-oblongis 

 trilobisque superioribus tripartitis petiolo tereti gracili triple brevioribus ; 

 laciniis divaricatis lineari-oblongis planis obtusis mucronatis lateralibus in- 

 termediaque bi-tripartitis, squamis involucrantibus glaberrimis, spicis ramo- 

 sis gracillimis foliis multo longioribus, calycibus ovarioque glabris, stigmate 

 bicorni. 



(152) Synaphea brachjstachya ; foliis planis subtus sericeis : inferioribus obovatis 

 subsessilibus, intermediis cuneatis in petiolum ipsis longiorem angustatis 

 trilobis laciniis spinoso-tridentatis ; suprerais petiolis dilatatis multo longi' 

 oribus tripartitis canaliculatis laciniis tridentatis spinosis, spinis erectis foliis 



brevioribus, ovario lanato, stigmate truncate. Variat. foliis angustiori- 



bus, subtus glabriusculis. 



(153) Synaphea pinnata ; foliis pinnatis 2-3-jugis ; foliolis oblonge-linearibus 

 reticulatis subtiis glaucis petiolo brevioribus: jugo infimo nunc trifoliolato, 

 spicis ramosis foliis mult6 longioribus, floribus distantibus, calycibus glabris, 

 ovario pubescente. 



(154) Lambertia multijlora ; involucre floribus duplo breviore, foliis linearibus 

 mucronatis basi angustatis utrinque glabris margine planis. 



