226 AN UNDESCRIBED SPECIES OF ACTISOTUS, 



lobes covered with silky plumose hairs, inside glabrous. Petals 

 none. Fertile stamens few, rarely 5 in each flower, mostly 2. 

 Staminodia strap- shaped or linear, these often are 5 in number. 

 Styles 2, shortly joined at the base, thick and short, clavate, 

 curved inwards. Fruit nearly orbicular, black, glabrous or 

 slightly ciliate on the ridges just below the calyx. 



This plant was exhibited as probably new at the April Meeting 

 of the Society in 1904; as since then more perfect data having been 

 obtained, it is now described as new. 



Dividing the known Actinoti into two divisions, i.e., the erect 

 and prostrate, this species would be classed with the latter, for Mr. 

 Paddison informed me that, " from the centre the stalks radiate 

 in every direction and lie on the ground slightl}' turned up at the 

 base," and also, "that it was growing in rather stony ground 

 made up of red loam, sand and stone." 



As a prostrate plant its systematic classification becomes easy, 

 for only two or three of the species are placed as decumbent and 

 none actually as prostrate. 



The umbels and involucre have the facies of those species with 

 erect habit, the bracts of the involucre, however, being a little 

 smaller, but much larger than those of A. Gihbonsii, F.v.M., and 

 having a different tomentum from any described species. 



Like A. Heliajithi, Labill., A. minor, DC, A.helUdioides, Benth., 

 and A. glomeratus, Benth., it has no petals, the absence of which 

 organ, along with other features, separates it from A. leucocephaluSy 

 Benth., A.rhomhoideiis, Benth., and A. Forsjjthii, ]Maiden k Betche. 

 From A. Schwarzii, F.v.M., it differs in the length of peduncles 

 and pedicels, habit and floral characters. 



When herbarium specimens of this Flannel-flower are placed 

 in juxtaposition with those of described species, macroscopical 

 differences are at once apparent; and when examined microscopi- 

 cally these are still further emphasised. 



The numerous hairs on the sepals are plumose as well as those 

 occurring on other parts of the plant. 



Some of the floral structures are perhaps not so regular or rather 

 constant as pertain in other species. Only a few of the flowers 



