I 



Spyridhm!] xxxvi, uhamne^e. 431 



nearly orbicular, very obtuse or emarginate, 3 to 4 lines long or rarely more, 

 the margins tbick and recui-ved, thickly coriaceous, glabrous above with raised 

 reticulations, Avhicb distinguish this species from all others as yet known^ 

 silky-tonientose underneath witli short appressed hairs. Flower-heads very 

 small, in little dense cymes, usually with a small floral leaf. Brown bracts 

 pubescent. Calyx rarely above \ line long, hairy. Disk annular, undulate, 

 shghtly prominent, close above the ovary. Cocci coriaceous. — Trymalium 

 'phlebophijlhm, F. Muell., Reissek, in Linnia, xxix. 272. 



S. Australia- Elders range, near Lake Torrens, F. Mueller, 



13. S. coactilifolium, Reissek, in Lintiiea, xxix. 291. Young branches 

 rusty with a stellate tomentum mixed wdth spreading liairs. Leaves distinctly 

 petiolate, ovate or obovate, very obtuse or emarginate, mostly 3 to 5 lines 

 long, broad and obtuse at the base, flat on tlie edges, softly and densely 

 pubescent on both sides, tbe upper ones often w^hite and almost woolly. 

 Flower-heads combined into very compact compound heads, like those of 

 S, Lawrencii, with several white woolly floral leaves. Calyx slender, scarcely 

 1 line long, very hispid. Disk like that of S, Laicrencii, but the annular 

 ii^argin further removed above the ovary. 



S. Australia. Encounter Bay, WMtalcer, F. Mueller. 



Var. iuiegrifoUum, Rather less'tomentose, and the leaves not emarginate.— 5^. tJit/mifo- 

 hum, Reissek, in Linntca, xxix. 289, and S. Stnartii, Reissek, 1. c .290. The brown or 

 "lack stipules and bracts are present in all these, as well as in the original form, but arc 

 smaller and less conspicuous in the more scrubby and woolly specimens than in the more 

 luxuriant and elongated ones. P. Mueller unites both these forms with 5. vexWifenm, but 

 both the folia^ and the disk appear to me \o be quite different. 



14. S. complicatum, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 78. A rigid, divaricately- 

 branched shrub, allied to S. coactili/oUum^ in the indumentum and structure of 

 the flowers, with nearly the folinge of 6'. tridentatuyn, and of some Sknantlienia. 

 Leaves nearly sessile, obovate or broadly cuneate, emarginate, with a short 

 recurved point, i- to f in. long, narrowed into a petiole, mostly folded length- 

 ^vise, rather thick, softly tomeutose on both sides, especially underneath,_ or 

 nearly glabrous above. Flower-Leads compound, nearly globular, sessile, 

 ^ery dense, 3 to 6 Hues diameter. Brown bracts very short. Calyx very 

 hirsute, about 1 line long. Disk annular, lining the calyx-tube to a consider- 

 able distance above the ovary. Capsule globular or ovoid, 1| lines long; 

 cocci rather hard, opening in 2 valves. 



.W. Australia- "Dirk Harto^^'s Island,^. Cunningham; Murchison river and Cham- 

 pion Bay, Oldfield, 



15. S. westringisefoliiun, BenUi. Stellate tomentum of tbe young 

 hranchea often mixed with short simple pubescence. Leaves narrowly cuneate- 

 oblong, or almost oblong-linear, obtuse, above \ in. long, much naiTowed at 

 |ne base, the margins fecurved, glabrous or nearly so above, densely silky- 

 ^omeutose with almost appressed hairs underneath. Flower-heads small, in 

 Short leafy scarcely branched cymes, often with 1 or 2 floral leaves toeaeb 

 nead. ^ Brown bracts ovate-acuminate or lunceolate, often pubescent.^ Disk of 

 ? distmet glands close above the o\i\\y^\—Pomaderns westritigiitfolia, Steud. 

 28?' P^'^^ss. i. 185; Trymalium wedringicvfolium, Eeissek, in PI. Preiss. ii. 



