436 XXXVI. KUAMNEiE. [Stenanthemitm. 



mentum, tlie under softly pubescent or densely villous with appressed wluLish 

 or rust-coloiu'cd hairs. Flower-heads rarely above 3 lines diameter, stir- 

 rouuded by 2 or more floral leaves and several brown bracts. Flowers usually 

 few. Calyx fully 2 lines long, slender and silky-hairy precisely as in S.jnme- 

 leoirJes, but it does not appear to be so constricted nor to break off so readily 

 above the ovary. — Cryptajidra leucophracta^ Schlecht. Lhrn^ea, xx. 640. 



Victoria, JFurray desert, F. MncUer, 



S. Australia, Sandy deserts and arid hills, from the Murray to Spencer's Gulf, 



V, Mueller ; Kangaroo Island, Waierkouse* 



3. S. pizneleoides, BentJi. Low, prostrate, and much-branched, the 

 young brandies loosely pubescent-tomentose. Leaves obovate or obcordate, 

 mostly 2 to 3 lines long, flat or folded upwards, often undulate and the'edges 

 very slightly recurved, glabrous or the upper ones hoary-tomentose on the 

 upper side, white underneath with a close stellate tomentum, usually mixed 

 with a few longer appressed sometimes silky hairs. Tlower-beads very dense, 

 \ to \ in. diameter, with numerous imbricate brown bracts and often 2 or 3 

 tomeutose floral leaves. Calyx fidly 2 lines long, very slender, hirsute out- 

 side with white hairs, after flowering constricted above the ovary and often 

 breaking off Avhcn the fruit ripens. Anther-cells rather acute at the lower 

 end. — Cryptayidra (Slenocodon) piweleoides^ Hook. f. Fl, Tasm. i. 75, t, 13. 



Tasmania. East coast, at Great Swan Port, BachliousCy C. Stuart; Spring Bay, Gunn. 

 P. MuellcT (Fragm. iii. 77) refers this to S. leucojihracium, to which it is certainly very uearly 

 allied, but it must be considered at least as a well-marked variety in its prostrate habit and 

 the much closer tomentuin, the adult leaves (except the floral ones) nearly glabrous, 



4. 'S. coronatam, EeiHseky in TAuncea^ xxix. 295. Small and apparently 



prostrate, the branches pubescent with scattered stellate hairs. Leaved 

 cuneate, emarginate or 3-tootlied, 3 to 4 lines long, usually folded lengthwise 

 and softly tonientose on both sides. Flower-heads 3 to 4 lines diiimeter, ses- 

 sile amongst 2 to 4 floral leaves, the brown bracts vciy small and narrow. 

 Calyx nearly 2 lines long, not so slender as in the other species, tonientose 

 outside. Anther-cells obtuse, — Cnjptandra coronata^ Eeissek, in PI. Preiss. 

 ii. 288. 



^V, Australia^ Brummond, 2nd Coll. n. 722. 



5. S. humile, Benth. Stems 2 or 3 in. high, bare below, the flow^er- 

 heads and leaves closely ci'owded in the upper part. Leaves narrow-linear, 

 seldom \ in. long, the margins closely revolute, nearly glabrous above, to- 

 mentose and with a few long woolly hairs underneath. Ileads few-flowered, 

 almost sessile amongst the leaves. Brown bracts very broad, obtuse or tlie 

 midrib ending in a fine point. Calyx slender, 2 lines long, densely hispid 

 with long w^hite woolly hairs. 



MT, Australia. Between Moore and IVrurchison rivers, Brummond^ n, 91 (the same 

 number as Spyridiam poli/cephalum^ but probably froju a dilFereut set). 



6. S. 'Waterhousii, Benth. An erect somewhat viscid shrub, the 



branches slightly tomeutose. Stipules linear-lanceolate. Leaves linear, 

 obtuse or with a recurved point, \ to | in. long, the margins closely revolute, 

 glabrous above, slightly toinentose underneath. Flowers not numerous, in 

 rather loose leafy terminal cymes, and not so closely sessile as in the other 



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