LVI. UMBELLIFERA. 367 
7. ACTINOTUS, Labill. 
d Sm.; Holotome, Endl. ; Hemiphues, Hook. EI 
ovate, of a single ien SE by the calyx-limb, compressed from front 
e (the broad commissure ?) nearly flat with 1 rib, 
the other (the back ?) mines with 2 ribs, at or near each margin. 
Vite none. Seed filling the cavity. Horti dier annual or with a perennial 
woody or tufted base. Leaves toothed or ternately divided. ` 
Umbels sim ple, surrounded by a radiating involucre of herbaceous or coloured 
and often aly omentose or woolly bracts exceeding the flowers. Flowers o be 
The chatacters upon which it ie SEN divided appear 
too artificial and too little in correlation with each other to serve even for 
Stems OWN 
Involucres 
d, more or less leafy. Mis mis elucidate. 
very wooll 
T 
Densely "e Calyx 5-lobed. Petals none. . . . . 1l. A. Helianthi. 
Silky-hair Calyx dune Petals gien 3 2. A. leucocephalus 
ire c ^i #"in. diameter. Stems di 
ves divided, white underneath. Calyx 5 Co SE debe 3. A. m 
Leaves 3-toothe d, glabrous. Calyx truncate. Petals present . 4. 4. wer 
leaves orbicular or pees, toothed. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals : 
d : . . « 5. A. rhomboideus. 
Stock den tuft ted. SE and peduncles radical. ` Involncre 
ie] E n iter, -— bracts united at the base, Calyx 5-lobed. E 
8 Petals none (or pres t?) . 20. s. s. + 6. A. bellidicides. 
leafy. ` Leaves “divided with linear lobes. Umbels small, 
ile, Calyx 5-toothed. Petals none. . vo. a s] Te M. glomeralus. 
LAH elianthi, Zabill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 61. t. 92. vais apparently 
eben l to 2 ft. high, covered with a soft dense almost floccose or woolly 
nun, rarely w ring off from the upper side of the fidet aves. Leaves 
twice 3-parti te 
e, with ‘hate or Along user mostly obtuse segments, entire 
T again 2- or 3-lobed. Um dense, on long stout peduncles. Involucre 
Tadiating à diameter of 2 or 3 i a consisting of 10 to 18 colou softly 
tomentose bracts. Flowers on filiform pedicels of 13 to 2 lines, but so 
form a dense head of 3 in. to $ in. diameter, the outer ones 
» the central ones perfect, both in numerous rows. yx-limb 
transparent, about 3 line long, deeply divided into obtuse linear lobes. 
e. isk-lobes oblong, gland-like, adnate to the entire base of the 
mt 2 lines long, covered with long silky oper wn peg. 
rod. iv. 83; Eriocalia major, Sm. Exot. Bot. ii. 37. t 
Md; , 
ax N Wales. Port ee dd ec Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 128, - 
ew England, C. Stuart ; on the upper Maranoa, Mitchell. 
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