368 LVI. UMBELLIFER X. [ Actinotus. 
/ 2. A. leucocephalus, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 56. Erect, dichotomously 
branched, more or less clothed with soft hairs, 1 to 2 ft. high. ical ` 
leaves on long petioles, the others sessile, 3-partite, with linear or linear- 
cuneate segments, entire or again 3-partite or lobed. Umbels dense on long 
peduncles. Involucre expanding to 1 or 2 in. diameter, consisting of nume- 
rus lanceolate bracts, very densely covered with long silky hairs and twice as 
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ones perfect. Calyx-limb small; campanulate, truncate, transparent, silky- 
iry. Petals small, spathulate, on slender claws.  Disk-lobes forming 
glands on the undivided base of the style. Fruits broad, above 1 line long, 
very silky-hairy.—Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 847; Bunge in Pl. Preiss. i. 292. 
. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, n. 28; Canning river, Preiss, n. 2056 ; 
Stirling ranges, Maxwell. ere Mine ats. 
3. A. minor, DC. Prod. iv. 83. Stems from a perennial base, long and 
n diffuse or ascending, glabrous or slightly tomentose or rarely silky- 
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Disk-lobes sessile, with the styles between them distinct from the base. 
Me about 1 line long, hairy.— Zriocalia minor, Sm. Exot. Bot 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, a. 121, z 
others; Kiama, Harvey ; Illawarra, Shepherd. TA E 
: 4. A. omnifertilis, F. Muell. (as a Holotome) Annual or e Y 
tufted perennial base; stems ascending or erect, filiform, à to 1 ft. mgh, 
usually glabrous. Leaves mostly radical, on lon. 
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slender from the first and probably not ripening. Calyx-limb transparens 
frattoate. Petals orbicular, concave, unguiculate. Fruit but little more than 
s line long.— Holotome omnifertilis, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 129 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, Harvey ; Hay river, Maxwell. 
oideus, Benth. Stems diffuse, branched and shrubby at 
. 5. A. rhom e e Bn 
the base, afterwards erect or ascending to the height of 1 ft. or more, pen 
hl t hairs mixed with a stellate tomen Leaves chiefly 1n 
i ong s entum. es Chi 
ower part of the stem, ëss nearly orbicular or rhomboidal, irregu 
and acutely toothed, under 1 in, long, hairy when young, at length 
