Pleurocarpea.| — . LXII. COMPOSITAE. 461 
bent branches, our specimens above 1 ft. long, and quite glabrous. Leaves 
orate or oval-elliptical, mueronate-acute, contracted into a very short petiole, 
the larger ones above 2 in. long, irregularly bordered by acute teeth, the 
upper ones smaller and entire. Peduncles terminal, solitary or 2 together, 
lto 2 in. long or longer after flowering, slightly thickened under the head. 
Imoluere about 4 lines long, thickened at the base, the bracts broadly lan- 
eolate, acuminate. Florets about 10 to 20, of a bluish-purple, the tube ex- 
“sri the involuere, often incurved, shortly dilated into a deeply 5-lobed 
mb. 
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N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, who had given it the 
provisional name of Lipothrix denticulata, but he afterwards published as Lipotriche a very 
different African plant. 
7. ELEPHANTOPUS, Linn. 
the base, Style-lobes subulate. Pappus of a few stiff bristles, somewhat 
ited. at the base,—Stiff herbs, usually grey with appressed often silky 
Leaves alternate. ; 
À genus of about a dozen American species, one of which is also spread over tropical 
Africa and Asia as well as Australia, 
lea io 4 in. long, obovate-oblong, more or less crenate, and usually 
"otia into a petiole. Stem leaves few and more sessile ower-heads 
ly clustered into terminal hemispherical nd heads, of nearly 1 
m. diameter, surrounded by about 4 broadly cordate sessile leafy bracts. In- 
ointed, Almost priekly.—Wight, Ic. t. 1086 ; 
N. Austr 
America, Africa, and Asia. 
Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander. 
alta IV. EuPATORIACEX.—Leaves usually opposite. Flower-heads 
iti the florets all tubular, hermaphrodite, and regular or nearly so. An- 
obtuse at the base, without tails. Style-branches elongated, obtuse and 
Usually club-shaped or thickened at the end. 
` This tribe is scar : ; ; sued 
Warte cely Australian, the following three species, perhaps all introduced, are 
guished from all other tribes by their opposite leaves and club-shaped styles. 
8. EUPATORIUM, Linn. 
| in Doluro hemispherical, campauulate of cylindrical, the bracts imbricate, 
or more series, Receptacle flat or slightly convex, without scales. 
