478 LXII. COMPOSITA. [Olearia. 
clusters or on luxuriant barren shoots sometimes narrow and above 1 line 
long. Flower-heads terminating short leafy Mende smaller than in 0, 
ramulosa, but usually rather larger than in O. floribunda, and not so race- 
mose. Florets, — ues Pappus as in O. ramulosa. serie microphyllus, 
Labill. PL Nov. Holl. ii. 199; A. ari hs Pers. Syn. Pl. ii. 442; 
Diplostephium bibite. Neos, Gen. et Sp. Ast. 190; Eurybia lepido- 
phylla, DC. Prod. v. 270; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 178. 
N. S. Wales. Darling river, Victorian Expeditio 
: Victoria. Grampians, Wilhelmi; Wimmera, Dallachy ; N N.W. part of the colony, 
k Morton 
asmania, Derwent river, Adventure Bay, islands of Bass’s Straits, R. Brown 
sandy hills near the sea on the N. coast, also on the western and other mountains, pe? 
and others. 
Australia. From the Murray to St. | Vincent's and Spencer's Gulfs, F. Mueller 
— others. 
—— brechyphylla, F. Muell.; Sond. in Linneea, xxv. 455 , appears-to be founded on 
specimens with half-starved flower- heads, with the ray-florets sometimes not much developed, 
bnt ef sometimes longer than their styles. 
30. O. 
more or less ber denim ntose. Lea ves Vi not geet: Ted obtuse or 
nearly so, with revolute margins, rarely exceeding } in., glabrous above, 
woolly-tomentose underneath. Flower-heads ovoid or almost cylindrical, 
shortly peduneulate or nearly iss pee into short terminal racemes 0r 
spikes. Involucre much NM e, 3 to 4 lines long, the braets obtuse or 
late. Achenes silky-hairy. Pappus bristles rather unequal, but w ithout any 
distinct series of short ones.— Zurybia subspicata, Hook. in Mi ich, Trop. 
Austr. 293. 
Queensland. Maranoa and Belyando rivers, Mitchell. 
ed Gi Wales. Darling river, Victorian Expedition; Murray desert, F. Mueller, 
Da! 
flower-heads. 
The gege differs from O. ramulosa chiefly in its longer leaves and larger 
31. O. exiguifolia, F Muell. Fragm. v. 67. A much- branched shrub 
of 3 to 4 he pom resembling the smaller forms of O. ramulosa, differing 
chiefly in the leaves, which are- KE or broly amet n 
obtuse and ege) 3-toothed, 1 to 2 lines long, narrowed into a short pe zë 
Flower-heads small, terminating short axillary BE “Flor achenes, 
and pappus of O. ramulosa. — Aster eziguifolius, F. Mue 
W. Australia. Sand hummocks, Eyre's Relief, Mazwell. 
32. O. Cassinize, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 68. Erect, 6 to 8 ft. high, ech 
numerous slender erect branchlets, slightly hoary, with a close fine intrica 
tomentum. Leaves narrow-linear, with revolute margins, 4 tO i 
