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ligule ; disk-florets 3 or 4, scarcely exceeding the involucre. Achenes hairy. 
Pappus-bristles not very unequal.— Aster Cassinie, F. Muell. Le 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, £. Brown ; banks of Lake Leven, Maxwell. ' 
The preceding ten species, from O. tubuliflora to O. Cassinie, appear sometimes in the 
dried specimens to pass into each other by almost insensible gradations. 
33. O. ramosissima, Benth. A shrub of 2 or 3 ft., with numerous 
rather slender branches, scabrous-pubescent, mixed with a little loose wool. 
Leaves minute; reflexed, clustered in the axils, lanceolate or linear, entire, 
with revolute margins, all under 1 line long or rarely .the larger ones 
narrow and nearly 2 lines long, glabrous and smooth or scabrous above, 
with a thin loose wool underneath. Flower-heads solitary at the ends of 
the branchlets, forming an oblong or rarely eorymbose leafy panicle. Invo- 
luere broadly turbinate, about 3 lines long, the bracts often coloured and 
jagged at the edge. — Florets all blue (F. Mueller), those of the ray 12 to 15, 
more numerous in the disk and longer than the involucre. Achenes more 
or less villous. Pappus white, with a few short outer bristles.— Zurybia 
ramosissima, DC. Prod. v. 270; Aster cyanodiscus or Olearia cyanodiscalis, 
Muell. Fragm. v. 82. 
. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, Gaudichaud (the specimens not seen) ; in the N.W. 
interior, 4. Cunningham; near Exmouth, Fraser; near Clifton, New England, C. Stuart. 
ictoria. M 
Mv. districts, Z. Morton. 
À. Australia, Crystal Brook, Lake Torrens, F. Mueller. 
Var. minor. Flower-head ller, ovoid, with fewer florets.— Murray desert, F. Mueller ; 
Rotton Island, Wilhelmi. ; 
35. O. iodochroa, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 81. A bushy or spreading 
the branches slightly tomentose or glutinous or nearly glabrous. 
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ui. Flower-heads terminal, solitary or few in a dense terminal corymb. 
oluere hemispherical, nearly } in. diameter, the inner bracts coloured on 
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