- Conyza.] LXII. COMPOSITE. 497 
herb, more or less dapes especially the inflorescence. Lower leaves 
ovate, acuminate, often 3 to 4 in. long, u per ones smaller, ovate- lanceolate 
equal, Es 2 lines long, the outer ones linear-lanceolate, acute, the inner 
_harrower, more acuminate, and more scarious. Pappus slightly” exceeding 
the deg Ray-florets exceedingly numerous, the style about as long as 
the pappus, the filiform corollas very much shorter. Disk-florets about 2 to 
6 E p" hii, DC. Prod. v. 384; C. polycephala, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. 
66. 
- ec: Pio zéien? Bay, R. Bro 
NS. dy Se, ge “ef the scrub, Richmond river, (C. Moore ?) in Herb. F. Mueller. 
The specie India. Ith uch the aspect of Blumea balsamifera, DO., 
-but differs i in quss iion and anther 
| 2. C. æ vegyptiaca, dit.; DC. Prod. v. 382. A coarse, erect, hirsute 
 àntual or biennial, sometimes 2 to 3 ft. t. high and nearly simple, except the 
terminal panicle, sometimes divaricately branched below the middle. Leaves 
te or oblong, obtuse or rarely almost acute, or Ko in are 
whole mu or at the base only, or pinnatifid with ovate oblong rely 
1 Dies, Flower-heads rather large for the genus, bird pediadthté; in 
| cymes or clusters, forming a terminal corymbose panicle. Involueral 
bracts n Narr i 
d Pappus not exceeding the Eine Ray-florets exceedingly numerous, 
all filiform, but not so short as in C. viscidula ; disk- pc Ae numerous, 
^ varying in different heads. SÉ lineariloba, DC. Pro 
H 
Xueensland. Keier E GE ii Island, Broad Sound, R. ; Port 
M'Gillivray ; Burnett and B F. Mueller ; ar attr Bis and 
z uan achy ; Brisbane ito auri "Ke eppel Bay, Thozet ; also from Leich- 
peci is mmon in aig e and subtropical Asia and Africa. Most of T - ap? 
Specimens, like some from Amoy (Hance), and the majority of the Mau a I 
ong to a variety with the gg more SN cidedly pinnatifid than com are ull 
E Egyptian and Indian specimens; but in e of the Australian specimens the leav 
"ira ha only as in the Egyptian and Indian pd and one mm ed on the Nile by Speke 
ge as them precisely like the common Australian 
17. MINURIA, DC. 
(Therogeron, DC. ; Elachothamnus, DC. ; Kippistia, F. Muell.) 
Involuere ovoid or hemispherical, the bracts narrow, in few rows, dry or 
* on the margin. Receptacle without scales. Florets of the ray 
^ Numerous, in several rows, ligulate but very narrow and sometimes 
^ Upwards, usually 5-toothed. Anthers obtuse at the base. Style-lobes 
obtuse acute or somewhat elongated tips, ren on the ke? or the 
