520 LX11. COMPOSITA. [Brachycome, 
(R. Brown). Involucral bracts rather broadly scarious. — flattened, 
usually tuberculate, bordered by a rather broad wing, ei entire or more 
frequently broken up into lobes. Wi aide F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. 
Soc. Vict. i. 44, and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 148. 
Legem Burnett river and Peak Downs, F. Mat ee river, Mitchell. 
N. S. Wales. Paterson’s and Hunter's rivers, R. Bro 
2. B. Sieberi, DC. Prod. v. 306. A glabrous perennial, with weak 
Segen t branching and leafy stems. Leaves from obovate to cuneate- 
oblong, sessile except the lower ones and often stem-clasping, obtuse and 
usually with a few small teeth or lobes towards the end or the narrower ones 
minutely 3-toothed at the end. Flower-heads small, on slender peduncles. - 
Involucral bracts narrow. Achenes narrow- ae very flat, with thickened 
margins, not winged. Pappus conspicuo 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown ; mis n. 485; Harvey. 
- B. discolor, C. Stuart in Herb. Hook. A glabrous perennial, stems 
dich branched and decumbent at the base, ascending to a foot in | ngth 
more. Leaves obovate or cuneate-oblong - obtuse, Sage crenate or 
pinnatifid, of a firm texture, purple underneath when fresh ( C. Stuart), all 
petiolate. Flower-heads small, on ve les. Involucral bracts 
narrow. Achenes obovate, flat, often tuberculate, with thickened margins. 
Pappus conspicuous. 
Wales. New England, C. Stuart; Clarence river, Beckler. 
34. B. multifida, DC. Prod. v. 306. A branching, erect or diffuse 
perennial or undershrub, usually glabrous. Leaves pinnate with linear seg- 
ments, sometimes entire but m more ler lobed or Le sometimes 
pressed, the sides tubereular, the smooth margins often prominent but not 
winged. Pappus € — B. glabra, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 59. 
N. S. Wales. Port Ja ekson, es Woolls; Head of the PES Leichhardt ; 
New England, C. es Peel’s e, A. Cunn ningham. st 
ctoria. From La ke aeien in Gipps’ Land to the Grampians and Murray river, 
F. Mueller and others Benth. 
, Var. dilatata. Leaves thin, the lobes often See? linear or cuneate.—B. tenera, 
in Hueg. Enum. 59. Hunter's River, R. Bro 
oluere. 
N IV. SILPHIOSPERMA. —Ray-florets not exceeding the inv E 
SEC 
Achenes flat, bordered by an entire or toothed ind Pappus none. 
dulosa, Benth. Very closely allied to B. collina but e 
35. B. glan 
the erect or ascending branching stems attaining 3 to 6 in., and more : m 
glandular-pubescent. Leaves linear, acutely toothed or pinnatifid 1 di 
heads about 2 lines diameter, with the florets of B. collina, Ze? SR few 
ute 
: uit 
bordered by a few teeth.—Silphiosperma glandulosum, Steetz in Pl. Preis. ie | 
