EE 
Brachycome. | LXII. COMPOSITA. 521 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 15, 99, 5th Coll. n. 378; Preiss, n. 108. 
36. B. collina, Benth. A small erect ae annual, rarely exceed- 
ing 2 in., glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leavy s small, linear, pinnatifid 
Flower-heads about anne es diameter. Involucral bracts few, ovate, the 
scarious margins ce rrow, the inner bracts more oblong. not 
longer than the CN those of the ray with a very small ligula, Sam 
80 long as the style. Achenes obovate, as long as the involucre, very flat, 
rdered by a wing divided into linear lobes hooked at the end; the disk 
sprinkled with a few hairs. Style-lobes que those of Zeta — Silphio- 
sperma collinum, Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 
pictoris. Hopkins river, Mount Emu, k jam Wimmera, Dallachy ; Skipton, 
S. Australia. Holdfast Bay, near Gawler Town, foot of Mount Alexander, F. 
pw 
perpusilla 8 $1011 „hi gh. Leaves mostly entire. Achenes rather less 
ie Eiskop perpusillum, Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 434; Brachycome leen 
Turez. in Bull. Mose. 1851, i. 176. 
Ww. is tralia, Zëtteg, 4th Coll. n. 208; Preiss, n. 2416. 
21. SPHZSRANTHUS, Willd. 
Flower-heads small, "— in dense globular clusters or compound heads. 
Involucres ovoi id, the bracts linear, imbricate in several rows.  Florets not 
times sterile, tubular, 5- toothed, thickened at the base. Anthers without tails 
? points at ‘the base. Styles of the disk-florets bulbous at the base, simple 
or with 2 slender branches, papillose outside towards the end. Achenes 
oblong, somewhat fla ined; without any pappus.—Coarse erect herbs. 
BS hae toothed, decurrent on the stem. Compound flower-heads 
Em genus Popes very few species, ranging over ss Asia and Africa, the two 
E E S bei g the two most common over the whol 
ae Tnvolue S bracts ending in a ebe: ciliate 
"x Disk. florets (always ?) sterile Taik 1. S. kirtus. 
"a Involucral bracts etin often ‘jagged at at the en isk- 
ET s?) fertile . . 2. S. microcephalus. 
Willd.; DC. Prod. v. 369. Erect with few divaricate 
usi, more or b. hirsute, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves obovate, oblong or 
` nde, irregularly and biet toothed or almost lobed, decurrent alon 
^ B. stem into interrupted toothed wings. Flowe r-heads numerous, in xmi 
E florets 6 to 8 or itia dese not exceeding the involucre ; disk- 
ef 3, “with simple styles. Achenes of the ray Eet hay, those 
the disk abortive. —Wight, Ic. t. 1094 ; F. Muell. Fragm. i 
