522 LXII. COMPOSITE. [ Spheranthus. 
N. Australia. — river and Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller ; Albert river and 
Bentinck's "Island, Henn 
Qu ueensland. Sellhei eim river, Bowman ; Maranoa and Belyando ns Mitchell. 
The species is common in tropical Asia, extending into tropical Afric 
2. S. microcephalus, Villd.; DC. Prod. v. 369. Erect, 1 to 2 ft. 
high, quite glabrous or rarely Sat glandular-pubescent. Leaves ellip- 
tical, oblong or lanceolate, acute, with small acute teeth, decurrent along the 
stem into continuous entire or slightly toothed wings. Flower-heads in | glo- 
bular clusters or compound heads, rather smaller ‘than in $. kirtus. Invo- 
lucral bracts oblong-linear or cuneate, often jagged at the end. Florets and 
achenes of S. hirtus, but those of the disk fertile as well as those of the 
cireumference.—S. glaber, DC. Prod. v. 310; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. a? 
' N. Australia. Low flats, Alligator river, and Van Diemen’s Gulf, N.W 
4, Cunningham ; islands of the Gulf of NS R. Seen MC river, F. hes. 
Also in Ceylon and in the Indian Archipelago 
22. MONENTELES, Labill. 
Flower-heads small, sessile, in dense globular clusters or compound heads, 
interspersed with woo y — Partial involueres ovoid, the bracts linear, 
usually glabrous and more or less scarious. Florets of ‘the circumference 
florets solitary or rarely 2 or 3, t Kier: hermaphrodite but usually sterile, 4- 
or 5-toothed. Anthers with more or less prominent tails or points at the 
base. Style-lobes flattened or ginge subulate, papillose outside towards the 
end. Achenes vam? terete or slightly compressed, those of the disk usually 
abortive. Pappus of capillary simple bristles united in a ring at the base— 
É— or uat t usually glandular-pubescent and strongly scented, 
often woolly. Leaves alternate) crenate or toothed, decurrent on the s og 
The species ar , Pu Australian, SN " wo of them extend also into New Cal 
Peg Archi With the compound inflorescence and decurrent leaves ot ` 
us the genus is an distinguished by the pappus and the tailed antes GE and 
cence is nearly that of the Anyian Se ` but there are numerous female filiform florets, " 
the style-branches of the disk Ke re not truncate. From the American genus P/ero 
scarcely differs in the hermaphrodite M usually reduced to a single one. 
Clusters of flower-heads small but numerous, forming a ter- 
; ge dense or interrupted s spi 
nvolueres rigid, about 4 lines long. — ovate or obovate, unu 
often above 3 in. long, the wool very dense, almost floccose. 1. Jf. verbascifoliut. 
fy nap not 2 lines long. Leaves S obovate or Sep Se: j 
in. long, tomentose or shortly w 2. M. spicatus. 
“Pat sf SE beer? globular or ovoid- oblong. 
tose o 
woolly. Decurrent wings entire. Clusters 3. M. sphacelatus: 
Cen  glandular-pubeseent, not tomentose. “Decurrent wings 
Cites ovoid or oblong, large. Disk-florets solitary . 4 anthoides. 
5. 
M. glandulosus: 
Clusters globular, rather small. Disk-florets usually 2 M. spharani 
