524 LXII. COMPOSITAE. [Monenteles. 
rugose, 1 to 2 in. long, pouen into irregularly and EE wings. 
Clusters of flower-heads term and solitary, ovoid or tolin 
long. Bracts of the common menge linear or linear- enge SC with 
a few long woolly hairs, but not densely woolly as in the other species, those . 
of the partial involueres about 2 lines long, linear, acute, often ciliate with a 
few hairs. Female-florets numerous; disk-florets s oc? ry 
Queensland. Keppel and Shoalwater bays, Thirsty Sound and Broad Sound, R. 
Brown ; rocky hills, Cape Cleveland, 4. Cunningham ; Gilbert 1 E F. Mueller ; Flinders 
and Fitzroy rivers, Bowman ; Rockhampton b Keppel Bay, Thoze 
5. M. spheeranthoides, DC. Prod.v.456. A deene shrub 
or undershrub of 2 to 3 ft., more or less glandular-pubescent " M length 
glabrous. Leaves linear- lanceolate, obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long o 
shoots, smaller on the flowering-stems, very rugose or bullate, with ee 
toothed margins decurrent into narrow toothed Vie Clusters of flower- 
heads terminal, solitary, globose or slightly ovoid, fully 3 in. diameter. B 
of the common receptacle densely crowded, linear, very woolly-bairy, the 
spathulate tips glandular. Partial involucres very numerous, the bracts linear, 
scarious, white, “glabrous or slightly ciliate. Female-florets numerous ; disk- 
me esci 2, very rarely 1 or 3.  Style-lobes linear-lanceolate. Achenes 
gia 
N. Australia. Enderby Island, Dampier's Archipelago, N.W. coast, 4. Ges ‘ch 
Ge? Kean all Bo flower, showing the KE bracts of the common rece 
remains of - parti tial heads) ; t, Bynoe; granite hill, sen Bay, 
pig s Expeditio 
23. BLUMEA, DC. 
Involucre ovoid or campanulate, the bracts imbricate in several pe nar- 
row-linear, herbaceous or soft: Receptacle nearly flat, witho 
Florets all tubular, those of the circumference female, a vlr in 
numerous, those of the disk hermaphrodite, broader, usu 
with short fine tails or points at the base. Style e-bránches Pifo rd Sc 
outside at the end. Achenes small, usually somewhat compressed, striate of 
ed. Pappus of numerous capillar y bristles, iue or perenni tal 
usually villous — or glandular-pubescent. Leave alternate, toot 
lobed or rarely entire. Flower-heads in termina a 
eme: sometimes contracted into spikes or clusters, Or rarely the 
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Zen and variable weeds, upon which a large number of spurious set m "o i 
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the more SR age forms. The genus is very closely allied to to Conyza ot the former ; 
"e very nearly the same pes and achenes, with the involucres and habi 
Beie all Setiat sei 
Glandular-pubescent, n E entose. 
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