Pluchea.] LXII. COMPOSITES. ` 529 
hemispherical, t the bracts much imbricate, narrower than in the preceding 
species, the inner ones 2 lines long with subulate points. Female florets 
Yery'numerous, scarcely thicker than the bristles of the pappus; disk-florets 
® numerous, with an undivided exserted style. Anther-tails minute. 
-- terete or nearly so.—Hyrea rubelliflora, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Arnhem's ME 
Mae; Nichol Bay, F. Gregory s SE dei, (a Prud form "with smaller flow er-heads). 
sland. PM Bay and Broa R. Brown ; in Gi Eege Mitchell. 
Ww. Australia. Murchison river, Ota. nme. ‘6th Coll. n. 163. : 
-Var? major. Taller, more divaricately branched. Sege and less corym- 
bose. Inner involucral bract about 3 mes fus P. Se e sometimes branched. 
N. S; Wales. Darlin Ge river, Victorian Exp 
S. Australia. Dried river-beds, Cal SN dm F. Mueller. 
$. P. Squarrosa, Benth. Erect, glabrous or minutely glandular-pubes- 
ent, with virgate corymbose branches, l to 2 ft. high. Leaves linear linear- 
pinnatifi, narrowed at the base, often above 1 in. long. Flower-heads much 
"er than in P. Eyrea.  Involucres hemispherical, fully 4 in. diameter, the 
bracts humerous, with herbaceous reflexed tips, the onge with acuminate, 
rect, coloured tips. Female florets very numerous, slender, but scarcely 
fliform, rather longer than the involucre, the style- so sot: SE 
Disk-forets several, with an undivided style. Achenes pu 
Ww. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. us 
6. P. de entex, 2. Br. Herb. Erect, much branched, with a hard almost 
Zeit base, ] to 2 ft, high, viscid and minutely pubescent. Leaves linear, 
my above lin. long, remotely toothed or Weg with short distant “ape 
gre 
like point, a few of the outer ones greener and more recurved. Female florets 
"ay numerous, sab of the disk usually few. | Achenes pubescent. 
road Sound E — Sound, R. Brown ; sources of Gilbert river, 
p Queens sland. 
| Mueller ; Port eal Fitzala 
25. EPALTES, Less. 
(Spheromorphea, DC. (partly); Ethuliopsis, F. Muell.) 
Involucre ovoid-globular or hemispherical, the bracts imbr icate, Sac 
dry and rigid. Rece ceptacle nearly flat, without seales all 
Zog, cious. 
| hints Bu Or poin disk-flowers undivided or 
m. ts at the base. Style of the dis 
t Vith short dnb. branches, papillose outside. Achen es nearly terete, striate, 
the ray without any pappus, those of the disk usually abortive and 
Mih à Pappus of 2 or 3 very deciduous bristles.— Herbs, either erect aš - 
Pc or 
— Leaves alternate, entire, toothed or lo as ds 
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