530 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Epaltes. 
heads small in dichotomous cymes or lateral and sessile. Involucral bracts 
iod obtuse in the Australian species, more acute in the Indian Æ. divaricata. 
A smal! genus, eomprising, besides the two prier haie (one of which is endemic, 
and the other only recently found in Formosa), at least on e, a common one iu tropi 
Asia and some parts of Africa. The genus is GH allied Pa ëng differing chiefiy in 
the absence of any pappus to the fertile achen 
Erect, dichotomously branched. Flower-heads e ter- 
` minal, Sin ge itastarea. often dicecious 1. E Cunninghamii. 
Diffuse annual. Flower- Sor penes pou pU or e 
nean s s pst . 2. E. australis. 
1. E. Cunninghamii, Benth. Glabrous, erect, } to 12 ft. high, di- 
chotomously branched. ave sessile and half stem- clasping or sometim es 
d decurrent on the stem, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, irregularly p 
er ones small, narrow, and sometimes entire Flo wer-heads small, 
Geer at the ends of the branches of | loose dichotomous cymes. Invo ]ucres 
ovoid-globular, varying from 1 to d lines diameter, the bracts very obtuse. 
Fe mile florets not exceeding the involuere, in some s ecimens very nU- 
merous with only 1 or 2 bis diede sterile florets in the disk or none at 
all, in others the EE florets few with rather numerous sterile ones. Style 
of the disk-florets undivided. Fertile achenes without any pappus sterile 
ones with a few long deciduous bristles. —Xpalte s australis, DC. Prod. v. 
462, not of Less. ; Ethulia Cunninghamii, Hook. in Miteh. Ge Austr. 62; 
Ethuliopsis dioica, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 155 ; Pl. Vict. t. 
de cael n AM bays, R. Brow 
arshes and inundated tracts ni the Lachlan and Macquarne 
rivers, Aug per ihe ningham, Mitchell; Darling and Murray rivers, and thence to the 
Bar er Range, Victorian and other Expeditions. 
Vie Murray desert, Lake Lalbert, F. Mueller. 
2. Bea australis, Less. in Linnea, v. 148, and Syn. -— 206. z 
(or sometimes persa nii; branching at the base and diffu tra : 
small or rarely exceeding 1 ft., glabrous scabrous or hirsute with transparen 
lyrate, 4 to 13 in. long. Flower-heads lateral, sessile or shortly pedunculate alt 
Involuere depressed- -hemispherical, 2 to 3 lines diameter, the bracts orbie 
concave and very obtuse. Female florets not exceeding ihe involucre, $ sa 
and not so slender as in E. Ounninghamii, and very nu umerous Me a flore 
ver to Arnhem's Land, F. p Mueller; in the interior, ad 
N 
Stuart s Gi erga, p inii of the Gulf of ri R. Brow i 
$ e. . , 
Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown, Thozet ; E. coast, A. 4, Cunningham; Se? 
D er. d 
t 
. Wales.. Port be ckson, R. — taf and others. geed 
lA: Murray river, F. Mueller; Cooper's ieu 04 A Mah : 
received also from Pestis di Oldham an The ‘species has, at sic, o mp p 
with Myriogyne minuta, especially in inflorescence e, but besides pe distinetly y tai : 
and other floral characters, it is readily distinguished by the involuere- 
