Eclipta.) LXII. COMPOSITÆ. 537 
ensland. Broad Sound, R. dies Rockhampton, Da//achy; Moreton Bay, 
C au also in Leichhardf's collectio 
N. | Wales. Cabramatta and Mu udgee, rui Clarence river, Beckler ; Darling 
and Murray rivers, Dallachy and Goodwin, Herrg 
etoria. Avoca and oni rivers, F. Mue 
- S. Australia. river, St. Vineent's Gen F. Anel 
A specimen from Facing Ts land, Port Curtis, R. Brow n, has pers volueral bracts nearly 
as narrow as in E platyglossa, bnt cording h to R. Beara: s notes, the ray-florets ‘are white 
aud it seems almost to connect the two 0 species 
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32. WEDELIA, Jacq. 
(Wollastonia, DC.) 
Tnvolucre of about 2 rows of herbaceous bracts either all nearly equal or 
the outer ones larger and more leaf-like. Receptacle chaffy. Florets of the 
my female, ligulate; disk-florets hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed, mostly 
fertile. ‘Ant iens obtuse at the base. Style-branches with rather acute tips, 
usually hirsute. Achenes more or less flattened, or rarely 3-angled, with 
obtuse or acute rarely winged edges. Pappus none or more frequently con- 
sisting of minute scales united in a little cup aud occasionally produced into 
lor 2 short bristles.—Herbs with opposite leaves. Flower-heads peduncu- 
late or rarely gave sessile, terminal or in the forks of the branches or axils 
of the upper leaves. Ray yellow. 
A considerable pavore qid bero few African and Asiatic species. Of the six Aus- 
tralian ones, three ar widely spread over India and the Archipelago, one or ie an two of 
them extending speed Africa, a rere is also found in Timor, the remaining two are endemic. 
The biflora and some other species without any pappus have been separated under the 
mme of Wollustonia, but in W. spilanthoides the pappus is often so small as to be quite 
Neonspicuous when the achene is ripe, and in every tee respect the species are all too 
Alosely allied to be generically separated. It is probable that the several genera alluded to 
Gray under Zi ipocheta will have to be united also with Wedelia. 
Five or six of the outer Stee E bracts more leaf-like and longer 
Son 2 Gen cup-shape i 
ves obl di t short petiole or N 
ze? och or incl, narrowed into a e SG 
ves ovate prope 
mostly longer than the lea : 9. W. urticifolia. 
Le t th or gerer bristles fi rom p e 3 
ves ] ate. Achenes compresse = 
ees, r. or linear, acumina " 8 Kier, 
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ta, E hn an zled or 
res males: oblong or lanceolate, obtuse. chenes ` á SCH 
Paps none or of. 1 or 2 deciduous brist les. 
peling perennial. Leaves ovate or broadly ie 5. W. biffora 
Erect coarse z e annual, Leaves lanceolat 6. W. asperrima. 
5 he calendulacea, Less. ; De Prod. v. 539. A low decumbent 
Prostrate or creeping perennial, attalü ing some ECH es 2 f ft., sprinkled with 
lost üppressed hairs. Leaves SS l to 3 in. long, acute or 
ES coarsely toothed or nearly entire, narrowed at the base but scarcely 
` File, Flower-heads nearly $ in. eth solitary, on long axillary or 
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