533 LXII. COMPOSITAE. UFedelia. 
terminal peduncles. Outer bracts of the involucre lanceolate or oblong, 4 
or 5 lines long, inner ones smaller. . Ray-florets about 10 to 12, rather broad, 
half as long again as the involucre. Achenes flattened, with: a small denti- 
culate cup- -shaped puppes — Wight, Ic. t. 110 
Queensland. Fast coast, 4. Cunningham, a E specimen with a single flower- 
head, the achenes of andy 1 have been esie to examine and therefore the identity is iu 
some measure doubtful. The species is enti in India from Ceylon and the Peninsula to 
the Archipelago and northward to South Chi 
. W. urticifolia, DC. in Wight, Contrib. 18 and Prod. v.539. Erec 
or ah d at the base, often 2 to 3 ft. high, more or less hirsute, e 
hairs not very rigid. Leaves be give or ‘ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
slightly serrate, rather thin, often 3 to 4 in. long, narrowed or rounded at 
‘the base, the petiole rather short. Flower-heads small, on rather slender 
peduncles, the lower ones shorter than the leaves, the upper ones longer but 
scarcely paniculate. Involuere ovoid, the outer Geen (about 5) acute or 
acuminate, 3 to 6 lines long, the inner ones shorter. Ray-florets about 8, 
rather large ; disk-florets not very numerous. Mech somewhat compressed 
with acute edges, hairy at ^ top, with a small denticulate cup- -shaped pap- 
pus, one of the teeth rarely dais into a bristle.— Wight, Ic. t. 1106; 
Uu: deese DC. Pro 
N. Australia. Grassy Se Wie Gë island, “i EE islands of the 
Gulf of Gemen? R. Brown. The species is frequent in 
3. W. spilanthoides, P Muell. Fragm. v. 64. Very scabrous. Leaves 
T shortly HAAS ie roadly lanceolate to almost linear, mostly acu- 
and entire, 2 to 4 in. ings Peduncles rigid, long and solitary or with a 
second shorter one. Involucres hemispherical, smaller than in JF. biflora, 
the bracts rather numerous, nearly equal, the outer ones ovate or ovate-lan- 
ceolate, scarcely acuminate, the inner ones narrower, all shorter than the 
florets. Ray-florets 10 to 12 or even more, rather large. Achenes more or 
less flattened, often pubescent at the top. Pappus a minute denticulate cup, 
occasionally emitting a short ehh bristle, but the whole often incon, 
Käre: when the achéne is ripe. 
Queensland. Port — M OUR Rodd's Bay, 4. Cunningham ; A. 
Bideill; Burdekin, B urnett, and Brisbane rivers and Newcastle SE: F. Mueller ; 
in — Bay and ene rg j Fitzroy Ke Bowma 
pem Wales. Macleay river, Herb. F. Mue aller, 
: In s e specimens the leaves are few and all nien and the flower-heads sma", 
these are Pe Dee old branches or from plants grown in a dry season or locality. In 
_from Keppel Bay and Broad Sound, R. Brown, the pts are more disti net. 
4. W. verbesinoides, F. Muell. Herb. „Erect, rigid, very 
brous, especially the foliage, with appressed rigid hairs. teira petiolate, 
oblong: lanceolate or ovate- “lanceolate, obtuse, slightly toothed or entire, 
wed at the base, 1 to 3 in. long. Flower-heads shortly pedunculate, © 
"ce terminal ERC Involucre ovoid-globular, the 
equal, ovate-oblong, obtuse. Scales of the receptacle obtuse. 
few and small. Achenes flattened or aen ed, the edges «d 
- winged, tuberculate, with 1, 2, or 3 unequal short mio? Geier? at 
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