L.) 
- Involucre 
| of few (in the Australian species about 5 
2 Sc Den Dm chaffy. Ra s: „florets about as many as invo ucra 
EE E E ENEE Ee En E E e i er aaa EE EE 
Wedelia.] LXII. COMPOSITAE. 539 
base proceeding from the angles, and in the centre a small cup-shaped pap- 
pus occasionally emitting 1 or 2 small ‘bristles but sometimes quite incon- 
E" us. 
md F. Mueller; Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown; Finke river, M‘Douall 
Suerte, Expedition 
5. W. biflora, DC. in Wight, Contrib. Bot. Ind. 18. A straggling 
half-scandent Air Ze perennial, sometimes nearly glabrous, but more fre- 
quently slightly hoary or even quite white with closely appressed rigid j^ 
especially on the under side of the leaves. Leaves petas from br ron 
ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the lowest sometimes 3 o in. long and v 
broadly cordate, the others usually smaller and often dn at the base, A 
acute or acuminate, slightly toothed, 3-nerved. Flower-heads most frequently 
3 on short or long ‘peduncles or sometimes more in a loose corymb.  Invo- 
lueral bracts nearly equal in about 3 rows.  Ray-florets 10 to 12 or some- 
- times more, the ligules oblong, entire or minutely 3-toothed, 2 to 3 lines 
3 
long. Achenes obtuse at the edges, without any pappus or with 1 to 
small slender deciduous Peu AE onia biflora, DC. Prod. v. 546; 
Ma le. t. 1108; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 183, with the SEN there ad- 
E. onlari and JF. Forserigua, DC. Pro 
tralia. Islands of the ae of Carpentaria, R. Fer e Goulburn island, 
M 
4. Domin h K y, Tho 
mai? Inda of of ford “Straits, Henne; Port Curtis and Lizard Islands, M*Gil- 
lir; d Bay of Inlets, oam and Solander ; Eise Bay, Dallachy ; Brisbane river, 
Moreton Bay, F. Mue. 
N. S. Wales. Ge Jackso vod R. Brown and others; eg England, C. Stuart; 
Clarence and Macleay rivers, Ze? ; Lord Howe 8 Island, Miln 
This species is widely spre East India, ES cubed to east tropical Africa, 
and eastward to the Arle seit south Chin 
- 6. W. asperrima, Benth. Coarse and erect, 1 to 2 ft. high, but appa- 
rently annual, very ORES: especially the foliage, with rigid appressed hairs. 
ves petiolate, from oblong- lanceolate to HEAR mostly acumi- 
hate, 2 to 3 in. long, irregularly toothed, narrowed at the base. Flower- 
herbal, i in a loose terminal leafy panicle on rigid vir viicp longer than 
the leaves, Involucre nearly hemispherical, the bracts rather numerous, aeumi- 
tate, the outer ones 4 to 5 lines long, the inner € scarcely shorter. Scales 
receptacle very acute and rigid. Ray-florets 10 to 12 or even more, 
. Achenes with obtuse edges, not at all gäer and without any 
E ollastonia asperrima, Dene. Herb. Timor, „Descr. 86, and DC. 
y. 547 Q), from the character given. 
Victoria river and Sturt’s — F. Mueller. If the identification 
ustralia. 
: - Kn 8 plant is corregt it is also in Tim 
33. MOONTA, Am. 
(Pentalepis, F. Muel 
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