Jloonia.] LXII. COMPOSITE. 541 
Pappus small, cup-shaped, usually ee bristles. Disk-achenes abortive. 
—Wollastonia procumbens, DO. Prod. v 
N. Australia. Palm Bay, Croker’s SÉ, cé [PRU Port Essington, Arm- 
strong. 
34. SPILANTHES, Linn. 
ot cle chaffy, very conical. Ray-florets fe male, ate, or sometimes 
tone.  Disk-florets small, hermaphrodite, entm Baoki. Anthers 
obtuse at the base. Style branches truncate. Achenes of the ray 3-angled, 
those of the disk flattened, the angles or margins usually ciliate. Pappus of 
2 or 3 short fine awns or bristles proceeding from the angles, sometimes 
Wanting —Herbs with opposite leaves. Flower-heads usually on long pe- 
send the ray yellow or white. 
genus is et dispersed over the tropical regions both of the New and the Old 
World. The tw ius ger extend into the Indian ger 
Flower-heads wi yellow EE c S icd (de g vest, D 
Flower-heads Wad without rays EE wv ca c Zë SC 
diflora, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1351. i. 185. yir ee 
liy i branched, glabrous or strigose-pubescent, site 1 to-2 ft. 
length. Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate-lanceolate lanceolate or rarely linear 
entire or with a few coarse teeth below the middle, 1 in. long, 3-nerved, 
glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs. Involucral on ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, scarcely 2 lines long. Ray-florets ligulate, yellow, twice as long 
a the involucre in the apral form but variable in size. Scales of the 
E broad and concave, as long as the disk-florets.  Bristles of the 
"ëm Eu thicker did but little uis than E cilia of the angles of 
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“an Zeile Dallachy ; Keppel Bay, Thozet ; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, 
Ke Aa Wales rus England, C. Stuart; Clarence river, Beckler ; Richmond river, 
i E "i E More glabrous ; achenes smaller with few or no cilia on the uie and the 
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p dene distinct i in habit, dra ad leaves, d wot s e conical usually larger flower-heads. We 
: "e received it also from the Indian Archipelago and the Philippine Islands. 
de tina, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 63. Stems from a procumbent or 
n nien base ascending to det ft. high, Lee or branched. Leaves 
2 9r oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, entire, rather thick, à to 2 or rarely 3 in. 
Ing Involueral bracts broad and thin, the margins often scarious and 
es of the receptacle broad. Ray-florets Ste wanting. Disk. 
