562 LXII. COMPOSITA. 
43. SOLIVA, Ruiz and Pav. 
(Gymnostyles, Juss.) 
m , 
— Small diffuse herbs. Leaves alternate, usually finely dissected. Flower- 
heads sessile. 
all genus, apparently limited to the warmer regions of America, except where intro- 
duced with cultivation. 
. themifolia, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 102. Stems 
very much shorter than the leaves, forming a dense tuft. Leaves petiolate, 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. in: 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, Woolis, but only in cultivated ground, and probably 
troduced from S. America, R. Bro 
EX SUNT 
n | 
. duced into prominent angles or short horns. The pedunculate species referred to the genus , 
S. rygmea, H, B.and K. (including S. Mericana, DC., and perhaps S. pedicellata, 
Pay.), does not appear to differ from a true Cotula. 
44. MYRIOGYNE, Less. 
(Centipeda, Lour. ; Spheromorphea, DC. partly.) 
Involucral bracts in about 2 rows, nearly equal, scarious at the edges s 
ceptacle flat or slightly convex, without scales. — Florets of the giereg 
n many rows, female, with short tubular corollas ; disk-florets hermaph 
fertile, broadly campanulate, 4-lobed. Anthers short, obtuse at the bas 
Style-lobes very short, obtuse or truncate. Achenes not at all or - e 
compressed, with 3 or 4 very prominent obtuse ribs or angles, ite) 
pappus.—Herbs with alternate usually toothed leaves. Flower-heads 
sessile, lateral or in a short terminal raceme. of the 
A small genus, chiefly S. Asiatic, with one species from extratropical S. America. ie 
two Australian species, one is the common Indian one, the other is endemic. The gen 
