556 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Elachanthus. 
slightly pubescent especially under the inflorescence. Leaves small, narrow- 
linear. Involucres at first cylindrical, at length turbinate, 2 to 24 lines long. 
Female florets about 5 to 9, about as long as the involucre at the time of 
ine or more. Sterile florets fewer and rather shorter. Achenes of the ray 
densely silkv-villous. Pappus scales 12 to 20, narrow-lanceolate, acute, en- 
tire or slightly denticulate, about as long as the achene. 
N.S. Wales. Darling river, Victorian Erpedition. 
S. Australia. Dry hills, Akaba and Cuduaka, F. Mued/er. 
48. ISOETOPSIS, Turcz. 
the flower-heads small and densely tufted within the grass-like radical leaves. 
The genus is limited to a si gle species, endemic in Australia. Notwithstanding the foliage, 
the affinity is evident with Cotula and Myriogyne. 
l. I. , 
almost stemless densely-tufted plant, the numerous small flower-heads sessile 
a. Avoca river, F. Mueller. 
Ss. Australia. Murray serub, F. Mueller. 70 
W. Aus Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 207, 5th Coll. n. 382, 390, and Suppl. n. T^^ 
