560 LXII. COMPOSITA. [ Myriocephalus, 
with a close cotton, the flowering ones simple, erect, above 1 ft. long. Leaves 
linear or linear-lanceolate, half stem-clasping, somewhat coriaceous with 
distinct. Clusters of flower-heads hemispherical, i to $ in. diameter. 
General involucre of very numerous bracts in many rows, a few small narrow 
herbaceous and woolly, all the e with white “obovate spreading lamine 
1 to 14 lines long, forming a very conspicuous ray to the clusters. Partial 
— mostly 2- flowered, the "bes bracts about 5 or 6 besides the sub- 
ending one, usually very narrow without scarious margins. chenes 
gege or nearly so, vm as well as the whole partial flower-heads, appa- 
rently glutinous. Pappu of several exceedingly fine bristles, nearly as long 
rolla, simple but bearing usually at their tips 1 to 4 little globular 
transparent bodies (glands ?). 
WV. Australia. Between Moore and Niki rivers, utra] 6th Coll. n. 158. 
white scarious tips passing into the involueral Diets. Clusters of LE 
heads hemispherical, attaining 1 in. diamete even more. General invo- 
lucre of numerous bracts in several rows, hier Gris at the base, with white 
ovate spreading laminze fully 2 lines long, forming a very conspicuous ray to 
the cluster. Partial heads 5- to 8- flowered or ‘the central one with more 
numerous florets; the involucral bracts exceedingly thin and transparent, 
fringed at the end, about 2 of the outermost of each involucre as well as the 
subtending one contracted into a short rigid midrib, the others eher 
from the ‘bas ase and very broad. Achenes densely clothed with very long 
woolly hairs. Pappus of 15 to 20 unequal bristles, slightly ie? and 
ciliate or plumose with short hairs. — Polycalymm el beer F. Muell. and 
Sond. in Linnza, xxv. 494; F. Muell. Pl. Vict. t. 4 
- S. Wales. Lachlan and Darling rivers to the Aet range and Mare Creek, 
Victorian = other Erpeditions; ; on the Murray and Murrumbidgee, F. 
urray river, F. Mueller. 
S. dnt tralia. Muay river, F, Mueller; between Lake Gairdner and Devonport 
Range, Babbage’s s Expedition 
50. ANGIANTHUS, Wendl. 
(Siloxerus, Zaæġill, ; Tee 1 and Phyllo- 
ylus, SE Styloncerus, Spreng. ; Bt mate 
gen Ben Ge rophoru DO; A Chrysoc Mme Endl. ; oclad m, Lind; 
eene Ster 3 Pi mich Epitriche and "Gam ozygis, dures ziele 
yalochlamys pi Dithyrostegia, 4. Ce: Katapat F. Muel "e 
any-fl 
Hing compressed, of few scarious transparent bracts, “the We one 
; two lateral ones SE and keeled or concave, and sometimes 
