Aagianthus. | * LXII. COMPOSITA. 565 
a Ce E "A ay ume | 
keeled and 2 flat besides the subtending one. Florets 2, 5-toothed, much 
thiekened, bulb-like and truncate at the base. n 
W. Australia. Sharks’ Bay and Dirk Hartog’s Island, abundant, Milne. 
9. A. Cunninghamii, Benth. A low much-branched bushy shrub or 
from the rest of the genus. eaves spreading or recurved, from oblong- 
cuneate and under + in. long to linear and above 4 in., all obtuse. Clusters 
Re 
of 2keeled and 2 flat bracts. Florets usually 2, 5-merous, thickened and 
— Dulb-like at the base. Pappus a minute ring falling off with the corolla.— 
— Skirrophorus Cunninghamii, DC. Prod. vi. 150, and in Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 
51; Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 438 ; Zriocladium pyramidatum, Lindl. Swan Riv. 
W. Australia. Swan River; very abundant, Fraser, Drummond, 8rd Coll. n. 125, 
Preiss, n.30; Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th. Coll. n. 150 or 159; Sharks 
| Bay and Dirk Hartog's Island, very common, A. Cunningham, Milne. 
.' closely imbricate at the base, spreading but herbaceous at the tips. Recep- 
3 tacle c Partial involucres exceedingly deciduous, flattened, of about 3 
inner complicated bracts often woolly towards the top and l or perhaps 2 or 
3 outer narrower flat ones.  Florets solitary. Fappus cup-shaped, deeply 
Jagged and often oblique, usually coming off with the corolla.— Cephalosorus 
` Phyllocephalus, A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 152 ; Piptostemma carpe- 
` Sides, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1851, i. 192; Cephalosorus órevipapposus, F. 
| Muell. Fragm. iii. 159. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 200; Murchison river, Oldfield. 
. Qual of a few inches or wh luxuriant above 3 foot. ves linear. 
| Clusters of flower-heads nearly globular, closely surrounded by linear leaves 
often lanceolate at the base and much longer than the cluster, with a 
. Searious empty braets within them. Receptacle conical. Part 
E of 2 concave and about 4 flat narrow-spathulate transparent bracts. ` 1 
S s -merous, slightly thickened at the base. Pappus of "n : » Payline 
Scales terminating ina si t quite so long as the floret.——£ s 
inating in a simple awn not qui 62; Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 436 ; 
qus micropoides, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 
| * Milaginoides, Steetz, Le, 431. dr 
i o, n. 36 and 37. 
pe Ri, deum € 5 mmondii, but is readily distin- 
t i Preiss’ imens, n. 36, the pappus scales withont the awn 
ate early half af lor as e ege jagged, in n. 37 they are much shorter 
: More fringed and the awn is shorter. Huegel’s specimens are intermediate. 
