| Gnephosis.] LXII. COMPOSITA. 571 
Pappus a cylindrical cup toothed or jagged and nearly half as long as the 
corolla, usually adhering to and falling off with the thickened base of the 
torolla.— Trichanthodium skirrophorum, Sond. and Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 490. 
N.S. Wales. Dry Lake, near Menindie, Victorian Expedition. 
Victoria. Murray river, F. Mueller ; Wimmera, Dallachy. 
S. Australia. Cudnaka, F. Mueller ; towards Spencer’s Gulf, Waterhouse. 
W. Australia. Dirk Hartog’s Island, Milne. 
This has fewer and more deciduous outer bracts than most species, but it is much nearer 
ters. 
A 
allied to Gnephosis than to Angianthus in habit as well asin most charac 
tending ones, but without the yellow appendage. Receptacle small, convex 
or obovoid. Partial heads 2-flowered, very shortly stipitate and usually 2 
Within the same subtending braet. Bracts scarcely woolly, narrow, with a 
| stort broad yellow deciduous appendage, 4 or 5 outer ones of each involucre 
_ tid the subtending one narrower and more persistent than the 4 or 5 inner 
tery deciduous ones. Pappus cup-shaped, as long as the slender part of the 
y foret, slightly toothed or jagged, falling off with the corolla.—Cyathopappus 
- Mephosioides or Cephalosorus gnephosioides, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 158. 
ales. Near Menindie, Darling river, Victorian Expedition. 
BG leptoclada, Benth. A slender, erect, corymbosely branched 
nual, nearly glabrous. Leaves linear, almost filiform. Clusters of flower- 
_ Mads depressed-globular, 3 to 4 lines diameter, surrounded by a few narrow- 
blong leafy bracts or floral leaves shorter than the florets. Receptacle rather 
S , Convex. Partial heads 2-flowered, very shortly stipitate. Involucral 
ts all searious and deciduous, with a small yellow deciduous appendage, 
ford outer ones (1 subtending ?) narrow and about 4 inner rather broader 
Te, Pappus cylindrical, cup-shaped, slightly jagged.— Cephalosorus lepto- 
"adus, F, Muell. Fragm. iii. 158. 
Silla iain, 
] Well, Murchison river, Oldfield, a single speci- 
tten. 
p When examined in a better state 
| Së, Australia. places, Barrel Wi 
Lë ^m m Herb. F, Mueller, the inflorescence very ro 
| "Wat prove to be a variety of G. cyathopappe. 
| n 1. G. arachnoidea, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1851, i. 189. Aat 
“ect, corymbosely-branched annual, usually 6 in. to 1 ft. high, glabrous, ex- 
heads 2-flowered, very shortly stipitate and sometimes 2 or 3 w 
E bract. Involucral bracts oblong-cuneate, 
, mner ones, which have a rather larger lamina. Pappus none apparent at 
pe of Bowerin -Nonii effusus, A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ, iii, 
