eo 
584 LXII. COMPOSITAE, [ 4mmobium. 
tacle rigid, slightly concave, mucronate or awns of the pappus-cup 
very variable, usually very small—DC. Prod: vi. 153; Gaudich. in Freye. 
Voy. 467. t. 90 (4. spathulatum on the plate); Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 48. 
N. S. Wales. Hunter's River, R. Brown ; sandy plains near Bathurst and on the 
Macquarrie, 4. Cunningham, Fraser ; Cardington, Ramsay ; New England, Beckler. 
2. A. : 
headed stems of 1 to 2 ft., loosely woolly as well as the under side of the 
leaves. Leaves chiefly radical, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed into a petiole, 
ir, 3 to 
of the receptacle very broad, rigidly scarious, truncate and jagged at the end. 
Florets numerous. Anthers with rather long fine tails. Style-lobes ig 
penicillate. Pappus-cup with awns usually rather longer and more rigi 
than in A. alatum. 
N. S. Wales. Near Nangas, M‘Arthur. 
LJ 
59. CASSINIA, R. Br. 
(Achromolena, Cass.; Apalochlamys and Rhynea, DC.) 
without any or, in species not Australian, with small radiating lamine. Re- 
: h : : CSS : t the 
culate capillary bristles, in a single row and slightly cohering 1n a ring 7" 
base.—Shrubs or rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, entire. Flower-heads 
d 
Besides the Australian species, which are endemic, there are four from New ae er 
one from S, Africa (RÀynea, DC.), all differing slightly from the Australian - in 
few scales may indeed be occasionally found among the central florets of a few spe 
Helichrysum, es 
florets. 
racts 
"1 i brous- 
v Sa Lom e egen ee 
Involucres oblong, the bracts without coloured tips. Florets 
usually 4. Leaves smooth above. : 
Leaves lanceolate. Involucral bracts thinly scarious, very ob- 
g cla. 
tuse, shorter than the florets . 2. C. compa 
