— Cassinia.) LXII. COMPOSITA. 585 
Leaves narrow-linear. Involucral bracts narrow, — ob- 
tuse, as long as the florets . 8. C. tenuifolia. 
Eos a or convex, dense, but much exceeding the upper 
Lo s mostly oblong, under $ in. long, glabrous ee imis 
volueral bracts broad, white or straw-e 4. C. denticulata. 
RS Jet: or linear, acute, "mostly 1 to 2 in. a gla- S 
brous and smooth above. 
kësst bracts white or wiel straw-colour. . . . . . B. C. longifolia. 
Involucral bracts bright ye 6. C. aurea. 
pe weed obtuse or - with ‘recurved points, tubercu- 
ricate or hispid above, very rarely nearly smooth . 7. C. aculeata. 
"fiw "eben al or not longer than Lei, loose or rather com 
pact. Leaves narrow-linear with small straight or conceal 
po 
Branches cottony-white. Leaf-points usually recurved . . . 8. C.levis. 
Branches and leaves nt or PT n Ee menge : 
usually straight . e . . . 9. C. quinquefaria. 
Panicles long and loo: 
Leaves parvow linear ; he ath-like, under 4 in. long. . . - . 10. C. arcua 
Leaves obovate o r oblong, fla flat, under 1 in. long QUIE C erect 
Panicles None dia ed to oblong spikes. Leaves very “small and 
rect. ets solitary or rarely 2 in the hea 12. CG Theodori. 
Tall ie yin ange flaccid leaves and —— loose e panicles Florets 
. 18. C. spectabilis. 
E. — dee DC. Prod. vi. 155, described from Sieber's specimen, n. 592, i 
Unknown character wail refer to C. denticulata, but. that De Candolle plates 
it in the ei with gare laminze to the ect bracts, which I have not seen in 
any Australian species.) 
l. C. leptocephala, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 138. A shrub, the branches 
as well as the foliage, densely scabrous-hirsute with short rigid hairs. 
crowded, narrow-linear, mostly above 2 in. long, 
margins, Flower-heads sessile en crowded in compact clusters, forming a 
very dense sessile corymb, 1 to 2 n. diameter, shorter than the last leaves. 
Involuere linear, about 3 lines leat the bracts very narrow, appressed, thinly 
searious, with yellow tips, not spreading. Florets 2 or rarely 8, with scales 
between them. P appus-bristles not numerous. 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, F. Mueller. 
2. C. compacta, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 18. A shrub, the branches inm 
under side of the leaves hoary with a very short close tomentum. Lea 
lanceolate, scarcely acute, mucronulate, the margins 
? at sessile corymb shorter 
coloured or p r e narrow, scarcely above 1} lines lo cts 
Een "rs scarious on the margins, shorter than the florets. Florets 4 or 
y5 
tM S. Was Mount Lindsay, on the borders of Queensland, at an elevation of 5000 
3. C. tenuifolia, Benth. A low bushy shrub, the branches and under 
side of the leaves white with a close but dense tomentum. Leaves rather 
