BEE d ET TONS 
Cassinia. | LXII. COMPOSITA. 589 
Tasmania. Northern parts of the island and islands of Bass's Straits, J. D. Hooker 
and others. 
S. Australia. Kangaroo Island, F. Mueller. 
60. HUMEA, Sm. 
(Calomeria, Vent.; Heeckeria, F. Muell.) 
Inyolucre oblong, the bracts imbricate, scarious. Receptacle small, with- 
out scales. Florets very few or solitary, herma aphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed. 
Anthers with fine, sometimes minute tails. Style-branches truncate. Achenes 
narrow, without any pappus.—Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, quite 
entire. Flower-heads small and numerous in a loose terminal panicle or in 
compact corymbs. 
The genus is limited to Australia, the habit is that of Cassinia, from which it differs in 
the absence of’ pappus and of receptacle-scales. 
Flower-heads in a lar, rge as poe drooping panicle. pce 
bracts thin and scariou 1. H. elegans. 
Bechet in ge retin inédite “bracts rigid or : petal- 
Glabrous or r glutinous, 
Leaves t obtuse. Florets usually 3 — - es : H. cassiniacea. 
Leaves ecled, acute. Florets usually solitary . . . 8. H. punctulata. 
Pubescent or tomentose. Leaves with revolute margins icu i H. o zothamnoides. 
l. H. elegans, Sin. Exot. Bot. t. 1. A robust erect biennial, attaining 
5 or 6 ft. or more, glandular- beni or nearly glabrous, strongly sc cented. 
Lower leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acuminate, stem-clasping or decur- 
rent at the base, 6 to 10 in. long, rugose and sca rous-pubescent but green 
about 3 lines long, of a brown-red or pink k, the bracts very thin and scarious, 
With small ones continued along the peduncles. Florets 3 or 4. Achenes 
glandular but otherwise glabrous.—DC. Prod. i. 158; F. Muell. Fragm. P 
17; Calomeria amaranthoides, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls and geg SC 
Victoria. Tambo, Monkey Creek, Snowy River, F. Mueller; Victoria ranges, 
mt. íi 
H. cassiniacea, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 11. An erect shrub of 3 or 
4 n » glandular-viscid and strongly scented, otherwise glabrous. 
linear, semiterete, obtuse, in some “specimens rarely exceeding j m., m others 
nearly 1 in. long, clustered in the axils. Flower-heads very nume 
very compact corymb of 2 to 3 in. darneter: Involucres white, about 2 lines 
long, the bracts narrow but obtuse, the inner ones almost as long as the 
florets. Florets usually 3. Achenes slightly fusiform, glabrou us.— Heckeria 
cassinieeformis, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc Vict. i. 45 ; in Linnaa, xxv. 406 ; 
and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 156. 
S. Australia. Port Lincoln, pr R. Brown, 
3. H. punctulata, F. Muell. Fragm. . 137. An erect shrub or 
Undershrub, with virgate branches, wies but otherwise glabrous. Leaves 
Wilhelmi and others. 
