590 LXII. COMPOSITAE. [Humea. 
linear-subulate, acute, keeled or triquetrous, under 1 in. long. Co orymbs of 
flower-heads usually smaller than in the other species. Involucre straw- 
, about " lines e Florets gives in each head.—Cassinia 
R. Br. 
in a compact corymb. reda about 9 Dë long, shrew colada or the 
ee bracts white towards the end. Florets 3 or 4.—F. Muell. Pl. Viet. 
; Heckeria (zuwee? a Muell. in pd Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 45, 
eg in Hook. Kew Jou 
Dry Pim on See Creek, Upper Murray and Snowy rivers, F. 
vi 
Mueller. 
61. PITHOCARPA, Lindl. 
Involuere turbinate, the bracts imbricate, the outer ones small and ap- 
pressed, the inner with coloured radiat ing lamin. Receptacle flat, without 
scales: Florets numerous, all hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed. Anthers 
with fine tails. Style-branches truncate. Achenes angular, without any 
pappus.— Erect branching annual. Leaves alternate, entire. Flower-heads 
in a loose erect panicle, 
The genus is Ee to a single species, endemic in W. Australia, differing from Humea 
in habit a and involu 
Pe Dee Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 23. An nual, 
Se long slender but rigid paniculate stems of 1 to 2 ft., die pert 
and often nearly leafless. Leaves c iefly in the lower part of the stem, 
linear, soft, the upper ones very few, small and distant. Flower-heads on ` 
a 
ing down the summit of the peduncle 
obtuse glabrous: tips, the inner ones with gradually increasing white spread- 
ing lamine, the innermost nearly 3 lines long. orets small. Achenes 
papilose —Steetz in Pl, mme. i . 445; P. major, Steetz, |. c. 446. Sie" 
ustralia. King icts, R. Brown and 
a thence to Swan veis T en $4. 169, and Sth k Coll. Gë 
E eiss, SE 27, - others ; "Moore river, Oldjield ; and eastward to the Mount Barren 
nge, 
“The plat va varies a in the size of the flower-heads, which in some of Cldfield’s ZS 
n than in the P. en of Steetz, whilst in the slender pain 
tinguished a as P. tidia Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 23, the involucres are not 2 lines pie 
without the laminre, which ar KEE pe 3 ons long. I find no other differen 
intermediate sizes are num 
62. ERIOCHLAMYS, Sond. and Muell. 
Involuere broadly ovoid or almost globular, the bracts imbricate, the outer 
ee Bel uhr I a er 
