600 LXII. COMPOSITE. [Alhrizia. 
hemispherical, 3 to £ in. diameter, the bracts all subulate and woolly-ciliate. 
Ray-florets numerous, with ligule of 3 to 6 lines. Achenes longer than in 
A. australis, Pappus of 8 to 10 bristles, elegantly aere in the upper 
part.—Asteridia pue A. Gray in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 274; Tricho- 
stegia asteroides, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1851, ii. 81. 
ech Spas ia, Drummond, 5th Colt. mg n. 66. 
ella. More slender and less branched. Rayon narrow and more deeply 9 ` 
Se? elt and banks of Salt er "M azwel | 
stricta, Benth. In the original form apparently annual or biennial 
t. 
2 
with rigid, erect, simple or sparingly branched stems of 3 to ., very white 
with a close cottony wool x iom leaves petiolate and oblong; stem leaves 
few, small, narrow-linear, becoming glabrous on the upper side. Flower- 
heads terminal. Involucre hemispherical, l to $ in. diameter, the bracts very 
numerous, narrow-linear, woolly ciliate, the outer ones glandular, the es | 
ones with small coloured tips. Florets of the circumference female, not nu- 
merous, scarcely longer than those of the disk, with a + limb, but 
without any distinct ligula. Disk-florets very numerous. Pappus of 3 to 6 
white e briatas, elegantly plumose towards the en nd.—Asteridia gingen A. Gray 
in Hook. Ke Wm iv. 275 ; Chrysodiscus niveus, Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 460. 
W. Austr King George’s Sound and adjoining Loge Drummond. a. 32, 90, 
Preiss, n. 69, Se "Oldfield, and eastward to Lucky Bay, Marw 
Var. su, suffru ruticosa. A decumbent or divaricately idee EE with the white 
cottony branches of f the o original form, as well as the other characters, except that the d 
lucre: = cres a zs "ind " less woolly.—Lucky Bay, R. Brown ; Esperance Bay and far 
east wa) AXW 
to 4 in. long. Involucres hemispherical, 3 to 4 lines diameter, the be 
linear, almost filiform, plumose-ciliate, the inner ones ciliate hie the e 
only, with small glabrous coloured tips.  Florets very numerous, 
the involuere, a few of the outer ones female, but not ligulate nor 3 of 
the others. Achenes narrow, contracted under the pappus. Pappus vof lia 
4 bristles, shorter than the corolla and plumose towards the end. — Pane 
athrixioides, ond. and Muell. in Linnæa, xxv. 506. 
Victoria. Wimmera, 
S. Australia. Murray river sear Moorundee, Crystal Brook, and Lake Talbert f 
Mueller ; = Lincoln, Wilhelmi ; Vans and Streaky bays, Babba, 
alia, Roe; Marchison river, Oldfield. 
71. PODOTHECA, Cass. 
(Podospermum, Labill.; Pheenopoda, Cass. ; Lophoclinium, Endl.) 
Involucre iore conical or — the bracts eee b poe 4 
ceous, often very thin but not ierg cept the innermost op achent — 
Receptacle without scales, but retaining be persistent stalks of the A tib 1 
Florets all hermaphrodite, gien 5- toothed. Anthers with very S 
