608 LXII. COMPOSITAE. [ Leptorhynchus. 
wards the end.—Annual or perennial herbs or undershrubs, more or less 
cottony or cepe iti) Leaves alternate, entire. Flower-heads 
pedunculate, the outer scarious involucral bracts often ee along the 
peduncle. Florets almost always longer than the involucre 
The genus is limited to Australia. It is scarcely distinct from Helichrysum, differing in 
the MN bracts with more EES arious tips, neither ere nor i ger nor 
opaque, an aie Serie de » en hene at the top, which c 
elipterum 
Aden contracted at the top, but not distinctly beaked. Perennials 
Pappus-bristlos equally mg — denticu 
ral Ka ery thin sim scarious, passing into the 
exin ous apaza f the eeng l. L. squamatus. 
Outer involucral aiu with NT scarious s woolly- ciliate margin jue 
and dark centres . 9. L. panetioides. 
Pappus-bristles more barbellate or almost plumose towards the end. 
Outer involueral brae ts with dark tips and woolly scarious mar- nes 
passi to scales on the r aia 3. L. tenuifolius. 
Involueral bracts who oly scarious, with woolly-cilia te margins j 
Va ruptly distinct from the few leafy bracts on the peduncl 4. L. ambiguus. 
Achenes more rari though sometimes shortly beaked. Set : 
exce 
Involucral id "i AGREES cute. 
hee ucral bracts small, very regie: all ciliate with Pd 
a 
lower-heads 2 to 3 ^ ines lon 5. L. pulchellus. 
Outer involucral bracts very thin an transparent, inner ones 
with rigid glandular sien Ee e 5 to 6 lines long . 6. Z. elongatus. 
E scht nd broad, obt Es 
nnual. Involueral bracts eiliat 7. L. Waitzia. 
zome creeping. Inv eeng ge not ciliate, the scarious E 
tips broad and almost spreading . . 8. L. linearis. 
bracts. 
meter, the 
oolly- 
4-toothed. Achenes very shortly contracted at the top. Pappus MK 
cohering in a ring at the base, shortly barbellate, those of the female foret 
fee DC. Prod. vi. 160; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 208; F 
dubi t (DC.); DC. Prod. vi. 160; 
uoum, Lass, ; Leptorhynchus hemisphericus, DC. Prod. vi. 77? 
en and Z. rri ge Mis in Linnea, xiv. 317, and probably also 
