610 LXII. COMPOSITE. [Leptorhynchus. 
lower leaves narrow-oblong, obtuse or mucronate.— Helichrysum semicalvum, F. Muell. 
Fr@m. ii. 156. 
N.S. Wa Darling river, Panton ; Barrier range, Victorian Erpediti 
les. 
. Australia. Flinders ra nge, F. Mu eller; M'Donnel ranges, M‘Doualt Stua 
The involucre and florets are very nearly those of Z. pete. ^ 
beaked and the characters are nearly those of Helichrysum, sect. Chrysocephalum ; the 
SEN however (of which I have seen but few ripe) appear to be distinetly contracted at 
the 
ulchellus, F. Muell Fragm. i i. 53. An erect corymbosely- 
branched annual, rarely above 6 in. high, the lower part of the stem some 
times hard so as to appear woody. Leaves linear, acute. 
small and rather numerous on filiform pedun 
nate or almost hemispherical, about 3 lines rene ii the bracts imbricate in 
1l coloured tips, the 
many rows, with scarious ciliate margins and very sma 
inner ones stipitate. Florets longer than the involucre, the outer female s ones 
ew and slender. chenes contracted into s short but distinct pun ap- 
pus-bristles barbellate from the base, 2 or 3 to the ac Se 
florets, 4 or 5 to the others.—Sond. in ae xxv. 500 ; Doratolepis: ue 
cheta, Schlecht. in Linnea, xx. 593. 
N.S. Wales. Near — ad F. Mue 
ictoria. Avoca river, F. M. Zeite? e chy. ^y gulls, 
S. Australia. Dr ry places e the Murray river to St. KE "s and Spencer $ 
F. Mueller and others 
. L. elongatus, DC. Prod. vi. 160. Apparently Gs 
with a hard tufted ong the stems ascending or erect, often 
Flower-heads rather large, the peduncles bearing a few tran te? 
GA into the outer erecta saben tnvoluere one. 4 to 
achene is ripe. Pappus of numerous fine capi illary bristles Hon 
Tasm. i. 208; Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 502. : 
ni 
. Wales. Blue Mountains, near Bathurst, 4. Cunningham ; Argyle cov T 
Skipton, 
Near Melbo 1 er, Robertson; near 
Whan . Wimmera, pip urne, F. Mueller; Glenelg riv 
Tasmania. Not uncommon in various parts of the colony, éi D. Hi 
S. iMi alia. Mes river, sa ad Poretin ranges, Tonun a, F. poit SE 
Var. peduncul e bra dnd and leafy at the wu the we in DC. 
reduced to long eats E per pois the scale-like bracts.— L. us, 
v Prod AT ytidanthe scabra, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 63 ; Leptorhyn 
r Cun- 
a. King Paget: Sound and — districts, R. Brow” d LV gres 
Pag and others; Drummond. 3rd. Coll. n. 86, 4th Coll. n. 180; eastward 
Bight, Marwell ; reiege river, Oldfield. 
7. L. Waitzia, Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 501. A loosely woolly-pupes* v 
annual, the stems usually erect and under 6 in., rarely attaining nearly 
