Waitzia.] LXII. COMPOSITA. 635 
barbellate or plumose.—Herbs, usually annual. Leaves alternate, a 
Flower-heads in terminal corymbs, or rarely in oblong oe racemes. 
of the involucral bracts usually sertatgacilinte at the- bas 
The genus is limited to Australia. ^ is closely allied to E EE 
and Helipterum, ten from ‘the first in the involuere and hab the very long beak to 
he achene in some species, and in the ie ose pappus in ot ers; p fon m Helichrysum 
and Helipterum in deg beaked réng Steetz found no tails to CZ anthers; 1 have found 
Being; fine ones in all the species. 
Involucre Sit Terum: — the Da SCH imbricate 
or spreading, the outer passing gradually into the inuer. Beak 
eee waer very long. Pappus-bristles due or r barbellate 
only. 
a 
GH bast (yellow white or pink) narrow and acutely — 
ter ones Genee along the peduncle. Seal 
com ia l. W. corymbosa. 
due | bracts obtuse « i acute, not acuminate, rarely a any on ‘the 
e, usually w few floral lea 
Ze ucres le distinctly steel the florets. Co- 
rymbs com . W. aurea. 
cd white or pink, seareely exceeding the florets. Co. 
1 rym : 3. W. nivea. 
.. Involuere bicis. hemispherical, about t$) d s üiamets er. eh of x 
___ the achene short or lon ng. Pappus-bristles Ho barbella 4. W. Steetziana. 
chen 
2 KA nearly globular, the inner row of bracts more e distil 
; radiating than e others. Pow bristles plumose 
D Deeg long. Beak much longer than the achene. . . . . 5. W. podolepis. 
Peduncles short. och much shorter than the achene . . . . 6. W. paniculata. 
3 corymbosa, Wendl. Coll. Pl. ii. 18. t. 42, not of Steelz. An 
i erect annual of 1 to 2 ft. dee MPs or goe but scarcely woolly. 
- leaves linear, the lower ones often 2 to 3 i ong, the margins revolute 
$ 3 or 4 lines long, the outer with gradually shorter broader claws and smaller 
| "umint passing gradually into small scales more or less descending on the 
| Peduncle, 2 or 3 innermost rows of bracts with linear broader scarious claws 
- Tolucres,  Achenes roduced into a slender beak several times longer than 
_ the achene itself, Pappus-bristles fine and slightly scabrous, CSR united 
E at the base, — Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5443 ; JF. acuminata, Steetz n Pl. Preiss. 
E ^ Regel, Garten. t. 401; W. discolor, Turez. in Bull. Mies 1851, i. 
Victoria. Wimmera and Murray river, Dallachy. 
on a Pine forests and scrub to the N.E. of Lake Gairdner, F. Mueller ; Ge 
Ww. River, Drummond, lst dar? 4th Coll., n. 198, Preiss; Kal- 
m. Murray, a: Md s. De rivers, Oldfield ; Salt Creek, Mazwe 
ue dland* s an excellent Paler de x the pink variety, m 8 cin the pen 
