“aitzia. | LX1I. COMPOSITE. 637 
i Eo Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 64; DC. Prod. vi. 161 ze Waitzia citrina, 
* Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 454, and JF. sulphurea, Steetz, l. c. 453 (with the in- 
Eee. more or less yellow) ; W. brevirostris, Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 451 
(with short beaks to the achenes and white invo oluc cres). 
W. Australia. Swan River = EE edens Drummond, \st Coll. n. 336, 
337; 5th 7 oll. Suppl. n. 65; ge 6, 7, 9 ede and others; Murchison river, 
Oldfield ; epu 8 range, Deche Se Salt t rive rs, Mat 
eci 
Helipterum Cotul , that it is is only to be distinguished br the b f the achen and by the 
e ripe achene, but in general it is short at the time of flowering and lengthens conside- 
rably afterwards. 
Lr eon ee n Steets i in Pl. Preiss. i, 450. An erect simple annual. 
(Sonder). Wioktiitiesdé 4 in the upper axils on peduncles longer than the 
. leaves, forming a loose corymb or short raceme. Involucre described as 
the outer bracts white and appressed, the inner row with short ee 
laminz of a brown-yellow (Gaudichaud), all pure white "(Sonde r). Achene 
with a slender beak much longer than themselves. Pappus-bristles inel 
barbellate.— F'iraya podolepis, Gaudich. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 466. 
Leptorhynchus podolepis, DC. Prod. vi. 160 ; Sond. in Linnea, xxv. 501. 
. Australia. Sharks’ Py ( Gaudichoud), I lave seen no plant answering to the 
description and figure. . It seems t o partake i iu some respects of the characters of W. ve teet- 
na, in others of W. paniculata. Souder, who saw a specimen at Berlin, says zë 
H 8 w 
. W. paniculata, F. Muell. Herh. An erect woolly-tomentose an- 
hu rarely exceeding 6 in. Leaves SEXE or the upper ones 
linear, soft. Flower-heads nearly sessile on very short axillary branches, 
forming an oblong een leafy panicle or raceme. _ Involucre Hees ovoi id 
20, small. Achenes strongly papillose, with a short slender beak. Pappus- 
bristles 12 to 15, plumose.— Pferochete eege Steetz in Pl. Preiss. i. 456. 
.W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown and others, and thence t o Swan 
River, meis bth Coll. n. 358, Preiss, n. 35, and obere; Marinaa HNO, Old. 
H 
Ti. HE DC. 
(Ptero DC.; rr and Geisen Lindl.; Anisolepis and Hyalos 
ES Triptilodiscus, Zurez. ; phar Monencyauthes and eieiei, 4. 
; Duttonia and 2 Cassiniola, y Muell.) 
SUME from broadly hemispherical to narrow-ovoid or cylindrical, the 
bracts imbricate in ën rows, either entirely or only their lamine scarious 
s 
5. W. 
Leaves linear, 1 to 2 in. long, hoary- tomentose (Gaudichaud) or glabrous - 
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