650 LXII. COMPOSITAE. [ Helipterum. 
Victoria. à ten py vm Grampians, Serra and Victoria ranges, F. Mueller ; 
Wimmera, Dal WR KT 
S. Austr a Sg Bugle Ra a near Gawler Town, F. Mueller. 
W. Australia, Ces? béi Coll. Suppl. n. 66. 
30. Hi. dimorpholepis, Benth. An annual with erect or ascending 
branching stems, green, with a few long hairs, but scarcely any wool. Leaves 
linear, rather broad, $ to lin long. Flower-heads small, sessile within a few 
ous tips not spreading. Receptacle conical. Florets rather numerous, ex- 
ceeding the involucre, a few of the outer ones female. Achenes glabrous. 
Pappus of about 3 or 4 plumose- ciliate bristles, more or less flattened and 
scale-like, the outer achenes, especially those of the female florets, often with- 
out any pappus, and the innermost Sea? abortive.—Dimorpholepis australis, 
A. Ge €— ourm. iv. 227 ; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 856; Triptilodiscus 
s, Turcz. in Bull, Mose. 1851, ii. 66 ; Duttonia ‘sessiliceps, F. Muell. 
in ‘inne xxv. 410. 
N.S. Wales. Port Se F. Melle; Blue Mountains, beyond Berrima, Woolls ; 
Nangas, ny "Arthur ; New England, C. Stu 
Victoria. Murray river, saed am, Mout M‘Tvor, F. Mueller ; Firy Creek, Whan. 
S. Australia. Rocky Creek, F. M 
wW. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. Siet n. 54. 
78. RAOULIA, Hook. f. 
(Merope, Wed.) ^ 
Baachen ovoid campanulate or hemispherical, the bracts imbricate 1n 
several rows, more or less scarious, often opening out elastically when old, 
the inner ones rarely with radiating coloured tips. Receptacle flat or ap re 
without scales. Florets all tubular, the outer ones in 1 or rarely 2 rows 
female and very slender, those of the disk hermaphrodite, 5-toothed, 
times sterile. Anthers with fine tails. Style-branches nearly terete, b 
or capitate, sometimes undivided in sterile florets. Achenes oblong or 0?* 
densely tufted perennials, the short branches closely covered with small Z 
bricate leaves, rarely shortly diffuse with crowded but less imbricate te lea 
Flower-heads solitary, sessile or shortly PE at the ends of the Mice 
Au alpine genus, extending over New Zealand and antarctic m Andine S. America; "d 
two Australian species both endemic. In es ud character the genus can scarce cely be 
to differ from Helichrysum, but from the peculiar habit the peint hav 
e been alwa 
readily connected with Gnaphalium, from which it differs in the female ores always which . 
e hermaphrodites. A.G ^ 
he may be right, although the habit and shape of the involucre appear to be different. 
group requires much further revision, and may be better characterized when we obtain m ed 
humerous and more perfect specimens of se Ms species which are as yet bu t little kno 
Leaves imbricate, densely woolly-villous capes leafless, 4 to 1 in 1. R. Plane honi, 
Leaves crowded on decumbent e gai but e imbricate, CN € ; 
leiere Flower-heads sessile . 9. R. Catipes. 
