Erechthites.| LXII. COMPOSITE. 661 
Victoria. Wendu Wach eget Glenelg river, near Melbourne, mg Creek, 
Snowy River, Omeo plains, F. Mueller ; mp bb ; Wimmera, Da/lac 
Tasmania. La Carmen Cireular Hea 
S. narena Lofty Range, F. Muel. 
lia, Drummon 
W. Aus 
E A. Kaz — above mentioned, both in general habit and in the analytical details, 
: Tnvoluere of nearly equal bracts apparently hx. a 
seem a true Senecio, pro robably a form of S. odorata, but the rarer nuls in SE 
text of “the di ds aud florets, totally at variance with the plate, certainly re 
true Erechthites, and is probably not taken from the specimen figured. De Candolle’s 8 ine 
racter is entirely taken from A. Richard's. 
84, GYNURA, Cass. 
Involucre of nearly equal bracts in a single row with a few small outer ones 
Tound their base. Receptacle without scales. Florets all tubular, her- 
maphrodite, 5-toothed. Anthers obtuse at the base. Style bulbous at the 
he b ‘ 
base, nches ending in long linear hairy points chenes striate 
Pappus of numerous capillary bristles.—Herbs, often somewhat succulent 
Bio alter Flower-heads terminal, solitary or loosely corymbose. 
E 
mall genus, confined to the tropical and nire regions of the Old World, the only 
br species being the same as an Indian 
G. pseudochina, DC. Prod. vi. 299. Rootstock perennial, thick and 
fes . Stems erect or ascending, 1 to 2 ft. high, somewhat succulent, leafy 
petiolate, obovate ovate-oblong or lanceolate, coarsely toothed, rather thick, 
“pubescent or nearly glabrous, s, 2 to 3 or even 4 in. long, the petiole often ex- 
E at the base into 2 susielae or lobes. Flower-heads about 7 lines 
ng. Involucre of about 12 narrow bracts with eei short eed ones.— 
| 9. ovalis, DC. and other synonyms adduced in Ben ge Hongk. 189; 
- Benecio pr F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. va ii. 
nsland. Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander; East coast, i Brown ; bes 
W. Hi ooper, 
| Bay, Dukia, Brisbane river, rare, ill, F. Mueller Sede Oe , near "Isaac 
River er, Bowman ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; ki l Bay, Cha 
A native of China and probably also of the Archipelago and vite puris of Zeg? eg 
the specimens received are often —Ó ee mesons G. nepalensis, DC., 
ze, perhaps to be added to the syno ore ere “oer ek A 
ones being in this respect intermediate verc "that ud the typical fo 
85. SENECIO, Linn. 
S E (Centropappus, Hook. fei 
` Flower-heads homogamous and discoid or heterogamous and radiate. 
single row, linear or very 
Sich ovate, the margins often scarious an eate, with or rarely without 
few small ones a t. tle. base passing into the bracts on the peduncles. Re- 
-eptacle naked or pitted, the borders of the pits rarely toothed or produced 
nto afew short scales: Florets of the ray when present female or rarely 
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