676 LXII. COMPOSITAE. 
89. AMBLYSPERMA, Benth. 
Involucre broadly hemispherical, the bracts imbricate in several rows, the 
outer ones gradually shorter. Receptacle without scales. Ray-florets fe- 
male, ligulate, with an upper lip divided to the base into 2 filiform segments ; 
disk. ‘florets tubular, hermaphrodite, 5-lobed. Anthers with long eer 
Style-branches elongated, obtuse. Achenes short, thick, villous. 
numerous rather rigid capillary bristles. Perennial. Leaves radical. Baken 
leafless, single-headed. 
The genus is limited to a single species endemic in Australia, and the only representative 
— of a side umerous in species in South America, with a few African aud tropi 
1c on 
1. A. scapigera, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 61. A perennial EA a tufted 
woolly stock. Leaves all radical, from ovate to narrow-oblong, 1 to 3 in. 
long, besides the long petioles, obtuse, Cer shortly and e y lobed or 
almost lyrate, cottony-white underneath, surrounded at the base by the per- 
sistent woolly remains of old petioles. Scapes simple, 1 to 2 ft. high, pos 
ing a few small bracts and a large terminal flower-head. Involucre $ to 13 in 
diameter, more or less covered with white wool, the bracts lanceolate acumi- 
nate. Florets of the ray 12 to 20, the lower lip or ligula above 1 in. long, 
the filiform segments of the upper not half so long, the anthers present but 
imperfect. Disk-florets ets numerous, as long as the [ein the lobes linear. 
Y segs slightly bearded at the end.—DC. Prod. 20; Steetz in 
Pl. Preiss. i. 487; Celmisia spathulata, A. Cunn. in DC. Prod. v. 209. 
OW. essi alia. King George's Sound and thence to Cape Riche, Hen A, sa 
ham, Preiss, n. 64, Drummond, n. 389, and others; Tone river, Maxwell ; Murray r! 
Oldfield. 
Tripe XII. CicHoRrAcEX.—Leaves alternate. Flower-heads homoga- ` 
mous, with all the flowers ligulate. 
90. MICROSERIS, Don. 
(Monermios, Hook. f. ; E Walp.) 
Be sides the Australian a Fe ie extends to New Zealand, there is a closely-allied one 
from extratropical S. A 
E orsteri, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 151, and Fl. Tusm. i. 926. 
t. 66. A glabrous perennial with fleshy roots thickened into tubers ace 
milky juice. Leaves radical, attaining 8 to 10 in. in luxuriant specimens, bu 
ften not half so long, narrow-lanceolate or linear, entire or Gan: wi 
short distant lobes. Scapes exceeding the leaves. Involucr lin 
long in most Australian specimens. Florets exceeding the Gs ° Pappus- | 
