PW TENE: į 
OS (te ea 
Ed de Ur is ye ee 
pum 
dx 328 CIS E s KE ede 
- Ptilotus.| XCVII. AMARANTACEJE. 245 
and shining, very broadly ovate, obtuse, loose or spreading, about 2 
néslong, Perianth not 2 lines lone, the segments free almost to the 
; the lower half opaque and densel d 
y covered outside with lon 
white silky-woolly hairs exceeding the perianth, the upper $e 
oe obtuse scarious coloured and Se the three inner ones 
is pe quantity of wool inside below the middle. Stamens short, 
cely united at the base. Ovary glabrous. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 222 ; Sharks Bay, M. Brown. 
» F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 195. A small slender 
h in the 
enti i ; i 
"E as a P. macrotrichus but scarcely above half the size. : 
Tini ustralia. Nichol Bay, F, Gregory's Expedition. The single specimen ma. 
only a young starved and P TU P Mid of P macrotrichus. 
10. P. humilis, 7. Muell. Fragm. vi. 229. A small glabrous annual, 
bra 
ns A at the base, with several prostrate slender ste su 
and e ue to. i long, but sometimes ascendin slightly branched 
ining atleast 6 in. Leaves linear or linear-spathulate, obtuse 
or t : 
he upper ones mucronate-acute, mostly about 4 in. long besides the 
ori Which is long in some specimens, 
Just ovate, at length oblong, attaining fully 1 in. in length and about 
Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 628; Mog. in DC. Prod. xiii. 
1 
eiss, n. 1963; 
coast, Bynoe. 
Bon in ks g, with several spikes much nar- 
M proportic e typical form, the perianth-segments uot 2 
the s "e ex 1n the type, with ‘he ouai pink centre extending higher up, and 
8 hairs shorter.—W. Australi», Burgess. 
Drummond, n. 421 (or 4279); York district, Pr 
: F., Mueller ; W. or N.W. 
