* 
ae CV. THYMELER. 11 
anthers oblong, with a narrow connective, the cells when open placed . 
back to back. Fruit short within the per stint perianth, not acumi- 
nate; epicarp membranous. Seed with copious albumen, the cotyledons 
na cer than the radicle.— P. decussata, R. Br. Pro 360 ; 
Meissn. in PI. Preiss, i. 602, ii. 270, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 502 ; Sweet, 
Fl. Austral. t. Ll Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1283; Maund, Botanist, t 1965 
P. diosmifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1708; Heterolena decussata, C. A. Me ey. 
in Bull. Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 73 
W. Australia. King George's Sound «i adjoining districts, R. Brown, A. Cun- 
ningham, Drummond, 3rd coll. n. 286, Preiss, n. 1272 and many ‘others ; extending to 
Cape Arid, Maxwell. 
14. P. brach; phyla, 3 Benth. An erect much-branched shrub, "- 
under 1 ft. to about 2 ft. high, dero, except the inflorescence . Leave 
recurved ins, from un lines to about 3 lines ong - 
heads small, globular, with an seg eh of 4 to 6 broadly ovate bracts, 
shorter than the flowers, the inner ones slightly silky-hair e. 
Receptacle hirsute. Flowers hermaphrodite o e specime 
dite or in som 
emale. Perianth-tube about 2 to 24 lines long in the hermaphrodite 
flowers, shorter in the female, not circumsciss, more or r less hirsute with 
- spreading hairs. Filaments in the hermaphrodite flowers nearly as long 
—. as the lobes; anthers ovate, with a narrow connective, the cells when 
open placed back to back; in the female flowers the filaments short 
with small empty anthers and the style longer. Fruit small, ovoid, not 
beaked. Seed not seen quite ripe.— P. brevifolia, Mein. in DC. Prod. 
xiv. 497 not of R. Br. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound. and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drum- 
mond, 5th coll. n. 429, F. F^ Mueller ; ; dense thickets N. of tetadlite Bay, Maxwell. 
Secr. 4. CarvPTRosTEGIA.—Involucral bracts free, various in size 
or number, sometimes very deciduous, purely entirely. deficient. Flowers 
hermaphrodite or in some specimens female by abortion. Perianth-tube 
- «after flowering circumsciss above the ovary, leaving the lower portion 
onl persistent round the fruit. — with a narrow connective, the 
cells when open placed back to bac 
- ^ Supsecr. 1. Oa — i^o OE: terminal, with 4 to 6 broad. persistent 
. involucral bracts. Leaves o 
$ to 2 in. long, more or less concave. Flower-heads mos 
involucel des 4 to 6, ovate-lanceolate, shorter than or as long as 
Receptacle and very short pedicels adir "Perianth riy 
“labial the rin slender, 3 to 4 lines long, circumsciss above the 
‘ovary. Filaments as long as the lobes; anthers narrow-oblong, with a 
