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peur qwe between the angles.—Z. ramosissima, Boiss. in DC. 
. ii. eg Baill. Adans. vi. 288, not of Hook. and Arn. 
cur s. E.coast, R. Brown; Manly Beach, Woolls; also Sieber, n. 632 
Bato E iie méé rat Lord Howe’s island, C. Moore, appears also to belong 
E. 
and th he dlighty rugose seeds. The true E. ramosis 
on the Pacific islands, is Boissier’s Æ. Chamiss dito 
3. E. Mitchelliana, Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 25. A perfectly 
glabrous tege m: 1 to 14 ft., the rhizome at rin woody, 
the stems erect or diffuse, slender dichotomous, the ultimate branches 
small, the upper oblong or linear, entire, $ to lin. long, oblique or 
unequally cordate at the base. Flower-heads very small, not numerous, 
in loose terminal dichotomous cymes, the pedicels so ar the floral 
leaves or bracts lin near, mostly as long as or longer than the flower- 
heads, Involucre about 4 line long, the glands bordered by a petal-like 
obovate or orbicular a endage, varying from } to } line in breadth. 
Capsule glabrous. leis Y oru rugose. 
N. Australia. Sweers island, Hen 
i ensland. Port Bowen, Keppel ^pa ay, detnr islands, R. Brown; 
Sandy Bea ch, aa island, A. Cun acd Port s, M'Gi illieray y; Port Deni- 
nn, Fitzalan ; Rockingham Bay, Dallach y; idi sm Mitchell; Bowen river, 
Bowm ; Sutton river, Thozet; Rockhampton, O’ Shanesy ; N. Kennedy district, 
n.. 
Var. stenophyll he | s shorter and linear- 
ylla. Leaves linear, 1-13 in. long or the lower one 
lanceolate — Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 38, 505, 549 and 854 
E. chizolepis, F. Muell. ; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 20. 
Annual, but with hard, often POOR ooking stems of about 1 ft. high, 
c ue 
unequally cae at the base, 4 to lin. long, sprinkled on both 
Pur with short hairs. Flower-heads shortly pedicellate in the upper 
axils, Ein sometimes terminal leafy cymes. 
ands peltate with a fioul spreading palmately lobed or 
Ege a Ppeudage, not so white as in most species. Capsule and seeds 
x. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. 
us 2g labra ; perfectly glabrous, with 2 land- tx Aight. 8 much less lobed; per- 
pe a distinct species.—Gulf of Carpentaria, 4’. Mueller. 
5. E. Schultzii > Benth. sp. n. A slender annual of 6 in. to 1 ft., 
apparently erect hie young, but soon much-branched and diffuse, with 
pu ON id r shortly hirsute stems and foliage. — — mey 
