natural Family of Plants called Compositce. 125 



OzOTHAMNUS. 



Involucrum imbricatuii), scariosum, coloratum. Receptaculum cpa- 

 Jeatum, glabrum. Flosciili (pauciorcs quam 20) tubulosi, vel 

 omnes hermaphroditi, vel paucissimi feminei angustiores in 

 amhitu. j'hithetye (\nc\usiB,) basi bisclfe. Stigmata ap'ice ohtuso 

 subtruncato hispidulo. Pappus sessilis, pilosus, nunc penicilla- 

 tus, persistens. 



Fnitices(^ovs£ HoUandiiie et Novce ZelandisEjVix Africae australis,) 

 graveoleutes, tomentosi. Folia s/;fl?'sa, integerrima, marginibus sa- 

 piiis recurvis. Inflorescentia terminalis, cort/mbosa v. congesta. 

 Involucra alba v. cinerca : squamis intimis nunc conformibus et con~ 

 niventibus ; nunc laminis patulis niveis radium brtvem obtusum ef- 

 Jbrmantibus. Gorollulae lutece. Pappus albus. 



The fourth species added to Galea by Willdenow is Galea lepto- 

 phylla of Forster, whose specimens I have examined in Mr. Lam- 

 bert's Herbarium. Amongst Forster's drawings, formerly referred 

 to, there is a coloured figure of this plant, by which it appears that 

 he originally considered it to belong to Gnaphalium. From this 

 genus he afterwards removed it, probably on finding it referred 

 to Galea in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks, by whom it was 

 discovered in New Zealand in a more peifect, at least in a more 

 luxuriant state. 



'I'his plant, though agreeing with Galea in every part of the 

 Linncan essential character, differs remarkably from it in other 

 points of nearly equal importance, as well as in habit; and along 

 with Galea aculeata of M. Labillardiere, and several other species 

 also natives of New Holland and Van Diemen's Island, constitutes 

 a genus very nearly related to Ozothamnus, from which it is to be 

 distinguished chiefly by the paleae of its receptacle. 



I propose 



