ICONEs PLANTARUM. 83 
- “ on re eer Benth. single species. Epallage salvifolia, D.C. 
od. vi. 
Has. Madagascar. Dry stony places round Mananzary in the province 
of Emirna, Bojer. 
Caules basi pica ramis tenuibus superne pubescentibus et minute glan- 
dulosis. — vato-lanceolata v. oblongo-elliptica, obtusa v. mucron 
utrinque subtus presertim minute Slanduloso-puberula. Capitula 3-4-lin. 
diametro, pedunculis tenuibus 1—14-pollicaribus fulta, — 3-5 ad apices 
ramorum, quorum inferiora ad axillas foliorum superiorw 
Fig. 1. Receptacle, involucre, and pale, longitudinal section. 2. Floret of the 
3. One f its staminodia. 4. 7 mamit of its sty le. 5. Floret of the me and subtending 
palea alea . Three of its stamen 
of its ei 
This plant was included by De Candolle in his genus Zpallage from the 
same country. The true typical species of that genus have, however, a very 
different babit, no tails to the anthers, and the ribs of the achenes ter- 
minating in small aristee alternating with distinct scales of the pappus, aan 
places them among the Helianthoidee, wor 2, mrp ong appears to 
to be a genuine Buphthalmea.—G, Bent 
Pirate 1136. 
COLEOCOMA CENTAUREA, F. Muell. 
Composit&, Tribe INULOIDEZ PLUCHEINEZ. 
. centaurea, F. Muell.in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 19; Benth. Fl. 
Austral. iii. 533. 
Has. Tropical Australia; Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller. 
les humiles, duri,erecti, rigidi, glabri, basi ae quamvis forte annu 
Folia alterna, subsessilia, linearia v. lineari-lanceolata, acuta, dentibus paucia 
in 
ultima ad apices ramorum v. in dichotomiis sessilia. Jnvolucrum ovoideum, 
4-5 lin. longum, bracteis latis coriaceis appressis, apice scarioso-marginati 
mucronulatis, more Centaure vabepppenatetlatia: Corolle vix exserte, 
foemineze 9-3. seriate tenues, hermaphrodite plures, steriles. xa pales 
1-seriate, florum fertilium alte connatz, florum sterilium fere libe 
