Drummondiane. N. O. Composite. 
TAB. CDXIII. 
CROsSOLEPIS? PUSILLA. Hiigel. 
Krecta, glomerulis oblongis basi attenuatis, capitulis bifloris. 
Hiigel, Enum. Pl. Nov. Hoil. p. 61. 
Has. Swan River Colony, Australia, (Hiigel), Mr. J. Drum- 
mond, 
A small erect annual plant, branching from the base: the 
stems red, clothed with deciduous down. Leaves alternate, li- 
near, very obtuse. Capitula terminal, collected together so as 
to form a dense cylindrical spike of a glossy, straw-colour, atte- 
nuated at the base. Each capitulum consists of a two- flowered 
involucre of three scales, of a very delicate, membranaceous re- 
ticulated texture: the outer one (comparatively) large, almost 
orbicular, concave, denticulate at the margin: the two inner 
small, boat-shaped, compressed, so as to present a flattened 
keel, fringed at the margin above. Within the fold of each of 
these small scales is a very minute tubular floret. Ovary obo- 
vate, tuberculate. Corolla funnel-shaped, widening upwards, 
S-lobed. Anthers and style altogether included. 
Fig. 1. Spike or glomerule of capitula. J. 2. Inner view of a 
eapitulum. /. 3. Outer view of do. Jf. 4,5. The two inner 
scales of the capitulum with the flowers. J. 6. floret. f. 7. Up- 
per part of the corolla laid open. /, 8, Branches of the style: 
magnified. 
