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23PALTES. 



1416. Leaves mostly from obovate- to spatular-cuneate. 



Depressed or ascending perennial herb; leaves conspicuously 

 stalked; headlets of flowers almost ' sessile or on very 

 short stalks, broader th^an long ; involucral bracts from 

 ovate to orbicular, bending considerably inward ; flowers 

 enclosed ; non - stammate flowers numerous ; fruits 

 slender, glabrous, subtle-streaked. E. Australis. 



ELACHANTHUS. 



1417. Scalelets of pappus subtly pennular-streaked. 



Leaves quite short, linear-semicylindrical ; involucral bracts 

 from ovate-lanceolar to elliptical ; flowers within each 

 involucre rather few ; corolla of the non-stamiriate flowers 

 gradually attenuated upwards into its minute lobeless 

 summit ; pappus-scalelets from few to several, very 

 minutely denticulated, or those of the central flowers 

 more evidently serrulated; fertile fruits almost obovate, 

 beset with a silk-like vestiture. E. ptisillus. 



ETHULIOFSIS. 



1418. Somewhat dichotomously branched. 



Erect ; leaves sessile, the upper gradually much reduced in 

 size ; denticulation irregular, sometimes lobular and 

 crisped ; involucral bracts in few rows of unequal length, 

 broadish and slightly yellowish ; corollas pale ; pappus 

 of the staminate flowers formed of only few somewhat 

 flattened and ciliolated bristlets ; fertile fruits clavate- 

 and oblique-ellipsoid, glabrous, with a narrow decurrently 

 prominent line along the inner. side. Figure 82. 



(Epaltes Cunninghami.) E. Cunningham.!. 



PODOSPBBMA. 



1419. Involucre elongated, comparatively narrow. 



Erect or ascending, never tall, branchless or scantily 

 branched ; leaves nearly or quite linear, somewhat dis- 

 tant, relatively long, but the floral leaves abbreviated ; 

 involucre at first almost cylindrical, at last broadly 

 obconical ; involucral bracts narrow, acute ; corollas long, 

 very slender to near the summit, hardly exserted ; brist- 

 lets of pappus few ; fruits beset with hairlets. 



(Podotheca angustif olia. ) P. angustifolium. 



