Victorian Plants. 347 



BRUNONXA. 



1539. Stems leafless, except at the base, terminated by 



solitary capitular clusters of small flowers. 



Perennial, densely or imperfectly beset with short hairlets ; 

 stems branchless, peduncular ; leaves from narrow- to 

 spatular- or obovate-lanceolar, entire ; flowers singly 

 surrounded by bracts and bracteoles, constituting in- 

 volucrated headlets ; calyx-lobes very narrow, plumously 

 ciliolated, usually glandular- tipped, forming a pappus ; 

 corolla and stamens inserted below the ovulary ; filaments 

 connate towards the base ; cover of the stigma bilobed, 

 without marginal ciliolation ; ovulary uni-ovulate ; seed 

 without any albument. B. Australis. 



DAZKPXERA. 



1540. Leaves almost flat ... ... 1541 



Leaves recurved at the margin ... ... ... 1542 



1541. Branchlets hardly angular. 



Somewhat shrubby ; leaves from orbicular to ovate and 

 elliptical, clothed with stellular-branched hairlets under- 

 neath, occasionally indented ; flowers generally few and 

 somewhat distant on each of the axillary and terminal 

 stalks ; corolla densely beset outside with dark plumously 

 branched hairlets; fruit very small, ellipsoid, one-seeded. 



D. Brownii. 



Branchlets very angular. 



Almost herbaceous ; leaves firm, from elliptic to linear or 

 the lower almost ovate or cuneate, often indented and 

 glabrous ; corolla outside beset with a brownish velvet- 

 like vestiture ; fruit very small, one-seeded. 



D. stricta. 



1542. Lower side of leaves almost concealed by their 



revolute margin. 



Somewhat shrubby, but never tall, partly beset with short 

 hairlets; branchlets hardly angular, though streaked ; 

 leaves often small, from elliptic- to broad-linear, blunt, 

 generally soon almost glabrous above, sometimes fascicular- 

 crowded ; corolla beset with a rather dark vestiture out- 

 side, its expanding membranes blue or not rarely purplish 

 or white ; fruit very small, one-seeded. 



D. rosmarinifolia. 



Lower side of leaves partly covered by their recurved 

 margin ... 1543 



