Composite^ flora of Tasmania. 
oblong or spathulate, hyaline. Corolla tubular, four-toothed. Achenium obovohl. b 
(Name from o-Kippos, a tumor, and <£epu>, to bear ; in allusion to the bate of the OOToDl I 
ened.)— Plate LIII.^. Fig. 1, leaf; 2, glomerule; 3, receptacle OB which the capitula arc plttodi I 
5, flower and scale of involucre; 6, corolla cut open: 7, stamen ; B, ^\le. '•', aclu niutn cut opCA] l (l . <mhno 
all very Uglily magnified. 
Gen. XVII. PUM1LO, SehhU. 
Capitulum solitarium, 3-6-florum, homogamum. L/r ' " let, HMoqualcs, inahmr, 
tenerrimse, medio lierbacese. Receptaculum angustissimum, epaleaa ' parva, bn vis, 
tubulosa, 4-dentata. Anthem breviter bisetosae. Styli rami mediocri, truncati. Pappus oonstam 
8, magnis, radiantibus, chartaceis, obovatis, acuminatis, albidis. Achenium obconicum, curvatura, glandu- 
losum, areola laterali latissiraa, — Herba annua, minima, araneo-pilosa r. ghilerrima ; caul- 
.- foliia opposite. 
1. Pumilo Preissii (Sonder in Linmca, xxv. 487) ; foliia linearibus, papitulil 
pappi squamis sub-8 obovatis acuminatis. — Actinopap]ms perpuffllua, /. 
p. 226. Styloncerus multiflorus, N. ab E. in PL Pmw. ii. 2 1 1 • ■< > tJH ft 
Hab. Westhead, Tamar River, Georgetown, g 
Distrib. South-eastern and South-western Australia, 
The other species of this singular little genua arc natives of South-wot.™ Anatoli 
almost microscopic, consisting of excessively slender, thr. a.l-likc simple or branched, annual BtaaJ 
long, bearing a very few pairs of opposite, linear, subulate leaves, and on. 
of a few unequal involucral scales surrounding three to six flowers, which 
nia, each crowned with a spreading, whit.-, ata» ininate. whit.. 
scarious scales. Corolla broadly tubular, four-cleft, fl f aaawi I """ glandular, 
with a lateral, broad areola, where the pappus if utaar, a ray, and Trajnros . 
the star-shaped pappus.) — Plate LIII. B. Fig. 1, involucra'. 
4, another with the pappus spreading; 5, corolla laid open ; 6, 
9 and 10. embryo : — all very highly magnified. 
Gen. XVIII. APALOCHLAll 
Capitulum homogamum, 10-1 6-florum ; floribus tubulosis, 5-d- : 
oblongum, squamis scarioso-diaphanis, conniventibus. 
basi ecaudatse. Achenium obovatum, breve. Pappus deciduus, 1 -acnaha ; ittoa huforn.:. 
tenuiter barbellatis.— llerbae ; caulibus erectu, Umentom 
panicula decomposita . 
1. ApalocMamys Billardieri (DC. Prodr. ti 167 
sessilibus pediccllatisve, bracteis involucrique squamis obi 
I. c. ? Cassinia spectabilis, Kcr. B 
Hab. Port Daliymple, Woolnorth, and Island? of ]'. ' ■•■ h.) ("To- 
bacco" of Sealers.) 
Disteib. South-eastern Australia: Wilson's Promo:.- 
I am acquainted with only one species of this genus, and I suspect t:. iekeri and A. 
Kerrii are both referable to it. Brown indeed (fid. DC.) refers the Tasmanian species to Comma spectahxlk, {A. 
Kerrii, DC.), and De CandoUe says of A. Endlicheri that the flowers are perhaps m i 
