208 flora or TASMANIA. [Composite. 
lis ; foliis alternis, lineari-oblongis, sessilibus ; capitulis majuseulis ; involucris subturbinatis obconicisve • 
floribus/<M?w. 
Of this genus about twelve species are known, all of them Australian, and the greater number natives of New 
South Wales.— Herbs, with slender, erect or ascending, leafy, simple or branched stems, terminating in bracteolate 
peduncles bearing solitary capitula. Involucral scales very numerous, imbricated in many series, white or pale 
hyaline, dry and scarious. Flowers numerous, all hermaphrodite. Corollas all tubular, five-toothed. Styles bifid, 
with capitate arms. Jchenia with long or short beaks. Pappus of one row of slender hairs, that are somewhat 
combined at the very base, scabrid below and barbellate above. (Name from Xctttos, slender, and pvyxos, a beak.) 
1. Leptorhynchus squamatus (Less. Synops. 273); pilosa v. glabrata, foliis anguste lanceolatis 
acuminatis marginibus recurvis subtus plus minusve albo-tomentosis pedunculis elongatis multibracteolatis, 
involucri squamis numerosissimis dense imbricatis apice brunneis acuminatis longe sparse villosis, acheniis 
glaberrimis brevissime rostratis, pappi setis supra medium barbellatis.— DC. Prodr. vi. 160. L. Lhotzkyanus, 
Walp. in Linnma, xiv. 317. Chrysocoma squarnata, Lab. Nov. Boll. ii. 40. t. 184. Helichrysum dubium, 
Cass. Diet. Sc. Nat. xx. 453 et xxv. 468. (Gunn, 118, 698, 1161.) 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Colony. — (Fl. Oct., Nov.) (v. v.) 
Disteib. South-eastern Australia : Victoria and New South Wales. 
Gunn remarks that this plant grows both on the mountains and low grounds, and that the mountain speci- 
mens are the most luxuriant.— A small herb, with many spreading, ascending, slender, wiry branches, a foot or 
more long. Leaves spreading, i-lf inch long, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, margins recurved, under surface 
tomentose and white. Peduncles slender, covered with scattered, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, white, 
hyaline bracteoles. Capitula broadly turbinate, |-1 inch broad. Involucral scales extremely numerous, all white, 
scarious, and transparent, the upper with brown, acuminate tips. 
2. Leptorhynclms elongatus (DC. Prodr. vi. 160) ; perennis, caulibus gracilibussuberectisramosis, 
foliis anguste linearibus inferioribus subspathulatis ceteris sessilibus subacutis hispidulis marginibus recur- 
vis, involucri squamis exterioribus lineari-lanceolatis scariosis, interioribus anguste lineari-elongatis viridibus, 
acheniis longe rostratis. — Bonder in Linncea, xxv. 502. {Gunn, 1162.) 
Hab. Not uncommon in various parts of the Colony : Hobarton, New Norfolk, Launceston, etc., 
Gunn, etc.— (Fl. Oct.-Dec.) {v. v.) 
Distkib. South-eastern Australia : Victoria and New South Wales. 
A much larger plant than L squamatus, with a thick, perennial root, and many stout, erect, branching stems, 
1-2 feet long. Sonder refers the Tasmanian specimens to a variety 08. Tasmanicus), distinguished from the Austra- 
lian state of the plant by the more glabrous, branching stem, rather smaller capitula, and shorter beak to the ache- 
nium ; but I find these characters to be all very variable.— Leaves almost hispid, 1-3 inches long, narrow-linear, 
with blunt points and recurved margins ; lower gradually dilated upwards ; upper sessile. Capitula larger than in 
L. squamatus, with few involucral scales, the inner of which are much longer and more herbaceous. Jchenia with 
long beaks. 
Gen. XXIV. PODOLEPIS, Lab. 
Capitulum multiflorum, heterogamum ; floribus radii foemineis, ligulatis v. tubuloso-difformibus ; disci 
tubulosis, hermaphroditis, 5-dentatis. Involucri campanulati squamae multiseriales, scariosge, siccse, inte- 
nores unguiculatse. Receptaculum paleaceum. Styli rami apice capitellati. Anthem basi setiferse. Ache- 
mum oblongum. Pappus 1-seriatus, setis scaberulis basi in annulum concretis.— Herbas habitu Lepto- 
A rather extensive genus, wholly confined to Australia, consisting of about twenty-five species, of which the 
