224 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Composita. 
Leaves coriaceous, 1-2 inches long, similar in form to those of S. velleioides, but with narrower bases, more deeply 
and irregularly toothed margins, and with the under surface covered at times with a scanty lax white tomentum. 
Capitula numerous, densely corymbose, without rays, small. Involucres linear, half the length of the florets, their 
'; the base into an obconic, fleshy, hard receptacle. 
(DC. Prodr. vi. 371) ; herbaceus, cano- v. araneo-tomentosus glabratusve, 
foliis coriaceis linearibus anguste lineari-lanceolatisve subacutis utrinque cano-tomentosis glaberrimisve 
margine revolutis integerrimis, corymbo laxiusculo composito ramis ad axillos bracteatis, involucris calycu- 
latis floribus brevioribus ovato-cylindraceis, ligulis nullis, acheniis sericeis.— Sonder in Linncea, xxv. 525. 
Erechtites candicans, Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 122. {Gunn, 701.) 
Hab. Tasmania, Gunn. 
Distrib. South-eastern and South-western Australia : from subtropical New South Wales, Victoria, 
Adelaide, and Swan River. 
I have only one Tasmanian specimen of this very distinct species, but a great number of Australian ones (col- 
lected by Cunningham, Mueller, Drummond, Robertson, and others), from a comparison of which it appears to be a 
very variable plant, being either perfectly glabrous or more or less covered (even on the involucre) with a hoary 
tomentum; the leaves also are perfectly entire or deeply sinuate and toothed or irregularly toothed and lobed along 
the margin. De Candolle's description of A. Cunninghamii accords with the glabrous states of this.— An erect, 
herbaceous species, lf-8 feet high. Stems simple or branched. Leaves 2-4 inches long, narrow-lanceolate, quite 
entire in the Tasmanian specimen, with revolute margins, coriaceous. Involucres linear-oblong, cylindrical, shorter 
than the flowers. Ray none. Achenia silky. 
Gen. XXXI. BEDFORDIA, DC. 
Capitulum multiflorum, homogamum; floribus omnibus tubulosis, hermaphroditis. Receptaculum 
favosum, alveolorum marginibus dentatis. Involucri ovati squamis 1-serialibus, basi calyculatis. Corolla 
tubus basi gracilis, abrupte ampliatus ; antheris semiexsertis basi ecaudatis. Achenia glabra. Pappi set« 
basi scaberulas, apices versus barbellate.— Frutices ; ramis tomentosis; foliis alternis, subtus tomentosis : 
capitulis magnis, in corymbos axillares oligocephalos aggregate subsolitariisve. 
I have in the 'New Zealand Flora' (vol. i. pp. 147, 149) suggested the necessity of reducing this genus to 
Senecw, to which it is united by means of the species belonging to Forster's genus Brachyglottis ; but as the in- 
termediate forms are wanting in Australia, I have thought it more convenient to retain the genus for the present, 
its habit being very distinct from any of the Senecios of that country. The two Tasmanian species are the only 
ones known. These may best be distinguished from the other Australian Senecionidea by the shrubby habit, more 
deeply pitted receptacle, the broader upper part of the tube of the corolla, the half-exserted stamens, and the 
pappus hairs being more scabrous below, and more plumose towards the tip.— Both are shrubs, with alternate leaves, 
beneath tomentose, as are the branches, and large capitula, which are axillary, solitary or few together, and with 
no ray flowers. Involucral scales in one series (De Candolle describes them as being in two or three series), not 
sphacelate or brown at the tips. (Named in honour of the late Duke of Bedford, an eminent and Hberal patron of 
Horticulture and Botany.) 
1. Bedfordia salicina (DC. Prodr. vi. 441) ; frutex, ramis tomentosis, foliis breve petiolatis planis 
anguste linean-lanceolatis lineari-oblongisve rugosis integerrimis subtus reticulatim venosis cinereo-tomen- 
tosis, corymbis axillaribus folio brevioribus oligocephalis.— Cacalia salicina, Lab. Nov. Boll. ii. 37. t. 179; 
Lmdl. Bot. Reg. 923. Culcitium salicinum, Spreng. SysL Veg. iii. 431. {Gunn, 121.) 
Hab. Common on the skirts of forests and in the brush.— (Fl. Oct.-Dec.) (v. v.) (Cultivated in 
xmgland.) 
