4 THE TASMANIAN Ff-ORA. 



16. RUTIDOSIS. 



Bracts unequal, broad, and scarious. Receptacle convex, witkout scales. 

 Flovets all tubular. Achenes hardly compressed. Pappus of many flattened 

 filaments or scales. 



A small Australian genus, allied to Uelickrysum. 



R. PUMiLo, Benth. A slender annual, of from g-.S inches. Leaves linear, 

 opposite. Flowers about j inch long, usually many together, in a dense, terminal, 

 leafy panicle. Bracts 8-10, nearly equal. Pappus of 6-12 oblong scales. 

 I*umilo preiisii, Hook. 



George Town, mouth of the Tamar, "West Head. Throughout Southern 

 Australia. PI. Oct.-Nov. 



17. MILLOTIA. 



Flower cylindrical. Bracts narrow, nearly equal. Receptacle without scales. 

 Florets tubular. Achenes cylindrical, contracted above. Pappus of numerous, 

 fine, barbellate bristles. 



The genus is confided to Australian distribution. 



M. TBNUIFOLIA, D. C. A small, erect, tufted annual, usually somewhat grey 

 -with slight woolly pubescence, usually 2, but rarely even 6 inches high. 

 Leaves linear, 5-^ inch long. Flowers terminal, solitary. Bracts linear, 

 herbaceous, .3-4 lines long. Florets very numerous. Achenes linear, with 

 usually a long contracted apex, rough. 



Very common in stony pastures. Throughout extra-tropical Australia. Fl. 

 Oct. 



18. IXIOL^NA. 



Bracts numerous, linear, unequal, herbaceous, the inner ones with scarious or 

 coloured tips. Receptacle flat or convex, without scales. Florets all tubular. 

 Achenes angular or cylindrical, not contracted above into a thin process. 

 Pappus of fine bristles, sometimes barbellate. 



A small Australian genus, diifering from Helichrymm chiefly in the 

 herbaceous nature of the involucral bracts. 



I. SUPTHA, F. V. M. A small, decumbent, branched perennial. Leaves mostly 

 oblong-spathulate, narrowed into a short stalk, |-| inch long. Flowers terminal, 

 solitary, hemispherical. Bracts linear, rigid, the inner ones with narrow 

 ^scarious tips, 2-3 lines long. Florets very numerous. Pappus of 20 or 30 

 ■capillary bristles. 



Bass Straits ; also in South Australia. Fl. Dec. 



19. PODOLEPIS. 



Bracts numerous, unequal. Receptacle flat, without scales. Outer florets 

 either with straps or the lobes of the corolla ir.regular, inner ones tubular. 

 Achenes slightly compressed. Pappus of capillary bristles. 



The genus is limited to Australia. 



P. ACDMiNATA, It. Br. Stems few together, from a persistent base, 1-2 feet 

 high, generally rough, with short coarse hairs. Leaves at the base oblong to 

 lanceolate, mostly 3-ribbed, 3 or more inches long ; stem-leaves few, smaller, 

 lanceolate, the lateral ribs gradually disappearing. Flowers solitary, large, 

 yellow. Bracts numerous, unequal, thin and transparent, pale brown. Ray- 

 florets spreading, deeply divided into 3-5 lobes, inner florets tubular. 



Common in many situations. Found also throughout Eastern and Southern 

 Australia. Fl. Dec-Jan. 



20. LEPTORRHTNCHUS. 

 Bracts very numerous, unequal, and overlapping, herbaceous, with scarious 

 tips. Florets all tubular, rerj numerous, exceeding the involucre. Achenes 



