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650. V. scabra DC. 



Summit of Mount Rason, Artesian and Edldns Ranges 



(W.V.F.). 

 A narro^'i'-leaved form. In sandy soil. 



651. Blumea pungens W.V.F., n. sp. 



An erect rigidly-branched plant, the branches and foliage hirsute 

 and very viscid; leaves rigid, lanceolate, pungent-pointed, 

 broadly sessile, prominently veined beneath, the margins 

 with distant pungent teeth; flower heads hemispherical, ter- 

 minating bracteate peduncles and forming a large pyrami- 

 dal panicle; involucral bracts numerous, linear, obtuse or 

 subacute, glandular and often ciliate, the outer ones gradu- 

 ally shorter, numerous in several rows and frequently squar- 

 rose; outer filiform florets very numerous and longer than 

 the style, the inner mostly few, five rarely four-lobed, with 

 a 2-3 branched style; aehenes terete, striate, silky-hairy. 



Vicinity of the Barker River (W.V.F.). 



Height 2-3ft. Leaves l-2in. long. Flower-heads four lines long. 



Florets yellow. On granite hills. 



Affinity, readily distinguished from other species by the foli- 

 age. 



652. B. Wightiana DC. 

 Isdell River (W.V.F.). 



An erect strongly scented plant of 2-3ft.; florets purple. In 



black and sandy loam. 

 Specimens of this plant were referred by Bentham in the Flora 



Australiensis to B. lacera DC, a species at present not 



found in Australia. 



653. B. integrifolia DC. 



Isdell, Ord, Denliam. and King Rivers (W.V.F.). 

 Florets four-merous, yellow. Sandy loam. 



654. B. Cunninghamii DC. 



Careening and Vansittart Bays (A. Cunn.) Ord and Isdell 



Rivers; Dillen's Springs (W.V.F.) 

 Florets purple. In sandy and stony spots. 



655. B. laciniata DC. 



Isdell, Lennard, Hann, and Denham Rivers (W.Y.F.). 

 Erect, 2ft.; florets yellow. In sandy loam. 



656. B. prostrata W.V.F. , n. sp. 



A perennial with a thick woody stock, the stems numerous, prosr 

 trate and often rooting at the nodes, along with the foliage 

 and peduncles more or less pubescent and sometimes woolly 

 in the loaf-axils; leaves o\-ate, obtuse, broarlly sessile or 

 semi-amplexi<'aul, maigined with distant callous teeth; 



