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flower-heads few, almost hemispherical on slender terminal 

 peduncles; involucral bracts linear, acute, the outer series 

 not numerous, ciliate; filiform florets longer than the styles, 

 about equal in number to the disk florets; disk florets five- 

 toothed, the style branches rather short; achenes scantily 

 silky-liairy. compressed. 



Isdell River (W.V.F.) 



Stems to 3ft. long. Leaves under lin. long. Flower-heads 3- 

 3 J lines long. Florets yellow. In moist sandy loam. 



657. Pluchea tetranthera F. v M. 



Diffuse and much branched. 2-3ft. high, glandular and glabrous 

 or slightly tomentose; florets white or reddish purple. This 

 species has the appearance of Eremophila latifolia F. v M. 

 Var. cinerea (W.V.F.), n. var. 



Isdell River (W.V.F.). 



A hoary-tomentose bushy shrub of 3ft. in height; involucres 

 ovoid, viscid-tomentose ; outer short bracts broadly ovate, 

 the inner narrower and longer; florets purple, with few or 

 no filiform ones. In sandy soil. 

 Var. tomentosa F. v M. 



Cane, Fortescue, and Ashburton Rivers (J. & A. Forrest), Len- 

 nard and Isdell Rivers (AY.V.F.). 



Bushy, 2ft. high; florets reddish. 



658. P. odorus Benth. 



Ord River (Alex. Forrest); near Derby, Goody Goody, Meda, 

 and Lennard Rivers, Sunday Island (W.T.F.). 



Of shrubljy habit and much branched, reaching' a height of 3ft. ; 

 florets reddish-purple. 



659. P. macroeephalus Benth. 



Roebuck Bav (J. TV. 0. Tepper) Nine Mile Range, from Wynd- 



ham; Ord River (W.Y.F.). 

 A perennial of 2-3ft. in height; ray-florets pak-eoloured. In 



sandy soil. 



660. P. adscendens Benth, 

 Cygnet Bay (W.Y.F.). 



Florets white. On damp saline flats. 



661. Epaltes australis Lessing. 



Isdell, Barnett, and Charnley Rivers (W.T.F.). 



A 2Iyriogyiie-]ike plant with greenish-yeUow flowers. 



662. Sphaeraiithiis indicus L. 



King Sound district (Froggatt), Fitzroy. Lennard, Barker, 

 Isdell, Adcock, Barnett, Hann, Charnley, and Calder Rivers; 

 bases of Mounts House, Clifton, and Hamilton (W.Y.F.). 



