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Erect, strongly scented, 9-12m. high; florets purple. In damp 

 spots. This includes the G. hirtus Willd. of the Flora Aus- 

 traliensis. 



663. S. afrieanus L. 



North- West Coast (A. Cunn.) Calder Ri\-er and Walcott Inlet 



(W.V.F.). 

 In damp soil. Includes the G. micro cephalus of the Flora Aus- 



traliensis. 



664. Spilcmthes gTandiflorum Turcz. 

 Isdell River (W.V.F.). 



On gTassy black soil plains. 



665. Pterocaulon sphaeelatus Benth. et Hook. 



Erect, or scantily branched, l-3ft. high; florets white to purple. 



666. P. verbascifolius Benth. et Hook. 



Grlenelg River (J. Martin) Lennard River; near Inglis' Gap, 



King Leopold Ranges (W.V.F.). 

 Erect, 2ft. ; florets purple. In sandy soil overlying gTanite rocks. 



667. P. glandulosus Benth. et Hook. 



Yule River (J. Forrest) Adcock River; bases of Mounts Her- 

 bert, House, and Clifton (W.V.F.). 



Stems erect, about 2ft. ; branching, several from the same stock ; 

 clusters of flower-heads sometimes 2in. long, always viscid; 

 florets white. In sandy soil. 



668. P. globuliforus W.V.F., n. sp. 



A much spreading shrub, with the branches closely white-tomen- 

 tose; leaves ovate, obtuse, of thin texture, margined with 

 distant small teeth, green and finely tomentose above, 

 densely white-tomentose beneath, each contracted into a 

 short petiole and long decurrent in narrow entire wings; 

 clusters of flower-heads globose, distant, leaf-opposed or 

 axillary and closely sessile; bracts of the common receptacle 

 short, linear to linear-spathulate, densely wooUy-tomentose, 

 those of the partial involucures linear to linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, scarious, about twice as long as those of the recep- 

 tacle; ray-florets 12-15; disk-florets solitary; style-lobes 

 subulate; pappus bristles scabrous; achenes slightly com- 

 pressed, finely silky-hairy. 



Wingrah Pass, Napier Range (W.Y.F.). 



Height 2ft. Leaves moslly l-l^in. long. Clusters of flower- 

 heads 4-5 lines diameter. Florets white. Among limestone 

 rocks. 



Affinity to P. sphacelnliis Benth. et Hook. 



