Minima.-] LXV. COMPOSITiE. 799 



Glaucous and glabrous. Leaves lauoeoliite or linear, very acute . . 3. 31. integerrima. 



Young shoots woolly. Leaves linear, obtuse, entire or toothed . . i. J/, dciitictdatn. 

 Involuoral bracts oblong-linear, eiliate, about 2 lines long. Bay-achenes 



glabrous. Disk pappus united in a tube ... ... . . .5. il/. sucrdiMia. 



1. M. leptophylla (leaves slender), BU. Prod. v. 298 ; Benth Fl.Au.itr. 

 iii. 498. An undershrub or small shrub, with numerous erect or ascending 

 branches, under 1ft. and often under Gin. high, glabrous or pubescent in the 

 upper portion. Leaves narrow-linear, almost filiform, mucronate-acute or 

 almost obtuse, J to |in. long in some specimens, ^ to lin. in others, , the 

 upper ones small and few. Flower-heads terminal, pedunculate above the 

 last leaves. Involucre hemispherical, the bracts not numerous, in 2 or 

 3 rows, with searious eiliate margins, the inner ones 2 to 2| lines long, 

 a few of the outer ones smaller. Eay-florets 20 to 30, with oblong-linear 

 ligulse. Disk-florets about as long as the involucre. Achenes of the ray 

 so densely covered with long silky hairs as to conceal their form, with a pappus 

 of numerous nearly equal bristles ; achenes of the disk abortive, terete, nearly 

 glabrous, most of the pappus bristles very short and slightly flattened at the base, 

 a few only elongated and usually thickened or plumose at the end. — M. tennisrima, 

 DC. Prod. V. 298 ; il . asteroidca, Sond. in. Linntea, xxv. 467. 



Hab.: Inland localities. 



Yar. ? hinpida. The whole plant hirsute with short spreading hairs. — Eockingham Bay, 

 Dallachy, a single slender specimen in Herb. F. Mueller, with a single flower-head, insufficient 

 for examination, and therefore the determination doubtful. — Bentli. 



2. T/L. Cunninghamii (after Allan Cunningham), Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 498. 

 A bushy shrub or undershrub, with short slender branchlets, quite glabrous. 

 Leaves narrow-linear, entire, the longer ones acute and above |^in. long, the 

 smaller ones often obtuse, thick and almost fleshy. Peduncles terminal, longer 

 than the leaves. Involucre ovoid or almost hemispherical, about 8 lines long, 

 the bracts narrow, acute. Eay-florets numerous, narrow, longer than the pappus ; 

 disk-florets usually few. Achenes of the ray glabrous or slightly pubescent, 

 narrow, but flat, with a pappus of numerous very fine white capillary bristles ; 

 achenes of the disk nearly terete and abortive, the bristles all except 5 to 10 very 

 short. — Elachothcuimus Cunninrjliamii , DC. Prod. v. H98 ; F. v. M. PI. Vict. t. 

 34 ; FuriibifjjKis intricata, F. v. M. in Linnsa, xxv. 896 ; Themi/ei-on teniiifolius, 

 Sond. in Linnaea, xxv. 467. 



Hab.: Inland southern localities. 



3. ni. integerrima (leaves entire), Benth. FL Austr. iii. 499. Perfectly 

 glabrous, smooth and somewhat glaucous. Stems from a perennial often woody 

 base, erect, rigid, often corymbosely branched, rarely above 1ft. high. Leaves 

 lanceolate or linear, acute, quite entire, mostly -^ to lin. or rarely 2in. long, the 

 upper ones few and small. Flower-heads small, terminal. Involucre broadly 

 hemispherical, 2 to 3 lines diameter, with numerous narrow bracts, searious on 

 the edges. Eay-fiorets exceedingly numerous, in many rows, small, narrow, 

 white ; disk-florets sometimes only 2 or 3, sometimes numerous. Achenes of the 

 ray small, flat, the pappus bristles fine, white and not very numerous ; achenes of 

 the disk abortive, with still fewer pappus-bristles, occasionally accompanied by a 

 few short ones. — Theroyeron integerrimus, DC. Prod. v. 283. 



Hab.: Burdekin Elver, F. v. Mueller ; Condamine Eiver, Leichhardt ; Cape Elver, Bmiivian. 



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4. IVE. denticulata (leaves toothed), Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 499. Allied to 

 M. integerrima, but more branching, with diffuse or' ascending stems, rarely above 

 8 or 9in. high, the young shoots and sometimes the whole plant clothed with a 

 white woolly tomentum, Leaves linear or line^-r-oblong, obtuse, entire or remotely 



