8^8 LXV. COMI'OSITJl. [Leptorhynchus. 



1. 1m. squamatus (scaly), Less. Si/n. Comp. 273 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 608. 

 A perennial witli decumbent or ascending stems from 6in. to 1ft. long, with a 

 little deciduous cottony wool on the young parts and the under side of the leaves. 

 Leaves lanceolate or linear, mucronate-acute, narrowed at the base, flat or with 

 recurved margins, glabrous above, the longest above lin. long, the lowest much 

 shorter. Peduncles long with distant scarious scales passing into the involucral 

 bracts. Involucre broadly turbinate or almost hemispherical, not ^in. diameter, 

 the bracts imbricate in numerous rows, obldng-lanceolate, scarious with woolly- 

 ciliate margins and small coloured but not spreading glabrous tips, the innermost 

 narrow and 3 lines long, the others gradually shorter. Florets longer than the 

 involucre, a very few of the outer ones more slender, female 3 or 4-toothed. 

 Achenes very shortly contracted at the top. Pappus-bristles cohering in a ring 

 at the base, shortly barbellate, those of the female florets few. — DC. Prod. vi. 

 160 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 208; F. v. M. Fragm. i. 62 ; Chrysocovia squamata, 

 Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 40 t. 184 ; Helichrysum dubium, Cass. (DC.) ; Lepto- 

 rhyncus hemispharicus, DC. Prod. vi. 160; L. gracilis and i. Lhotzkyanus, Walp. in 

 Linnsa xiv. 317, and probably also L. nitidukis, DC, Prod. vi. 160. 



Hab.: Southern inland localities. 



2. I., pulchellus (beautiful), F. v. M. Fragm. i. 53 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 

 610. An erect corymbosely branched annual, rarely above 6in. high, the lower 

 part of the stem sometimes hard so as to appear woody. Leaves linear, acute. 

 Flower-heads small and rather numerous on filiform peduncles. Involucre 

 broadly turbinate or almost hemispherical, about 3 lines diameter, the bracts 

 imbricate in many rows, with scarious ciliate margins and very small coloured 

 tips, the inner ones stipitate. Florets longer than the involucre, the outer female 

 ones few and slender. Achenes contracted into a short but distinct beak. 

 Pappus-bristles barbellate from the base, 2 or 3 to, the aichenes of the female 

 florets, 4 or 6 to the others. — Sond. in Linnsea xxv. 500 ; Doratolepis ' tetracIuBta, 

 Schlecht. in Linnsea, xx. 593. 



Hab.: Southern inland localities. 



3. I.. Baileyi (after F. M. Bailey), F. v. M. Fragm. x. 101. Plant about 

 ©in. high ; stems branching and woolly, leafy. Leaves 3 to 9 lines long, linear, 

 with revolute margins, becoming glabrous on the upper side. Flower-heads 

 solitary, l^in. broad, hemispherical, on short peduncles. Involucral bracts thin, 

 narrow, lanceolate-acuminate, ciliate, the inner ones on somewhat long stalks, 

 pellucid, the ends yellowish. Corollas glandular-scabrous, If to 2 lines long ; 

 outermost ones slender, female ; limb toothed. Achenes 1 line long, glabrous, 

 not beaked. Pappus white, scarcely 1| line long, delicate, plumose, bearded 

 above the middle. 



Hab.: Mount Abundance (1876), F. M. Bailey. 



81. WAITZIA, Wendl. 



(After F. A. 0. Waitz.) 



(Viraya, Gaudich.; Morna, Lindl.; Pterocsete, Steetz.) 



Involucre broadly turbinate-campanulate, hemispherical or almost globular, 



the bracts imbricate in many rows, all coloured and petal-like, the inner ones on 



narrow claws, spreading or appressed, but rarely and only shortly radiating. 



Receptacle flat, without scales. Florets numerous, all hermaphrodite, tubular, 



5-toothed. Anthers with very fine tails. Style-branches nearly terete, truncate 



or with very short cones, almost capitate. Achenes somewhat compressed, 



glabrous or papillose, terminating in a slender beak (rarely very short). Pappus 



