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5. H. elatum (tall), A. Oimn. in DO. Prod. vi. 193 ; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. iii. 

 621. A stout erect herb or undershrub, sometimes under 1ft. high and almost 

 simple, in rich shaded situations branching, attaining 7 or 8ft. and almost woody 

 at the base, clothed with a loose or close cottony wool. Leaves lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, contracted into a petiole, stem-clasping at its base, the larger 

 ones attaining 2 to 3 or rarely 4in., the upper surface becoming at length 

 glabrous. Flower-heads large, solitary or loosely paniculate. Involucre hemi- 

 spherical, spreading to from 1 to l^in. diameter, the bracts narrow, acute, petal- 

 like, white or tinged with pink, the outer ones short and sessile, the intermediate 

 long ones on a narrow claw, the innermost shorter and very narrow. Florets 

 exceedingly numerous, much less than half as long as the involucre, a few of the 

 outer ones slender and female. Actenes glabrous or papillose. Pappus-bristles 

 slender, scarcely denticulate, not thickened upwards, shortly cohering at the 

 base. — H. lanuginosimi, A. Cunn. in DC. Prod. vi. 193; li. albicans, Sieb. PI. Exs. 



Hab.: Keppel Bay and Northumberland Islands, R. Brown ; Dawson and Mackenzie Banges, 

 F. V. Mueller ; Bodd's Bay, A. G'wmingham ; Port Denison, Fitzalan (the leaves quite glabrous) ; 

 Eoekhampton, Dallachy ; Herberton, J. F. Bailey. 



Var. Fraseri, More shrubby. Leaves crowded, the wool long and very deciduous or none, 

 and sometimes the branches slightly glutinous.— Bocks of Mount Lindsay, at an elevation o( 

 5000ft., Fraser, W. Hill : Port Curtis, M'GiUivray. 



6. H. glutinosum (glutinous). Hook, as a Helipterum ; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. 

 iii. 621. A tall erect branching herb or undershrub, the lower part of the stem 

 and foliage sometimes woolly-white, the upper portion glutinous and scabrous 

 or pubescent without wool. Lower leaves narrow-lanceolate, sometimes densely 

 woolly underneath, glutinous above, the upper ones crowded, narrow-linear with 

 revolute margins, glutinous on both sides, without wool, not dilated at the base, 

 and passing into a few distant subulate bracts on the peduncle. Flower-heads of 

 H. elatum or rather smaller. Florets, achenes and simple pappus-bristles of that 

 species. — Helipterum glutinosum, Hook. in. Mitch. Trop. Austr. 361. 



Hab.: Maranoa, Mitchell; ridges of the Suttor, F. v. Mueller. 



7. H. oxylepis (involucral bracts sharp-pointed), F. v. M. Fraflm. i. 35 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 623. A perennial, wifli erect or ascending stems of 1 to 

 2ft., branching, hard and almost woody at the base, with a little loose wool. 

 Leaves linear, with revolute margins, or very narrow-lanceolate and flat. If to 

 nearly 3in. long, becoming nearly or quite glabrous, the upper ones few and very 

 small. Flower-heads rather large, solitary. Involucre broadly hemispherical, 

 the bracts numerous and narrow, the claws nearly glabrous, the lamina (brownish- 

 yellow when dry) subulate-pointed and spreading like those of H. collinum, but 

 shorter, although longer than the florets. Florets exceedingly numerous, all 

 or nearly all hermaphrodite. Achenes and pappus of H. collinum. 



Hab.; Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander ; sandy shore, Moreton Island, F. v. Mueller; other 

 islands of the south coast. 



8. H. collinum (often on hills), DC. Prod. vi. 190 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 

 623. A herb or undershrub (of 1 to 2ft.?), with the habit of some of the compact 

 varieties of H. elatum, dotted with white cottony wool. Leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late, mostly 1 to 2in. long, woolly-white underneath or on both sides. Flower- 

 heads rather large, solitary, the almost leafless peduncles rarely exceeding 2in. 

 and sometimes very short. Involucre broadly hemispherical, spreading to a 

 diameter of lin. or rather more, the bracts very numerous, all with narrow 

 appressed loosely-woolly or sometimes nearly glabrous claws and very narrow 

 subulate-pointed spreading or reflexed laminae, pale brown-yellow when dry, 



