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39. ERIOCHLAMYS, Sond. and F. v. M. 



(Coated witfc wool.) 



Involucre broadly ovoid or almost globular, the bracts imbricate, tbe outer ones 

 herbaceous with revolute margins, the inner ones with broad scarious margins, 

 without coloured laminse. Keceptacle slightly convex, without scales. Florets 

 numerous, all hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed. Anthers with very short points 

 or tails. Style-branches broadly truncate. Achenes oblong, without any pappus. — 

 Small annual. Leaves alternate, small, entire. Flower-heads woolly, sessile, 

 solitary or clustered. 



The genus is endemic in Australia. The inflorescence approaches sometimes that of 

 AngiantJiece, but the individual heads are occasionally solitary and always more distinct than 

 in that subtribe. — Benth. 



1. IS. Behrii (after Dr. H. Behr), Sond. and F. v. A[. in Linntea, xxv. 488 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 591. Very much branched, woolly-tomentose and usually 

 diffuse and under 6in. high, apparently annual, but sometimes larger with a hard 

 almost woody base. Leaves linear, obtuse, often all under Jin. long. Flower- 

 heads numerous, small, sessile amongst the last leaves and often crowded at the 

 ends of the branches. Involucre more or less woolly, about 1^ line long. 

 Florets scarcely exceeding the involucre, the corollas often woolly at the base. 



Hab.: Southern border. 



40. PHACELLOTHRIX, F. v. M. 



(Pappus-bristles in bundles.) 



Heads homogamous, many-flowered. Involucre almost hemispherical ; bract^ 

 3 or 4-seriate, scarious, not radiate. Receptacle naked. Corolla tubular, 

 5-toothed. Anthers hastate at the base, ecaudate. Style-branches subulate, 

 almost all sides stigmatose. Achenes almost cylindrical, erostrate, sessile, 

 glandular-punctate. Pappus- bristles uniseriate, connate in twos, threes, or fours, 

 slightly scabrous. 



1. P. cladochseta (bristles branched), F. v. M. Fragm. xi. 49. Annual 

 loosely woolly, from a few inches to 1ft. high. Leaves sessile, oblong or narrow- 

 lanceolate, the upper surface sparsely the under densely woolly, 1 to 2in. long, 

 2 to 3 lines broad, herbaceous. Peduncles terminal, 2 to 6in. long, thin, dowiiy, 

 bearing a single small head. Involucre 3 lines high, bracts glabrous, scarious, 

 tips straw-coloured, inner ones linear. Achenes brown, oblong-cylindrical. 

 Pappus white, scarcely 1 line long. — Helkhrysum cladoclimtimi, F. v. M. Fragm. 

 V. 199. — Rutidosis Brownii, Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 594. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Endeavour Biver, Banks and Solander ; 

 Cape York, Darnel ; Thursday Island, Rev. J. Chalmers (P. v. M.) 



41. ACOMIS, F. V. M. 



(Without pappus.) 



Involucre broadly hemispherical, the bracts loosely imbricate, scarious, slightly 

 thickened at the base. Eeceptacle convex, without scales. Florets numerous, 

 all hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed. Anthers with fine tails. Style-branches 

 long, truncate. Achenes oblong or narrow, without any pappus. — Erect slender 

 herbs. Leaves linear, entire. Flower-heads on slender terminal peduncles. 



The genus is limited to Australia. It is allied to Rutidosis, with nearly the same involucre, 

 differing in the absence of pappus and In the much more distinctly tailed anthers. — Benth. 



Leaves lanceolate. Corollas not dilated at the base. Usually woolly . . . 1. ^. Rutidosis. 

 Leives linear-subulate. Corollas dilated at the base. Nearly glabrous . . . 2. .i.macra. 



