Gnephosi.'!.] LXV. COMPOSITE. 849 



transparent and very deciduous. Receptacle without scales. Florets herma- 

 phrodite, tubular, slender, i or 5 toothed, sometimes hardened at the base. 

 Anthers more or less distinctly pointed or tailed at the base. Style-branches 

 nearly terete, truncate. Achenes usually compressed. Pappus none or form- 

 ing a jagged ring or cup, or rarely of several short distinct scales. — Annual or 

 rarely perennial herbs, glabrous or more or less cottony. Leaves alternate, 

 entire. Cluster of flower-heads terminal, sessile or pedunculate. 



The genus is limited to Australia. It is closely allied to Aiigianthus, but the general .involucre 

 and receptacle are less developed than in that genus and the partial involucres much more ho, 

 consisting of much move numerous bracts and not flattened. — Benth. 



Partial heads 1 or 2-llowered. 

 Stems ascending. Heads 1 or 2-flowered. Involucral bracts appendicu- 

 late. Pappus none. Achenes woolly (glabrous oi' nearly so in the rest 



of the genus) 1. (7. erinairpa. 



Stems erect, corymbose. Heads 2-flowered. Clusters turbi;iate-globular. 

 Involucral bracts appendiculate. Pappus cup-shaped. Stem hard. 



Leaves under Jin. long ....". . . 2. G. cyatliopappa. 



Involucral bracts not appendiculate. Pappus none 'A. G. nruchnuiden. 



1. Gt. eriocarpa (seeds woolly), Benth'. Fl. Amtr. iii. 570. Described by 

 F. v. Mueller from a single fragment, a slender slightly branched stem or branch 

 of about 4in., with much of white wool about the inflorescence. Leaves 

 linear-cuneate or linear, about ^in. long. Clusters of flower-heads globose, 

 very young. Bracts narrow, scarious, woolly, with glabrous pink appendages, 

 very numerous but most of them apparently belong to the partial involucres, 

 a very few forming a general involucre to the cluster. Partial heads 1 or 2 

 flowered. Corolla slender, 5-toothed. Achenes densely covered with long 

 wool, without any pappus. — Skiriophorus eriocarpus, F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 156 



Hab.: Inland towards Cooper's Creek. 



2. G. cyathopappa (pappus cup-shaped), Benth. Fl. Aiistr. iii. 571. 

 Rigid, erect, and corymbosely branched, some specimens appearing annual 

 and simple at the base, others with a hard and woody base, with numerous 

 stems, but none above 6in. high, all nearly glabi?ous or woolly tomentose, 

 especially about the inflorescence. Leaves linear, rather short. Clusters of 

 flower-heads turbinate, very numerous in a dense corymb, surrounded by a 

 few small outer empty bracts like the subtending ones, but without the 

 yellow appendage. , Receptacle small, convex or obovoid. Partial heads 2 

 flowered, very shortly stipitate and usually 2 within the same subtending 

 bract. Bracts scarcely woolly, narrow, with a short broad yellow deciduous 

 appendage, 4 or 5 outer ones of each involucre and the subtending one 

 narrower and more persistent than the 4 or 5 inner very deciduous ones. 

 Pappus cup-shaped, as long as the slender part of the floret, slightly toothed 

 or jagged, falling off with the corolla. — Cyatliopappits gnephouoides or Cepha- 

 losorus gnephosioides, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 158. 



Hab.: Southern inland localities. , 



3. G. arachnoidea (cobwebby), Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1851, i. 189 ! 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 571. A slender, erect, corymbosely-branched annual, 

 usually 6in. to 1ft. high, glabrous except the inflorescence or more or less 

 woolly-tomentose. Leaves very narrow, linear or subulate. Clusters of flower- 

 heads nearly globose, about 2 lines diameter, surrounded by a few small 

 empty scarious bracts, without any appendage, the subtending ones within 

 the cluster cuneate-pblong, all except sometimes the lower ones with a small 

 broad decidious lamina. Partial heads 2-flowered, very shortly stipitate and 

 sometimes 2 or 3 within 1 subtending bract. Involucral bracts oblong-cuneate, , 



