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while in others, as the two species referred to Eupatorium 

 by M. Labillardiere, they form a short radius. These I 

 am inclined to consider merely sections of one and the 

 same genus, which may be distinguished by the following 

 character, and named 



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OZOTHAMNUS. [135 



Involucrum imbricatum, scariosum, coloratum. Mecep- 

 taculum epaleatum, glabrum. Flo-acuK (pauciores qiiam 

 20) tubulosi, vel omnes hermaphroditi, vel paucissimi 

 feminei angustiores in ambitu. Antherce (inclusBe), basi 

 bisetee. SUgn^ata apice obtuso subtruncato hispidulo. 

 Pappus sessilis, pilosus, nunc penicillatus, persistens. 



Frutices (Novae Hollandise et Novae Zelandiae, vix 

 Africae australis,) graveolentes, tomentosi. Folia sparsa, 

 integerrima, marginibus scspius recurvis. Inflorescentia 

 terminalis, corgmbosa v. congesta. Involucra alba v. 

 cinerea : squamis intimis nunc conformibus et conniventibus ; 

 nunc laminis patulis niveis radium brevem ohtusum effor- 

 mantibus. Corollulse lutecs. Pappus albus. 



The fourth species added to Galea by Willdenow is 

 Galea leptophglla of Forster, whose specimens I have exa- 

 mined in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium. Amongst Forster's 

 drawings, formerly referred to, there is a coloured figure of 

 this plant, by which it appears that he originally considered 

 it to belong to Gnaphalium. From this genus he after- 

 wards removed it, probably on finding it referred to Galea 

 in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks, by whom it was dis- 

 covered in New Zealand in a more perfect, at least in a 

 more luxuriant state. 



This plant, though agreeing with Galea in every part of 

 the Linnean essential character, differs remarkably from it 

 in other points of nearly equal importance, as well as in 

 habit ; and along with Galea aculeata of M. Labillardiere, 

 and several other species also natives of New Holland and 

 Van Piemen's Island, constitutes a genus very nearly 



