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Order RUBIACEA, 
Tris—E SPERMACOCEZ. 
SPERMACOCE, Linn. 
§. pogostoma, var. hispida (n. f.) Plant clothed with short 
somewhat stiff white hairs. Stems procumbent, with erect branches from 
6tol2in. high. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 2 to 14 in. lon g, the 
short almost pungent point often recurved, margins revolute. Stipular 
sheath and bristles of medium length. Calyx-lobes lanceolate with 
tipe capsules on the specimens examined. 
ab.: Musgrave Telegraph Station, Cape York Peninsula, Geo. Jacobson. — 
Order COMPOSITZ. 
Tring INULOIDEA. 
HELICHRYSUM, Gertn. 
Srction Ozornamnus. 
H. cinereum, F. v. I. in Fi. Austr. iii. 629. (Chrysocoma 
cinerea, Labill., Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 39, t. 182 An erect much- 
gabrous above, tomentose underneath, sometimes very narrow, some- 
ines thick ard rather broad. Flower-heads small and numerous, in 
net 
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th or wi 
mnute scarcely spreading white tips. Florets 15 to 20 or rather more, 
br few of the outer ones female. Achenes papillose. Pappus- 
stles serrulate, slightly thickened upwards.— FF, v. AL. Le. 
Hab. ; Cunningham’s Gap, Main Range, C. J. Gwyther. 
‘Trin HELIANTHOIDES. 
GLOSSOGYNE, Cass. 
Ff. », M., Vict. Nat. Nov. 1891. Stems attaining 
omewhat woody at the base, few-branched. 
: bout 
ves long, the lower often reflexed and some of these undivided, the 
h 6 the uppermost leaves few remote, undivided, linear. Flower- 
“ads solitarily terminating elongated, simple, peduncle-like branches. 
acts rather numerous, somewhat scarious towards the 
th thus far soon reflexed; floral bracts bluntish, receptacle 
2. pple. (Florets not sent with specimens.) Achenes numerous, 
ues ong, compressed, narrow, blackish, streaked; awns 2, 
shightly retrohispidulous, often only barbed at the point. The 
almost concealing the achenes, gives to this plant a distinctive 
Cter to @. tenuifolia; the leaves are also longer and the segments 
eee WD Le: 
— | Mab: Near the South Coen River, Stephen Johnson. 
