“10 ‘Contributions to the Queensland Flori. 
Order CUCURBITACER. 
CUCUMIS, Linn, 
*C. Anguria, Linn. West Indian Gherkin. Annual, hirsute, Stems 
angular, rough, Leaves villous-hispid beneath, usually deeply 5-lobed, 
sometimes 3 or 7 lobed, lobes obovate or spathulate, denticulate, 
Flowerr small, on slender peduncles, Fruit ovoid, muricate with rigid 
spinules, 
Hab.: Naturalised about Townsville, C. T. White. Supposed to be a native 
of the West Indies. 
Order COMPOSITE. 
HELICHRYSUM, Gaertn, 
H. obcordatum, F. v. M., var. major, Benth., F\, Austr, (11, 632, 
An erect shrub, 2-5 ft. high, branches cottony-white or nearly glabrous. 
Leaves broadly obovate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole, under 
2 in. long, glabrous above, pale or white underneath. Flower-heads 
small and numerous in a dense terminal corymb. Involucre narrow, 
about 2 lines long, straw-coloured, the bracts concave and loosely 
imbricate, without coloured tips, Florets about 12, a few of the outer 
ones female. Achenes angular, glabrous or pappillate. Pappus-bristles 
not at all or scarcely thickened upwards. 
Hab. : Stanthorpe, H. Wright. This variety is recorded from New South Wales 
and Victoria. The normal form occurs in Tasmania 
*SYNEDRELLA, Geertn. 
Heads small, heterogamous, radiate ; ray-florets 1-2 seriate, fertile, 
ligule 2-3 toothed, yellow; disk-florets, hermaphrodite, fertile, tubular, 
limb 4 toothed. Involucre ovoid or oblong, bracts few, outer 1 or 2 
usually foliaceous ; receptacle small, Achenes of the ray dorsally 
compressed, 2-winged, wings lacerate ; achenes of the disk narrower, 
compressed, or triquetrous, often muricate, the angles of both ter- 
minating in spines, Annual, branched, pubescent or villous herbs, 
Leaves opposite, petioled, toothed, 
*§. nodiflora, Garin. An erect dichotomously branched herb. 
Stem and branches terete, glabrous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, shortly 
petiolate, serrate, scaberulous, 3-nerved. Heads sessile, axillary, and 
terminal ; inner involucral bracts, linear-lanceolate, shining, Achenes 
slender, black, spines 2-3 times as long, erect, stout, 
Hab. : Naturalised about Cairns, E. W. Bick. A native of Tropical America ; 
for some years naturalised in India and Malay Archipelago; has now made its 
appearance in Tropical Queensland. 
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