° ( ^5G T ] WWM$«M* ftoffl .«r Vvioria: New Specirt rtr, 97 



QLEAKIA ALGiDrt jp. nov ( ; a 0. floribunda iHk.f.) Jienth. 



rl'rtli'is, 5Cd foti J5 ptfTCraSKij ^essilibus :.Vjh;nn*culniisdi*1inp,Mimr, .-Cfc aftni- 

 tatc 0. l<f*ithf>hyfku' (Pcts-J FVnth .*. qua fecedit Mils at) Kimulos Qpll 

 appieseis, ct ah ntrnnjie bract e is gjtfdfaru practerea diffvrt. 



(fol,,tvpe: Bogong Ml- Victoria; Jan. H>?2; frtf A J TaUgcM fJA'El - 

 duplicates 1o be sent to K and NSW 1 ), 



Lwiuja sessile in loose cluster*, broadly ovate, usually 1-i mm. *>oni; 

 zuricuiAte, thick, bhu'.\, ife margins revfllnte, the upper sur laces siuool'n and 

 glabrous; flowcr-hcads senile in leaf-thiWs lateral OH J"' hrancki*; 

 imv»hirra1 bracts blunt, glabrous. 



Uislrilxukm J Afea o»' iOUih-easicm Australia (New Stttflh WflA^l — 

 Mt:i.1j'3Hg_ Ml&. , VktoHa — Mtfi. Buffalo, Bogong - , Pi: i >v faws T>*nia ii?r 

 Middlesex IMain&, Great Lake). 



Tliii &pedes include* the O. ir^tophytht \atv, fawt'nitwi Hook. '• - rf - Jujm 

 J. ITS: ami specimens of ir wen variously identified in the Mclbnonk. 

 National Herbarium collections a« O. l-rpirlaf'hylfu and G jlMi(>nitdt>, 



APPKNDIX: K ON -VICTORIAN SPECIES 

 Oi.HAh'lA BKALiiYPItVLL.t fcft MiwIJ. ex SosKt.) com}?. nov. 

 Absolute Synonym fcvr\t)i\i Opacity f^tytia R Much. <*x :Snnrl. JLttMiAfii 

 i5: 455 £1853), 



Eauivale*ii Synanvm; #W cxt-Hfntius F Muett F/.Ufih Pt>vi, .hi,\i S 

 69 (1865); OhttTia - r.ciliftitia (P Mucll.) Beuth, /,r ■ 47o.' 



The type specimens trf each of ihe. above plant* are to the Melbourne 

 National Herbarium, and they arc certainly couspecifk*. 



In most respects O. bra<;hyfrl\ylfo h similar to 0, fhtit>nmhi. but »l can 

 he distinguished at once by iu sessile broad -based leaves, and the lignles of 

 10c ray-florets arc normally not longer than their stylo*. There art* some 

 vpecimens however with well-developed ligules. 



0. hnuhyfihythi ia apparently confined to South Australia The Mlttcilni 

 ut>oti which a Victorian record of the species was based (as ('). it.r Hi folia, ill 

 MurJUrui. i: 30) jj actually of O. fuM'/Iom (Sond. el F. MttelJ.) tfeuth 

 with the ligiJes of the ray-iloiets abnoMnally well developed 



Of.H-iRf 1 FKfCtVDRS (Stccw.) romb urn 



Syn, : '/Lnrybui, triatufcs Steetz PK Prciss. 1 - 42.1 



Holotypc; Located at MEL (ex Herb. Souder). 



Branchlets -Jz crcet; Jcavcs ohloo^r, blunt, the niav*;ms rcvolutc, mostly 

 3-5 itnn loii£,, sc^^He with broad Uysei. UMtfilly actdcaU--tulien;td«te, vrccl 

 nlbliK the stems or somewhat spreading and subtending erect cuillary elusrers 

 ot tdiortur leaves; flower-heads sessile, terniiuatintr loon or short brane.hlets ; 

 the iovuluct'al tu'acts acute 1 , the whole plain very viscid (ou stems, leaves 

 and tracts) with a Jittlc cottony vesttturc. 



DUtribuiion : Mio-eastern to soiitheru J'aitnania. 



pr unifies is well di-Sliugiu^hcJ horn 0- roittitJof under wind' Benll^n*' 

 synony mixed it. 



(ILEARiA HOOKER1 (Sond.) 13eoi.. Ic 483. 



5yu Eurybia haokcri Sond. /,i\: 463. 



A ttfeeinieii located at MEL, ex Herb Sondcr, ;s *aken to be tlw iwfoivftr 

 or this species; it is certainly ihe specimen to winch the oiagnosis a^phes. .m.' 

 it ii citett by the author before he sets one any synonymy. 



My ihmil<? are again due 10 the Director oi the .National Herbarium •.»( 

 Victoria for the opportunity to investigate material ill that iiistitmkm- 



♦ MIL — National Hefh&dtltn "1 Vicloria. Alrllnntrno. K Kcval XSotani? Gardens. S>« . 

 loifiUnd, NSW — N*tional Herkirunn nt S*w S.->vfl WfaJjs. Vyrlnpy. 



