588 NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS PROM NEW SOUTH WALES, 
Leaves linear, 2 inches long at the base and decreasing in size 
on the stems on some specimens, while in others 4 inches long at 
the base, decreasing to 2 inches long on the stem, the upper ones 
stem-clasping and decurrent, tapering from the base upwards, 
margins recurved, glabrous above, woolly underneath, but midrib 
prominent, basal leaves with a loose cottony down. 
Flower heads small, on filiform peduncles. Involucre hemi- . 
spherical, rarely exceeding 3 lines, the scarious laminae of the 
bracts rugose, imbricate, ovate or acuminate, decurrent on the 
whole length of the claw of the inner row of bracts; the claw of 
the outer bract very short but gradually lengthening to a long 
linear one on the penultimate or innermost row but one; the claws 
glandular. Florets yellow, all exceeding the involucre, the outer 
ones about 3 lines long, ligulate, shortly 3- or Globed. 
Pappus bristles fine, not thickened upwards, shortly barbellate. 
Achenes glabrous. 
Hah.— Bathurst, N.S.W. (W. J. C. Ross). 
Analysis showing differences from cognate species : — 
Involucre large, laminae very acute 
acuminate, not rugose. Stem 
leaves slightly decurrent, basal 
leaves oblong lanceolate P. acuminata, R.Br. 
Involucre small, about 3 lines, outer 
laminae very obtuse, inner ones 
acuminate, rugose, stem leaves 
decurrent, basal leaves linear ... P. rubida. 
Involucre 6-8 lines, laminae very 
acute, not rugose; annual P. canescens, A. Cunn. 
It is not easy to indicate the relative position of this species 
in Bentham's classification of Podolepis. It is placed between 
the two above mentioned species, but it could with perhaps equal 
fitness be also placed between P. Lessoni and P. Siemssenia. The 
large flowers and large basal leaves of P. acuminata at once 
separate it from that species, as do also the acute laminae and 
deep incision of the ray florets. 
