natural Family of Plants called Composites. 
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OzOTHAMNUS. 
Involucrum imbricatum, scariosum, coloratum. Peceptaculum epa- 
Jeatum, glabrum. Flosculi (pauciores quam 20) tubulosi, vel 
omnes hermaphroditi, vel paucissimi feminei angustiores in 
ambitu. Antherce (inclusae,) basi bisetrc. Stigmata apice obtuso 
subtruncato hispidulo. Pappus sessilis, pilosus, nunc penicilla¬ 
tus, persistens. 
Frutices{ Novae Hollandiieet Novae* Zelandiae,vix Africee australis,) 
graveolentcs , tomentosi. Folia sparsa, integerrima , ?narginibus see- 
pi us recurvis. Inflorescentia terminalis , corymbosa v. congesta. 
involucra alba v. cinerca : squamis intimis nunc conformibus et con- 
niventibus ; nunc laniinis patulis niveis radium brevem obtusum ef- 
formantibus. Corollulae lutees. Pappus albus. 
Th e fourth species added to Calea by Willdenow is Calea lepto - 
phylla of Forster, whose specimens I have examined in Mr. Lam¬ 
bert’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 afterwards removed it, probably on finding it referred 
to Calea in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks, by whom it was 
discovered in New Zealand in a more peifect, at least in a more 
luxuriant state. 
This plant, though agreeing with Calea 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 Calea aculeata of M. Labillardiere, and several other species 
also natives of New Holland and Van Diemen’s Island, constitutes 
a genus very nearly related to Ozothamnus, from which it is to be 
distinguished chiefly by the paleai of its receptacle. 
I propose 
