Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
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232<br />
PtUotiis macrotrichus (F. M. Fragm. iv. 90) inter plantas sextae<br />
collectionis Drummondi sub 222 a fluvio Murcbisoni exstat. Villi<br />
sepalorum edentuli. Pericarpium lseve, nitidum, mox fulvidum.<br />
Forsan ad hancce plantarn pertinet species ex archipelago Dam-<br />
pierii a Wickbam et Stokes allata.<br />
Ptilotus latifolius (Br. in Start's Central Australia ii. App. 88)<br />
a P. macrotricho discernitur lanugine ramorum densiore, foliis<br />
latioribus s•pe longe petiolatis, bractea bracteolis et calyce major-<br />
ibus, sepalis lanugine involvente longioribus mox in unguem<br />
longiusculum apterum attenuatis non penicillari-villosis, stylo<br />
paulo • longiore. In clivis arenosis ad Wills-Creek, nionentibus<br />
Howitt et Murray, altitudinem 2' attinet.<br />
Ptilotus c•spitulosus.<br />
Caulibus crebre ramosis repentibus, foliis parvis glabris subu-<br />
lato-linearibus mucronulatis itiferioribus in c•spitulum conjertis,<br />
capitulis terminalibus solitariis paene semiovatis, bracteolis fere<br />
rotundis acutiusculis calycem vix semiaequantibus bractea; orbicu-<br />
lari-ovatas acuminatas glabras fere asquilongis, sepalis breviusculis<br />
apicem versus nudis, villis sepalorem crebre denticulato-nodosis,<br />
antheris ovalibus, filamentis perbrevibus inasqualibus apice capil-<br />
laribus, stylo sepalis pluries superato glabro.<br />
In Australia occidentali ; Drummond, 189.<br />
Planta liabitu congeneribus aliena, Laxmannias facie. Rhizoma<br />
perenne, teretiusculuin, procurrens. Ramuli breves, conferti, foliosi.<br />
Folia semipollicaria v. breviora, saspe curvata, inferiora fasciculata<br />
et basi paulo incrassata. Rami floriferi fere digitales, foliis saltern<br />
ex parte sparsis prasditi. Capitula vix semipollicaria. Bracteas et<br />
bracteolas fere 2'" longos. Sépala circiter 4'" longa, inferne margine<br />
tenus villosula, superne flavido-pallescentia, apice obtusiuscula.<br />
Articuli villorum saspe diámetro vix ter breviores. Stamina 2<br />
vidi fertilia. Antlieras \'" longas, fuscas. Stylus vix lineam me-<br />
tiens. Fructus ienotus.<br />
Ptilotus arthrolasius.<br />
Ramosus, filis articulatis crispulis pubescens, foliis oblongo-<br />
lanceolatis muticis, spicis capitatis f'ere ovatis solitariis terminali-<br />
bus breviter pedunculatis,bracteolis ovato-rotundis brevi-acuminatis<br />
enervas fere glabris bracteam ovatam acutam inferne pilosulam<br />
asquantibus, calyce parvo bracteolas •quante penicillari-villoso,<br />
villis lasvibus remotiuscule articulatis, antberis cordato-ovatis,<br />
stylo perbrevi.<br />
Ad rivum Sturt's Creek. F. M.<br />
Indumentum breve, fulvescens. Folia circiter pollicem longa,<br />
in petiolum brevem angustata. Pedunculi semipollicares vel bre-