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360, 4-lobed. Anthers obtuse at the base. Style-branches of the disc-florets short, truncate. Achenes scarcely compressed, obtusely 3–4-ribbed or -angled. Pappus wanting.

1. C. orbicularis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. ii. 493.—A strong-smelling prostrate or suberect much -branched glabrous or sparsely woolly annual; stems 3–9 in. long, spreading from the root. Leaves ¼–⅔ in. long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate or obovate-oblong, narrowed at the base, sparingly irregularly toothed or almost pinnatifid, glabrous or rarely hairy. Heads ⅛–¼ in. diam., globose, solitary, axillary, sessile or rarely on very short peduncles; involucral bracts broadly oblong, membranous. Female florets very numerous; corolla minute, 4-lobed. Disc-florets few; corolla campanulate. Achenes tetragonous, slightly hairy.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 329. Myriogyne minuta. ''Less. in Linnæa,'' vi. (1831) 219; ''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 444; Raoul, Choix, 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 130; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iii. 553. Cotula minuta, ''Forst. Prodr. n. 301; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 235; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 144.

Glabrous perennial herbs, always of small size, often moss-like. Leaves alternate, imbricate, quite entire. Heads small, solitary or crowded in little terminal corymbs, heterogamous and discoid. Involucre campanulate; bracts few, in about 2 series, nearly equal or the outer shorter. Eeceptacle small, naked. Female florets exterior, in 1 series, tubular, 3–4-toothed, fertile. Disc-florets hermaphrodite or male, tubular, 4-toothed. Anthers obtuse or shortly pointed at the base. Style-branches of the disc-florets very short, truncate. Achenes 4-angled or -ribbed, clavate, terete or compressed. Pappus wanting.