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while in others, as the two species referred to Eupatorium by M. Labillardiere, they form a short radius. These I am inclined to consider merely sections of one and the same genus, which may be distinguished by the following character, and named

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Involucrum imbricatum, scariosum, coloratum. Recep- taculum epaleatum, glabrum. Flo-sculi (pauciores quam 20) tubulosi, vel omnes hermaphrodite vel paucissimi feminei angustiores in ambitu. Anther a (inclusae), basi bisetae. Stigmata apice obtuso subtruncato hispidulo. Pappus sessilis, pilosus, nunc penicillatus, persistens.

Frutices (Novae. Hollandiae et Novae Zelandiae, vix Africae australis,) graveolentes, tomentosi. Folia sparsa, integerrima, marginibus scepius recurvis. Inflorescentia terminalis, corymbosa v. congesta. Involucra alba v. cinerea : squamis intimis nunc conformibus et conniventibus ; nunc laminis patulis niveis radium brevem obtusum effor- matitibus. Corollulae lutece. Pappus albus.

The fourth species added to Galea by Willclenow is Galea leptophylla of Forster, whose specimens I have exa- mined in Mr. Lambert'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 after- wards removed it, probably on finding it referred to Calea in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks, by whom it was dis- covered in New Zealand in a more perfect, 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 near])

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