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P L A T E CCCCXXVIII.
E L Y C H R I S U M ST^HELINA.
Stoelielina-lihe Eternalißower.
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C L A S S XIX. ORDER IL
SYNGENESIS POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous
Polygamy.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
RECEPTACULUM nudum. Pappus pilosus, vel
plumosus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus,
radio colorato.
RECEPTACLE naked. Down hairy, or feathery.
Empalement imbricated, rayed, with the
ray coloured.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
ELYCHKISÜM, frQticosum, erectum, foliis
oblongo-lanceolatis basi attenuatis sericeis,
pedunculis nudis unifloris terminalibus,
mild. Sp. PI. 3. 1910.
ELYCHRISUM, shrubby, erect, with leaves
oblong-lanced attenuated at tlie baseband
silky, and terminal naked one-flowered
peduncles.
XEKANTHEMUM (Staehelina) pedunculis terminalibus exertis nudis unifloris, foliis lanceolatis tomentosis.
Syst. Feg. 624.
XERANTHEMOM foliis lanceolato-oblongis carinatis lanatis, caule erecto. Thunl. Proci. 153.
OBS. Caulis lignosus, tener^ paniculato-ramosus, ut tota herba albo-tomentosus. Pedunculi longi
terminales. JVilld. 1, c.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower cut open.
2. An hermaphrodite floret with its down.
3. The same without the down.
4. The same spread open.
5. The seed-bud and pointal, with the summit detached and magnified.
IN the last volume of Willdenow's Species Plantarum, containing the great class Syngenesia, are
found many valuable botanical alterations and amendments, respecting the division and distribution
of the genera and species ; and amongst others, we find the Linnasan genus Xeranthemum, and even
its species the annaum, with its supposed variety the inapertum, divided and arranged exactly after
the manner proposed in our account of X. bracteatum (Plate 3/5), now Elychrisum bracteatuni :
those few species only being now called Xeranthema which have a squamous receptacle: viz. ths
anniwm, and inapertum, of European origin; and the orientale, a native of Armenia.
The plant here depicted was drawn from a living specimen in the Clapham collection, last December,
where at first it only tlirew up one flower-stalk ; but it has since become stronger, and shows a peduncle
from the end of almost every branch.
Although this species comes nearer Elychrisnm in its generic characters than to any other genus,
Gnaphalium not excepted, yet still we cannot help remarking, how much it recedes from the externalappearance
of most of its congeners, in being quite destitvUe of radiating scales.
It is a green-house plant, a native of the Cape, and is propagated by cuttings; but is not at present
in any collection we are acquainted with, except Mr. Hibbei t's.
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