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P L A T E CCCLXXXVII.
X E R A N T H E M U M RIGIDUM.
Rigid-leaved Eternal Flower.
C L A S S XIX. O R D E R II.
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous
Pointals.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
RECEPTACULTJM paleaceum, aut nudum. Pappus
setaceus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus ;
radio colorato.
RECEPTACLE chaffy, or naked. Feather bristly.
Empalement tiled, rayed; the ray coloured.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER, &C.
XERANTHEMUM, floribus parias panîculatis ;
foliis villosis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis
vi ridi bus.
XEKANTHEMUM, with Small paniculated
flowers; and hairy linear-lanced sharppointed
green leaves.
DESCRIPTIO. SufFrutex, ramulis teretibus, subflexuosis, villosis. ib^ia, superiora remotiora, alterna,
amplexicaulia, lineari-lanceolata^ acuminata, canaliculata, rigida, villosa, viridia, superne patula.
Flores paniculati, terminales, par\'i in hoc genere, et inconspicui. Pedunculi lanuginoso-villosi,
bracteati. Calyces argentei. Corolluloe flavicantes.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A scale of the empalement.
2. One of the hermaphrodite florets magnified.
3. The chives and pointal.
4. The receptacle.
THE plant here delineated is by no means a conspicuous one; nevertheless, as it is a genuine member
of a favourite genus, and at the same time a new species, and almost the last of its fine family we
shall be able to present to our readers, it cannot fail to be acceptable to them.
The present species is a weak shrubby plant, flowers freely, and succeeds with the treatment of the
other eternal flowers, and is propagated in the same manner : and was lately raised from Cape seeds at
our never-failing source of rare plants, the choice collection of G. Hibbert, esq. where the figure
here given was made in May last.
It is very closely allied to X. argenteum of our 327th plate, which is the X. paniculatum of
Thunberg and the younger Linnaeus.
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