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X E R A N T H E M U M FRA G R A N S .
Fj-agranf Xerantliemum,
C L A S S XIX. ORDER IL
SYNGEJVESL4 POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united Superfluous.
ESS£NTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
E e c e p t a b u l um paleaceutn aut nudLim. Pappus
setaceus. Calyx irabricatus, radiatus :
radio colorato.
R e c e p t a c l e chafFy, or naked. Feather bristly.
Empalement tiledj rayed : the ray coloured.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
X e r a n t h e m um foliis undulatis, lanatis^ apice
reflexis : floribus parvis, odoratis^ terminalibus
: radiis calycis exterioribus rubris :
radio interiore albo.
Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei.
Xeranthemum with waved woolly leaves reflexed
at the point : flowers small, sweetscented
and terminal : the outer rays of the
empalement red, the inner one white.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A scale from the outer ray of the empalement.
2. A scale from the inner ray.
3. A flower of the disk.
T h i s little Xeranthemum is a native of the Cape, perfectly new, and very sweet-scented. As fragrance
is very unusual in this fine tribe of plants, we have on that account considered it as a good specific
title It was introduced to thetClapham gardens about the year 1803 ; and as we have not seen
it since that period, we are inclined to think it is not at present in this country. In the herbarium oF
A. B. Lambert, esq. we found a fine native specimen of an unnamed species very much resembling our
plant, but with a profusiori of flowers—a habit which ours would in all probability have assumed as
soon as it had been familiarized to the change of climate.
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