Tas. 5604. 
HELIPTERUM Coruna. 
Cotula-flowered Everlasting. 
Nat. Ord. Composirz.—SynqEenesia SUPERFLUA. 
Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, nunc homogamum, floribus omnibus 
hermaphroditis tubulosis 5-dentatis ; nunc heterogamum, fl. radii uniseri- 
atis sepe paucissimis foemineis gracilibus. Involwerwm imbricatum, squa- 
mis scariosis, interioribus conniventibus v. radiantibus. Receptaculum pla- 
num, epaleaceum, nunc nudum v. areolatum, nune fimbrilliferum. Achenia 
erostria, sessilia, areola terminali. Pappus 1-serialis, plumosus.— Herbee 
aut suffrutices Austro-Africane et Australasice. 
Hetirrervm Cotula; herbaceum, laxe pilosum v. subvillosum, ramis elon- 
gatis gracilibus simpliciusculis 1-cephalis, foliis filiformibus, involucri 
squamis radiantibus albis v. aureis, interioribus oblongis subacutis, 
intimis sepe abbreviatis, pappi setis sursum dilatatis longe plumosis, 
achenio glaberrimo. 
Heiprerum Cotula. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 215. 
Hewiprervm citrinum. Steetz in Plant. Preiss. v. 1. p. 474. 
Hewiprervm simplex. Steetz, 1. c. p. 475. 
Heviprerum precox. F. Muell. in Herb. Hook. 
Heicurysum (Helipterum) Cotula. Benth. in Huegel Enum. p. 65. 
A very beautiful West Australian Everlasting, for the seeds 
of which we are indebted to Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, in 
whose establishment, and that of Kew, it flowered in May 
of the present year. ‘The seeds were sent from Swan River 
by the son of the late T. Drummond, the veteran explorer of 
the vegetable riches of that country, and the introducer of 
most of the beautiful plants we possess from it. Like some 
other species of this genus, H. Cotula bears heads of two 
colours, golden-yellow and white, but I have seen no inter- 
mediates, and the individual plants have one-coloured heads ; 
the white-headed variety is the H. Cotula, the yellow H. citri- 
num, whilst H. simplex seems founded upon weak unbranched 
specimens. ‘The plants appear to be common in South-West 
Australia. 
OCTOBER Ist, 1866. 
