Tap. 7983. 
HELIPTERUM SPLENDIDUM. 
Native of Western Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Comrosit2.—Tribe INuLOIDE. 
Genus Heuipreaum, DO. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 308.) 
HeELipteRvM splendidum; herba annua, glabra, erecta, 9-18 poll. alta, caulibus 
gracilibus simplicibus superne aphyllis monocephalis, foliis glaucis 
sessilibus linearibus maximis sesquipollicaribus obtusis integerrimis, 
capitulis erectis usque ad 3} poll. diametro, involucri bracteis scariosis 
glabris multiseriatis seriebus 4 vel 5 exterioribus multo minoribus ovatis 
obtusis brunneis extimis minimis ceteris albis lineari-lanceolatis 1-12 
poll. longis vix acutis breviter unguiculatis ungue leviter incrassato, 
paucis interioribus supra prope basin auguste purpureo-zonatis, floribus 
numerosissimis aureis, corollis omnibus tubulosis lobis erectis, pappi setis 
circiter 10 longe plumosis corollam equantibus vel superantibus, acheeniis 
ciliato-bialatis maturis non visis. 
H. splendidum, Hemsl, n. sp. 
Kew is indebted to Mr. G, F. Berthoud, of Waroona, 
near Drakesbrook, W. Australia, for dried specimens and 
seeds of this handsome plant, which he labelled :— 
** Native of North-western Districts.” There are also 
herbarium specimens collected in open plains at Menzies, 
about a hundred miles north of Coolgardie, in about 
29° 30’ S. lat. and 121° E. long., by Cecil Andrews. His 
specimens are named Helichrysum Davenportii, F. Muell. 
There is no authenticated specimen of this at Kew, but 
Bentham (Fl. Austral. vol. iii. p. 616) places it as a 
variety of Helichrysum Lawrencella, F. Muell. (syn. 
Lawrencella rosea, Lind).), remarking that he was disposed 
to rank it as a distinct species. Mueller (Fragm. Phytogr. 
Austral, vol. ii. p. 32) refers it to what he denominates 
section Acroclinium of Helichrysum, from which it would 
appear that, at that date, he contemplated uniting Helip- 
terum with Helichrysum. 
As a matter of fact our plant is most nearly related to 
Helipterum voseum, Benth. (syn. Acroclinium roseum, 
Hook., Bot. Mag. t. 4801), from which Mueller’s descrip- 
tion differs in essential particulars. 
H. splendidum is indeed a very showy member of the 
Novemser Ist, 1904, 
