Australian “ Everlastings,” and if its cultivation in pots 
should prove as easy as that of Helipterum Manglesii, 
F. Muell. (syn. Rhodanthe Manglesit, Lindl., ‘* Botanical 
Register,”’ t. 1703) there is a big future before it. Several 
varieties of the latter are represented in this Magazine. 
The typical form (t. 3483) is perhaps the prettiest, and 
tt. 5283 and 5290 are-colour variations of an ornamental 
character. 
Unfortunately the plants raised at Kew flowered in April, 
and under unfavourable conditions, as to sunlight, produced 
no seed. . 
Descr.—An annual, glabrous, erect herb, nine to 
eighteen inches high. Stems slender, simple, leafless in 
the upper part bearing one head of flowers. Leaves 
alternate, sessile, glaucous, linear, the largest an inch and 
a half long, obtuse, entire. Flower-heads erect, the 
largest three inches and a half across. Bracts of the 
involucre glabrous, scarious, in very many series, those 
of the four or five outer series much smaller than the 
inner, ovate, obtuse, brown, outermost very small, the 
rest white, linear-lanceolate, one inch to one and a half 
long, scarcely acute, shortly clawed, claw thickened, a few 
of the innermost having a narrow, purple band on the 
upper surface near the base. flowers very numerous, all 
tubular, yellow. Corolla-lobes erect. Pappus of about ten 
very feathery bristles, equalling or slightly exceeding the 
corolla. Achenes 2-winged ; wings fringed.— W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2, anthers; 3, upper part of style and stigmas:—ad/ 
enlarged, 
