( 1773 ) 



Elichrysum splendens. Shining 

 Elichrysum. 



C7«ss «rcd Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. 



Generic Character. 



Recept. nudum, Pappus pilosus vel plumosus. Cal. im- 

 bricatus, radiatus : radio colorato. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



Elichrysum splendens ; caule fruticoso prolifero : ramulis 

 unifloris, foliis lanceolatis margine reyolutis, squamis 

 calycinis splendentibus. 



Xeranthemum herbaceum. Bot. Repos. 4.87 ? 



The annual Xeranthemums, natives of Europe and the 

 Levant, differing- essentially from the Cape shrubby species, 

 in having* a chaffy, not naked, receptacle, and a different 

 pappus, the latter have been separated by Willdenow, under 

 the name of Elichrysum, by which they had been known to 

 botanists, till superseded by the system of Linn^us. This 

 arrangement has been adopted in the Hortus Kewensis, and 

 consequently all that we have figured under the name of 

 Xeranthemum, are to be found there, under that of Eli- 

 chrysum. 



A specimen of the same species as our present plant is 

 preserved in the Banksian Herbarium, under the name which 

 we have adopted. 



From the figure and description of Xeranthemum her- 

 baceum in the Botanist's Repository, we can hardly think 

 that our plant can belong to the same, although the flowers 

 seem very similar ; as the stem of Elichrysum splendens, 

 though slender, is shrubby, erect, and branched. The 



flowers 



