SyneenesiA Potyeamia SuperFt 
Generic Character. 
Recept. nudum. Pappus pilosus, s. plumosus. Cal. imbri- 
eatus: squamis marginalibus rotundatis, scariosis, coloratis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
*** Herbacea, Chrysocoma. 
GnaPHALium apiculatum ; foliis subspathulatis utrinque to- 
mentosis mucronulatis, floribus paniculatis, calycinis 
squamis-ciliatis, pappo apice plumoso. =| 
GnarHatium apiculatum; herbaceum foliis subspathulatis 
tomentosis apice nudis membranaceis subulatisve, flori- 
bus paniculatis, calycinis squamis ciliatis. Liabillard. 
Nov. Holl. 2. p. 43. t. 188. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 
15. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 418. Bot. Reg. 240, 
This is a very beautiful species of Everlasting from the 
brilliancy of its golden coloured flowers. The leaves are 
covered with a white cottony pubescence on both sides, which, 
in the old leaves, sometimes disappears on the upper surface ; 
the point of the leaf is terminated with a tawny, mnocuous 
mucro, sometimes elongated, but generally short, and often 
not seen in the older leaves: it seems to be a continuation of 
the membranous portion of the leaf, denuded of its pubes- 
cence. It is this we suppose that afforded to Lanittarpiere 
the name of apiculatum. This species deviates from the 
character of the genus in baying the outer scales of the calyx 
acute, 
