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ELICHRYSUM PROLIFERUM. PROLIFEROUS 
EVERLASTING. 
KEKE REE ERE KEKE RE 
Class and Order. 
SyYNGENESIA PotyGamMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Generic Character. 
Recept. nudum. -Pappus poss vel plumosus. Cal. im- 
bricatus, radiatus : radio colorato. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ELicurysum - proliferum; fruticosum, ramosum, diffusum, 
proliferum, foliis subrotundo-ovatis glabris convexis 
arcte imbricatis, floribus sessilibus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. 
Pp. 1905. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 22. | 
Euicurysum proliferum ; caule ramosissimo argenteo-tomen- 
toso, ramo omni ramusculis crebris foliatura obesa mi- 
- Nuta loricatis obsito. Bot. Reg. 21. es 
Xrrantuemum proliferum; caule fruticoso prolifero, flori- 
bus sessilibus, foliis granulato-subrotundis imbricatis 
obsoletis. Sp. Pl. 1202. Berg. Cap. 272. Lam. En- 
cycl. 3. p. 237. n.8. Bot. Repos. 374. 
ERANTHEMUM africanum, imis Gnaphalii foliis, supernis ve- 
ro cupressinis teretifoliis, flore maximo Persice colore. 
Pluk. Amalth. 213. t. 449. f. 4. ee 
Eucurysum abrotani femine foliis. Breyn. Prodr. II. 28. 
t.17. f. 1. Seb. Thes. 2. t. 89. 7.6. quoad figuram. 
Caruiwa Xeranthemoides africana, abrotani femina foliis. 
Breyn. Prodr. 1. p.205 
Carpuvs Xeranthemos. — Ra. ‘Suppl. 198. 
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_ The beauty of the flowers, in the general sense of the 
Word, consists in the whole genus in the rays of the Calyx, 
Which are persistent and variously coloured. In the pre- 
‘ent species the rays’are of a bright crimson, especially os 
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