the outside, on which acount, their brilliancy is seen to the — 
greatest advantage before the flower is fully expanded. 
But those who have seen the flowers of ELicurysum eximiwm 
will hardly agree with Breynius in calling it the Queen of 
all syngenesious plants, an expression by which he pro- 
bably meant to flatter Mynheer Huyprexoorer, who first 
introduced it into the European gardens. As an everlasting 
flower however, for dried bouquets, it certainly stands 
very high. The shrub is very remarkable too for its foli- 
age, if foliage it can be called, which Linnavs himself 
was at a loss whether he should call branchlets or leaves ; 
we should consider them, as the former, clothed with 
minute imbricated leaves. ‘The whole of the stems are 
covered with a white cottony tomentum. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Introduced in 1789. 
Flowers all the Summer. Requires to be kept in the most 
airy part of the greenhouse, being, like all cottony plants, — 
very liable to be injured by damps. 
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