PLATE DLXI. 



XERANTHEMUM 



FRAGRANS 



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Fragrant Xeranthemum. 





CLASS XIX 



ORDER II 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIC SUPERFLUA. Tips united Superfluous. 



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ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Receptasulum paleareum aut nudum. Pap- 

 pus setaceus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus : 



radio colorato. 



Receptacle chaffy, or naked. Feather bristly 



Empalement tiled, rayed 

 loured. 



the 



ray co- 





SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Xeranthemum fbliis undulatis, lanatis, apice 

 reflexis: floribus parvis, odoratis, termi- 

 nalibus : radiis calycis exterioribus rubris : 

 radio interiore albo. 



Habitat ad Caput Bona: Spei. 



Xeranthemum with waved woolly leaves re- 

 flexed at the point : flowers small, sweet- 

 scented and terminal : the outer rays of the 

 empalement red, the inner one white. 



Good 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A scale from the outer ray of the empalement 



2. A scale from the inner ray. 



3. A flower of the disk. 



As fra- 



T HIS link Xeranthemum U . native of eh. Cape, perfectly new, and very sweet-scented As fr„. 



: ance ,s very unusual ,„ thls fine tribe of plants, we have c„ tha, acconn, considered Ha g o^ spe 

 • tctule I, was mtroduced to the Clapham gardens about the year 18 03 ; and as we ha el. sin 

 it s.nce that penod, we are inclined to think i. is not at present in this country n A 7, f 



A B r,amhprf ocn w <* <u , a n . country. In the herbarium of 



A. B. Lambert, esq. we found a fine native specimen of an unnamed species very much resembling our 

 piant, but with a profusion of flowers-a habit which ours would in ,11 „ ^ ™ resembJin g our 

 ,oon as it had been familiarized to th, *±- * .Jl ^ * aU Proba01 ^ have ™»™ d as 



