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PLATE. CCCLXXXVII. 
XERANTHEMUM RIGIDUM. 
Rigid-leaved Eternal Flower. 
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CLASS XIX: ORDER II. 
. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united, 
Superfluous 
Pointals. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
pus setaceus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus ; 
Empalement tiled, rayed; the ray co- 
radio colorato. 
RecertTacutum paleaceum, aut nudum, Pap- | 
loured. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
XERANTHEMUM, floribus parvis paniculatis ; 
XERANTHEMUM, with small paniculated 
foliis villosis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis 
iridit 
flowers; and hairy linear-lanced sharp- 
pointed green leaves. 
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- Descriptio. Suffrutex, ramulis teretibus, subflexuosis, villosis. Folia, superiora remotiora, alterna, 
amplexicaulia, lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, canaliculata, rigida, villosa, viridia, superne patula. 
Flores paniculati, terminales, parvi in hoc genere, et inconspicui. Pedunculi lanuginoso-villosi, 
bracteati. Calyces argentei. Corollule flavicantes. 
e REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. ‘ 
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1. A scale of the empalement. 
2. One of the hermaphrodite florets magnified. 
3. The chives and pointal. 
4. The receptacle. 
Tue plant here delineated is by no means a conspicuous one ; nevertheless, as it is a genuine member 
a : .  f a favourite genus, and at the same time a new species, and almost the last of its fine family we 
_ ‘shall be able to present to our readers, it cannot fail to be acceptable to them. 
‘The present species is a weak shrubby plant, flowers freely, and succeeds with the treatment of the 
other eternal flowers, and is propagated in the same manner: and was lately raised from Cape seeds at 
our never-failing source of rare plants, the choice collection of G, Hibbert, esq. where the figure 
here given was made in May last. : 
__It is very closely allied to X. argenteum of our 327th plate, which is the X. paniculatum of 
Recerracce chafty, or naked. Feather bristly. 
