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ELYCHRISUM STHHELINA. 
Stehelina-like Eternal-flower. 
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CLASS XIX. ORDER II. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous 
Polygamy. 
; ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
RecerTacutum nudum, ~-Pappus pilosus, vel Recepracte naked, Down hairy, or feathery. 
plumosus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus, Empalement imbricated, rayed, with the 
radio colorato. ray coloured. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Etycurisum, fruticosum, erectum, foliis Etycurisum, shrubby, erect, with leaves 
oblongo-lanceolatis basi attenuatis sericeis, oblong-lanced attenuated at the base and 
pedunculis nudis unifloris terminalibus, silky, and terminal naked one-flowered 
Willd. Sp. Pi. 3. 1910. peduncles, 
XERANTHEMUM (Stehelina) pedunculis terminalibus exertis nudis unifloris, foliis lanceolatis tomen- 
tosis. Syst. Veg. 624. 
X ERANTHEMUM foliis lanceolato-oblongis carinatis lanatis, caule erecto. Thunb. Prod, 153. . 
Oss. is lignosus, teper, paniculato-ramosus, ut tota herba albo-tomentosus. Pedunculi longi 
terminales, /JVilld.1.c 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A flower cut open. 
2. An hermaphrodite floret with its down. 
3. The same without the down, 
4. The same spread open. 
5. The seed-bud and pointal, with the sammit detached and magnified. 
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In the last volume of Willdenow’s Species Plantarum, containing the great class Syngenesia, are 
found many valuable botanical alterations and amendments, respecting the division and distribution 
of the genera and species ; and amongst others, we find the Linnzan genus Xeranthemum, and even 
its species the annuum, with its supposed variety the inapertum, divided and arranged exactly after 
the manner proposed in our account of X. bracteatum (Plate 375), now Elychrisam bracteatum : 
those few species only being now called Xeranthema which have a squamous receptacle: viz. the 
annuum, and inapertum, of European origin; and the orientale, a native of Armenia. 
The plant here depicted was drawn from a living specimen in the Clapham collection, last December, 
where at first it only threw up one flower-stalk ; but it has since become stronger, and shows a peduncle 
from the end of almost every branch. 
Although this species comes nearer Elychrisum in its generic characters than to any other genus, 
Gnaphalium not excepted, yet still we cannot help remarking, how much it recedes from the external 
appearance of most of its congeners, in being quite destitute of radiating scales. 
ae a | green-house plant, a native of the Cape, and is propagated by cuttings; but is not at pre- 
Sent in any coe. 28 we are acquainted with, — a. Faber: a, 
