256 Composita—Rhodanthe. 
28. RHODANTHE (Acroclinium). 
Elegant little annuals with everlasting flower-heads. In- 
volucral scales scarious, outer ones sessile, inner clawed, coloured 
and petaloid. Receptacle naked; florets all tubular and simi- 
lar. Achenes villous, not beaked; pappus feathery, in asingle 
row. The two or three species here included are Australian. 
Name from fcdor, a rose, and dvOos, a flower, in allusion to the 
colour of the flower-heads. 
It is worthy of remark that here, as in most other ‘ Ever- 
lasting Flowers’ belonging to this order, the coloured conspicu- 
ous and lasting part is the involucre. 
1. R. Manglésii.—From a foot to 18 inches high, with smooth 
glaucous oblong entire perfoliate leaves and a branching inflor- 
escence. Outer bracts silvery. Flower-heads pedunculate, 
delicate rose-pink with a yellow centre. The variety maculri/u 
has a dark band around the disk; and élba has all the bracts 
of a silvery white. A. atrosanguineu has purple florets and 
is otherwise very distinct. 
2. R. rosea, syn. Aeroclinium rdsewm.—This species is 
perhaps even handsomer than the preceding. ‘It is a more 
erect plant, from 1 to 2 feet high, having linear acute leaves 
and larger solitary terminal flower-heads. Outer bracts brown, 
inner pink or white; florets yellow. 
29, WAITZIA (Mérna). 
Annuals of less graceful habit than those in the last. genus, 
but almost identical in floral characters, the main difference 
being in the achenes, which terminate in a slender beak 
bearing the pappus. Involucral bracts all coloured, gradually 
passing from small sessile outer ones to those with a slender 
claw and large limb. There are about six species, all from 
Australia. This genus was named in honour of a German 
botanist. 
1. W. corymbosa, syn. W. acwmindta.— An erect and 
branching plant clothed with a rough pubescence. Leaves 
linear, with revolute marvins clasping the stem. Flower-heads 
yellow or pink, in dense terminal corymbs. Involucral bracts 
with long acuminate points, usually with a few straggling 
ones below the head. ‘Terminal beak much longer than the 
uchene. 
