54^ CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION OF 
AsTELMA, Brown. 
Gnaphalii et Xeranthemi sp. Linn, 
Elichrysi sp. Willd, 
Involucrum imbricatum, scariosum, coloratum, connivens 
V. radians. Receptaculum convexum, favosum v. subpalea- 
tum. Flosculi omnes hermaphroditi, tubulosi, 5-dentati. 
Antlterce basi biplumatse. Stigma bipartitum : laciniis li- 
nearUiiigulatis, obtusis. Pappus radiis plumosis, inferne 
connatis. 
Frutices (Africse australis) deiise niveo-Ianati. Folia al- 
terna, sessilia, integerrima^ plana. Flores terminales, so^ 
litarii v. corymhosi, magni, speciosi, nivei v. purpurea- 
coccinei, ant aurei. 
* Involucris connlventibus. 
3. A. eccimium, foliis ovatis acutis, corymbo simplici mul- 
tifloro, involucris globosis : squamis ovalibus obtusissirnis. 
Astelma eximium, Brown in Bot, Reg. t. 53?- 
Gnaphalium eximium, Linn. Mant. 573. — Willd. Sp. PI. 3. p. 1849. 
Hab. in Promontorio Bonse Spei. Edmundus Lavtbert, 
Niven, Joannes Roxburgh. b« (v. v. c. et s. sp. in Herb. 
Lamb.) 
Involucra globosa, purpureo-coccinea, nitida. Recepta^ 
culum favosum. 
This plant, Mr Lambert informs me, flowered for tbe 
first time in England, at Mr Lee''s, Hammersmith, in the 
year 1794. 
% A. milleflorum, foliis ovato-lanceolatis mucronatis, co- 
rymbis compositis patentissimis, involucris oblongis : squa- 
mis oblongis apice rotundatis. 
Gnaphalium milleflorum, Linn, Suppl. 362, — Thunb, Prod. 152. — 
Willd. Sp. PI. 3. p. 1860. 
