546 CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION OF 
pappus, whose rays are united for a considerable way above 
the base, hke that of Carlina, as we have already remarked^ 
I have placed at the end of the species J, imhricatum and 
canescens, as they appear to form the link between Astelma 
and the following genus. 
APHELEXIS. 
Xeranthemi sp. Linn, 
Elichrysi sp. Willd, 
Involucrum carapanulatum, laxe imbricatum, scariosum, 
coloratura, longe radiatum. Receptaculum planum, crebre 
paleaceum : paleis rigidis, mucronatis, simplicibus, aut bi- 
tripartitisve. Flosculi omnes hermaphroditi, tubulosi, 5- 
dentati. Antherce basi biplumatae. Stigma bipartitum : laci- 
niis recurvatis, apice incrassatis truncatisque. Pajppi radiis 
plumosis, basi connexis. 
Suffrutices (Afric£e australis) ramosiss'imi. Rami vir- 
gati, filvfbrmes, uniflori niveo-lanati. Folia acerosa, sup?d 
sulco exarata, nudiuscula^ basi dilatata, septus imhricata. 
Flores solitarii, mag7ii, nivei, purpurei v. sidphurei, 
1. A. sesamoides, foliis omnibus trigonis adpressis, flori- 
bus sessilibus, involucri squamis ovato-lanceolatis acutis, 
paleis linearibus simplicibus. 
Xeranthemum sesamoides, Linn. Sp. PI. 1203 — Thunb. Prod. 152. 
Elichrysum sesamoides, Willd. Sp. PI. 3. p. 1909. 
/3 floribus purpureis. 
Hab. ad Promontorium Bonae Spei. Thunberg, Massm, 
Niven, E. Lambert^ Joannes Roxburgh, hj. (v. v. c. et 
s. sp. eteifi'm Herb. Lamb.) 
Rami virgati, filiformes. Flores nivei^ maximi. 
A. fascimlata^ foliis inferioribus fdiformibus patuli? ; 
