GNAPHALIUM AND XERANTHEMUM. 555 
voyagers to the Cape of Good Hope ; but, although it has 
been so long known to botanists, there are few plants that 
have been less understood than it. The female florets being 
five-toothed and tubular, and the naked slender seta3 at the 
base of the anthers, together with the uniformity of the 
pappus in both the male and female florets, as well as the 
naked conical receptacle, will serve at once to distinguish it. 
This genus agrees in several respects with Xeranthemum. 
The name is derived from (potzm?^ splendidus, and KOf^ot, coma, 
and is intended to denote its brilliant coloured involucrum. 
CARPHOLOMA. 
Involucrum oblongura, cylindraceum, imbricatum, lana- 
tum, nec scariosum, nec radiatum : squamis adpressis, apice 
spinosis, patulis. Receptaculum planum, in peripheria sola 
paleis distinctis setaceis instructum. Flosculi omnes herma- 
phroditi, tubulosi, 5-dentati. AnthertE basi bisetae : setis 
puberulis. Stigma bipartitum : laciniis angustis, apice in- 
crassatis truncatisque. Pappus pilosus, serrulatus : radiis 
basi fasciculatim connexis. 
Frutex (Africse australis) erectus, rigidus, ramosissimus, 
niveo-lanatus. Folia Juscicidata, brevia, teretiuscula, oh- 
tusa, Flores terminales^ solitarii, purpurascentes. 
1. C, rigidum. 
Hah, in Promontorio Bonae Spei. Lahillardiere. h. (v. 
s. sp. in Herb. Lamb.) 
This is a very distinct and well-marked genus, on account 
of its spinose, truncate involucrum, which is neither scariose 
nor coloured, and flat receptacle, whose circumference is 
furnished with several slender paleae. The resemblance be- 
tween the involucrum of our plant and that of the true 
