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47. COMPOSITACEJE. 
green at first in the middle, then chestnut-brown edged with 
purple, and with pale colourless membranous plicate or denti- 
culate tips and borders. Florets all 5-cleft fertile, the female 
in 2 or 8 rows. Pappus simply rough or scabrous throughout 
with short equal pubescence, not clavate, not longer than the 
fl. Kecept. slightly convex papulose. Ach. chestnut-brown 
elliptic-oblong sprinkled with erect glittering points. 
3. H. melanophthaemum (Lowe). Propeta i. e. Perpetua. 
Grey-w. tomentose except the heads ; 1. elongato-lanceolate 
attenuate at both ends 3^-4 times as long as broad (including 
the petiole) closely but not thickly cottony-tomentose 1 -nerved 
very entire ; cyme large terminal compound many-fid. (50- 
100) loosely or distinctly branched but mostly subglobose or 
hemispherical dense compact and crowded ; heads rather large 
hemispherical broader than long freely and distinctly stalked 
smooth, not shining, dead snow-w. or rarely partly purplish 
or crimson, the disk atropurpureous in fl., dark brown or black 
before and after ; scales regularly imbricate lax squarrose finally 
subradiant, altogether and permanently opake snow-w. and 
scarious without pale tips or edges, the lower and middle 
broadly ovate mostly obtuse entire, the innermost oblong acute 
or undulato-plicate and sublaceratelv toothed. — DC. ! vi. 177; 
Lowe in Hook. J. of Dot. i. 35. Gnaphaliwn melanophthalmum 
Lowe Prim. 29. EUclirysum melaleucum Reielib. in Foil's 
List in Ilook. J. of Bot. i. 19. Gnaphalium rupestre Sol. ! MS. 
in BH. : Bucli ! 194. no. 254 (not Batin.). — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 
1, 2, 3, 4, c ; PS. reg. 1, 4, E; GD. reg. 1, rr or A. Sea dill's, 
rocky sides of all the principal ravines and craggy summits 
everywhere in Mad. but principally in the North where it fills 
the whole air along the sea-clifls with its honey-like perfume 
when the sun shines hot. In PS. and GD. confined to the sea 
cliffs and highest inland peaks. Apr.-Aug. — Habit like the 
last, but with much more thinly tomentose and less decidedly 
snow-w. foliage. A fine and handsome low shr. corvmbosely 
branched 2 or 3 ft. high. Flowering branches corymbose 
loosely ascending snow-w. cottony, thickly leafy downwards 
and clothed at the base with the withered 1. of the preceding 
year. L. 1-2 in. long, 3-4 lines broad much attenuated into 
the petiole, shortly and closely but less thickly tomentose than 
in //. Monizii and grey rather than snow-w. Cymes large 
terminal lax or spreading many-fld. rising quite above the h, 
each composed of numerous smaller cymes, somewhat loosely 
branched, branches and ped. distinct snow-w. tomentose. Fl. 
odoriferous like honey. Heads snow-w. quite smooth not 
shining, globose in bud, then hemispherical, finally subradiant, 
8-4 lines in diam. ; the disk blackish. Florets all 5-cleft 
