Q4.3 
GNAPHALIUM congestum. 
Lamarck’s Everlasting. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nai. ord. CoryMBirern. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. I. Receptaculum 
nudum. Semen papposum. Flores flosculosis 
GNAPHALIUM. Supra fol. 240. 
Div. Fruticosa Argyrocoma. 
'G. congestum, fruticosum, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, supernd rugoso-scabris, 
subtiis tomentosis, corymbo glomerato simplici. Lamarck encyc. 2. 732. 
Gnaphalium congestum. ‘Vill. sp. pl. 3. 1852. 
Gnaphalium tricostatum. Thunb. prod. 157. 
Frutex nunc 3-pedalis, nudiusculus, ramosus: rami teretes, land araneos& 
albicantes. Fol. sparsa, semiamplexicaulia, patentissima, remotiuscula at plus 
rimim longiora intervallis, uncialia v. ultra, lineari-lanceolata, angusta, cus- 
pidata, supra obscuré vtridia, rugosa, immerse 3-nervia, convexa margine 
deflexo, subtiis land densé arancosd candicantia.. Flores terminales, nume- 
Osi, vx piso majores, paniculato-cymosi, pedunculo communi longo albo- 
lanato subaphyllo v. distantissimé folioso. Cal. albo-purpureus, scariosus ; 
foliolis ungue viridi extis lanato, lamind utrinque glabra nitente; exterioribus 
ovato-oblongis, obtusis, interioribus angustioribus, ungue longo, lamina parvd 
omnind alba, dorso lanatd: aliis paucis in disco vage irrepentibus et flos- 
culis ad instar palearum se commiscentibus, moddgue omnind lanceolatis. 
Flosculi discoidei cylindracei, flavi, subguinquedentati. Germ. glabrum, 
3-plo brevius flosculo, peripherie flecum, centri rectum: pappus plumosus, 
multiradiatus, albus,’ equans vel subsuperans flosculos: stig. non exserta. 
Pollen aureo-micans, grumosum, orijficium floscult cumulans. Recept. mem 
branoso-denticulatum. ; 
Though we do not find this plant in either edition of the 
Hortus Kewensis, it is proved bya specimen in the Bank- 
sian Herbarium to have flowered at Kew in 1793; and had 
been most probably introduced by Mr. Masson, from the 
Cape of Good Hope, where it is indigenous. The specific 
name has been suggested either by a dried sample, where 
the inflorescence has been compressed in preserving it, or 
from one that had been gathered in an early stage, for, ina 
later, the flowers are by no means disposed in a manner to 
answer to the epithet congestus (crowded). 
A branching and rather naked shrub, in the plants we 
have seen not exceeding three feet: branches round, arane- 
ously woolled, white. Leaves scattered in every direction, 
halfstemclasping, outspread, rather wideset but longer than 
