Receptaculum paleaceum aut nudum. Pappus setaceus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus: radio colorato.
Receptacle chaffy, or naked. Feather bristly, Empalement tiled, rayed: the ray coloured.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Xeranthemum foliis undulatis, lanatis, apice reflexis: floribus parvis, odoratis, terminalibus: radiis calycis exterioribus rubris: radio interiore albo.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Xeranthemum with waved woolly leaves reflexed at the point: flowers small, sweet-scented and terminal: the outer rays of the empalement red, the inner one white.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A scale from the outer ray of the empalement.
2. A scale from the inner ray.
3. A flower of the disk.