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.