Schaenia
(named in honour of Dr. Schaen, a botanist). ORD. Compositae. A monotypic genus, differing from Helichrysum chiefly in the flat achenes of the circumference. The species is an erect, corymbosely-branched, scabrous-pubescent or more or less cottony-woolly, greenhouse annual. It requires culture similar to that recommended for Helichrysum. S. Cassiniana (Cassini's). fl.-heads yellow, disposed in a loose, terminal corymb; outer involucral bracts usually brown, the radiating laminae of the inner bracts white or pink. April. i. lanceolate or linear, or the lower ones oblong-spathulate, the longest above 2in., the upper ones few and small. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Australia, 1845. (L. J. F. 149; B. M. 4650 and F. d. S. 630, under name of S. oppositifolia.)