OF FERNANDO PO. 18 
angustiores late unguiculate, supra unguem purpurez. Receptaculum 
convexiusculum, amplum, alveolatum. | F/osculi numerosissimi. Pap- 
pus paucisetosus. Corolla anguste tubulosa. Achenium minimum 
glabriusculum. 
A noble species, allied to H. fatidum, but differing in the dense foliage, 
leaves less broad at the base, different form of inflorescence, which is more 
paniculate than corymbose, and much larger capitula. 
5. Helichrysum (Xerochlena) foetidum, Cass. ; A. Rich. Flor. Abyss. 1. 
426. 
Hab. Ad Clarence Peak, alt. 10,000 ped. (fl. April.) 
An extremely variable plant, native of Abyssinia, South Africa, Mada- 
gascar, and Mauritius, varying in breadth and tomentum of foliage, some- 
what in size of the capitula, and much in their colour, from white to deep 
golden yellow. 
6. Helichrysum (Chionostemma?) chrysocoma, C. S. Schultz ; A. Rich. 
Flor. Abyss. i. 424. Var. angustifolium, gracile, foliis anguste lanceo- 
latis acuminatis marginibus revolutis tomentosis v. superne glabratis ; 
pappi setis albis. 
Hab. Clarence Peak, alt. 10,000 ped. (fl. April.) Herba 4-pedalis. 
I have examined several authentically named Abyssinian specimens of 
this plant, which present great variations in tomentum and breadth of fo- 
liage. The present differs from all in being rather more glabrous and sleu- 
der, and smaller in foliage. The inflorescence, capitula, involucres, and 
florets are identical in all. The receptacle in all is covered with conical 
subulate elongate dark-yellow rigid bodies, that are persistent after the 
florets have fallen away. They are not noticed in A. Richard’s work ; 
these would refer this species to DeCandolle’s section Chionostemma, were 
it not that the setze of the pappus are quite free at the base. Richard 
describes the pappus as ferruginous, but it is white in all the Abyssinian 
specimens I have examined of Schimper’s, and in the Fernando Po ones 
also. 
7. Helichrysum (Achyrocline) Hochstetteri, C. H. Schultz; A. Rich. 
Flor. Abyss. 1. 429. 
Hab. Clarence Peak, alt. 8500 ped. (fl. Jan.) Herba 2-3-pedalis. 
Mr. Mann's specimens are not a full flower, but the small size, great 
number and form of the capitula, the involucra] scales, habit, tomentum, 
foliage and winged stems, leave no room to doubt that the present is 
identical with the Abyssinian plant, of which I have compared many spe- 
eimens. The bruised capitula of the Abyssinian plant are aromatic, a 
character I do not observe in the Fernando Po, which are vrobably either 
too young, or, owing to the damp climate, deficient in aroma. 
8. Helichrysum (Chionostemma ?) globosum, C. H. Schultz; A. Rich. 
Flor, Abyss. i. 425. 
Hab. Clarence Peak, alt. 10,000 ped. 
Apparently identical with the Abyssinian plant. 
