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eulatis, involueri glabri campanulati bracteis imbricatis albis obtusis dorso 
convexis, receptaculi paleis lanceolatis, pappi setis albidis flori æqui- 
longis. 
An herbaceous perennial, with slender terete stems, clothed 
with short white cottony pubescence. Leaves distant, all re- 
flexed, 1-3 in. long, 1-nerved, cordate at the base and clasping 
the stem, rugose, dull green, clothed with white cottony pubes- 
cence like that of the stem on both surfaces. Heads very nume- 
rous, arranged in dense terminal corymbose panicles 1-23 in. 
in diam.; peduncles at most as long as the capitula. Involucre 
glabrous, 4. in. long; bracts 3-4-seriate, oblong, obtuse, white, 
glossy, the outer rows gradually shorter. Pales of the receptacle 
as long as the achene. Achene cylindrical, glabrous. Corolla 
and pappus 4 in. long.— Central Madagascar, Baron 1045! 
Allied to H. fulvescens, DC. 
HELICHRYSUM PATULUM, n. sp. 
Fruticosum, ramulis foliisque persistenter albido-tomentosis, foliis pa- 
tulis cordato-amplexicaulibus parvis ovatis integris mucronatis, capitulis 
multifloris dense corymboso-paniculatis pedicellis brevissimis, involucri 
campanulati bracteis 3-4-seriatis obtusis deorsum adpressis pilosis sursum 
citrinis glabris patulis, receptaculi paleis magnis lanceolatis, pappi setis 
flori æquilongis. 
A much-branched erect shrub, with the slender branchlets and 
leaves on both sides densely matted with persistent whitish 
tomentum. Leaves sessile, crowded, especially on the flowerless 
branches, spreading or deflexed, 4-3 in. long, strongly amplexi- 
caul, minutely mucronate, only the midrib visible. Heads in 
dense corymbose panicles 14-3 in. broad, with very short pedicels. 
Flowers 30 or more in ahead. Jnvolucre campanulate, j in. 
long and broad, the bracts dull-coloured and pilose downwards, 
all with obtuse spreading glabrous pale yellow tips. Scales of 
the receptacle lanceolate, rigid, acute, nearly as long as the 
flowers.—Central Madagascar, Baron 1877! A near ally of 
H. Bojerianum, DC. Prod. vi. 208. d 
HELICHRYSUM AMPLEXICAULE, D. sp. 
Fruticosum, ramulis foliisque dense persistenter albo-incanis, foliis 
parvis cordato-amplexicaulibus ovatis acutis parce bullatis patulis vel 
deflexis, capitulis multifloris multis dense corymboso-paniculatis pedi- 
cellis brevissimis, involucri campanulati bracteis multiseriatis adpressis 
obtusis citrinis, receptaculi paleis magnis lanceolatis, pappi setis flori 
wquilongis. 
