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Planta sesquimeiralis ex scheda cl. detectoris. Folia 3:0-4°0 cm. 
long., 0°3-0°5 em. raro usque ad 0-7 cm. lat. | Corymbi circiter 
8-0 em. diam. Pedunculi modice 0°5-1'5 cm. long., araneosi. 
Involucra 1:0 em. long.; phylla extima 0:4-0°6 em. interiora fere 
1:0 em. long., intima imminuta, lineari-oblonga, 0-4 cm. long., 
vix O11 em. lat. Corolle 0°38 em. long. Antherarum caude 
simplices. Achsnia adhuc valde cruda 0°05 em. long. Pappus 
vix O-4 em. long. 
Near Helichrysum elegantissimum, DC., which has broader 
leaves, larger heads arranged only a few together on longer 
peduncles, all the florets hermaphrodite, pubescent achenes, &c. 
Hericurysum Mevert-Jonannis, Engl. 
Tropical East Africa; Rev. W. E. Taylor. 
H. arerrantuum, O. Hoffm. 
Mt. Kenia, 10,000 feet ; H. J. Mackinder, 1899. 
H. (Argyreia § Spherocephala) AsLBO-BRUNNEUM, Sp. DOV. 
Ascendens, parvum, caule abundanter folioso una cum foliis 
dense araneoso-tomentosis, foliis sessilibus oblongis obtusis 
membranaceis inferioribus imbricatis summis sparsis necnon 
angustioribus, capitulis mediocribus ad apicem caulis sepius ad 
6-10 arcte congestis circa 70-flosculosis flosculis omnibus herma- 
phroditis, involucri subglobosi circa 8-seriatis phyllis appen dicibus 
haud radiantibus ovato-oblongis sursum brunueis deorsum albis 
exterioribus obtuse acutis quam interiora late obtusa paullo 
brevioribus intimis spathulato-oblongis necnon omnino albis, 
receptaculo plano foveolato, acheeniis glabris, pappi setis corollas 
paullo excedentibus scabriusculis sursum paullulum incrassatis 
albis. 
Hab. Cape Colony, Kondveld Mountain near Murraysburg 
W. Tyson, 1879, no. 98. 
Planta fere 200 em. attingens, sepius vero circa 10:0 em. vel 
minus. Folia 15-20 em. long., 0°6-0°8 cm. lat., summa revera 
usque ad 0°3 cm. angustata. Capitulorum glomerulus nec ultra 
2°0 cm. diam. Involucri 0°8 em. long. phylla exteriora 0°5 cm. 
long. vix 0-2 em. lat.; interiora 0°6 em. long. 0°22 cm. lat. ; 
intima 0°13 cm. lat. Corolla 0°33 cm. long. Antherarum caude 
attenuate, simplices. Achenia adhuc cruda 0:06 cm. long. ; 
papp! sete 0°4 cm. long. 
The narrower firmer brown-tipped involucral leaves, the 
