Helichryswm.] LXXU1. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 347 
few minute teeth. Achenes small, oblong, covered with small sessile 
glands, glabrous. Pappus scabrid. Florets all 3. 
South Central. Batoka Country, Dr. Kirk ! Mashona Country, 7. Baines! 
Occurs also south of the Tropic. 
A single specimen in Hb. Kew, very young from Little Fish Bay, West Coast, 
15°. lat., collected by I. H. B. Thwaites, may belong to this species. 
2, H. rosulatum, 0. § H. Short, stout, perennial, procumbent, 
with white tomentose stems 13 in. high, suffruticose at base ; ascend- 
ing stems simple or branched at base, terete. Leaves spathulate- 
oblong, obtuse, emarginate, slightly narrowed at the sessile base, coria- 
ceous, glabrous, with 3-5 depressed veins above, appressedly velutinous 
and milk-white beneath, crowded. at base of branches, 4-# in. long by 
#-1%; in. wide, upper smaller ; margins entire, finely revolute. Capitula 
narrowly campanulate, 6—7-flowered, 2 in. long, sessile, many together 
in a subglobular head 3-2 in. diam., leafy at the base. Scales of the 
involucre pauciseriate, slightly purplish near tip, scarious with green 
midrib below; inner linear slightly dilated above, obtuse, glabrous ; 
outer similar but smaller, thinly cottony outside. Florets all hermaph- 
rodite. Achenes very nearly glabrous. 
Mile Land. Shores of the Red Sea, Nimmo ! 
3. H. Nimmoanum, 0. & H. Suffruticose, branched ; branches 
terete, albido-tomentellous above, glabrescent, 8 in. or more long. 
ves narrowly elliptic or ovate, subacute or subobtuse, apiculate, 
Somewhat narrowed at the base, shortly petiolate, entire, indistinctly 
Pinnate-veined, white-tomentellous especially beneath, 4-1} in. long by 
= In. wide; petiole 3-1 in. long. Capitula oblong, 8-10-flowered, 
in. long on very short pedicels, in moderately dense branched termi- 
nal corymbs 1-23 in. diam. Scales of the involucre pluri- (sub 4-) 
Seriate, . imbricate, unequal, glabrous, straw-coloured; inner linear- 
oblong, obtuse, with scarious margins ; outer successively shorter and 
more elliptic. Receptacle naked. Florets all hermaphrodite. Achenes 
oblong minutely glandular. 
Mile Land. Shores of the Red Sea, Nimmo! 
c 4. H. auriculatum, Less. ; DO. Prodr. vi. p. 209. Herbaceous (?). 
Tanches terete, albido-lanate, with sparse foliage. Leaves obovate, ob- 
"se, mucronulate, narrowed towards the base, sessile or lower shortly 
Petioled, subamplexicaul, tomentose especially beneath, subentire or 
Taptlate, 1-1} in. long by 4-2 in. wide. Capitula widely campanu- 
te, } in, long, many-flowered, on short unequal pedicels, in dense 
Blobose or corymbose terminal clusters 11-24 in. wide. Scales of the 
Involucre pluri- (38-4-) seriate, imbricate, pale, sometimes mucronulate ; 
imnermost spathulate, obtuse, glabrous; intermediate ovate or ovate- 
ale narrowed to base, glabrous, successively shorter; outer 
1 Dtical, obtuse, short, woolly at back outside. Receptacle naked. 
mints 2 hermaphrodite. Achenes glabrous. Pappus coherent in 
ute ring, barbate. 
ee Guinea. (Congo, Barton! : ' 
Zamb. Distr. Manganja Hills, Dr. Meller! Shire, Dr. Stewart ! 
